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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Exclusive to Slate Plus members, Dahlia Lithwick’s January interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the women of Harvard Law School’s class of 1959. 

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Dahlia Lithwick.

0:07.2

Today we have a preview of the extended interview I did with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Class of RBG special series that you heard last week.

0:15.3

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0:19.1

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0:21.8

segments with Mark Joseph Stern on future Amicus episodes, and you won't hear any more ads on

0:27.1

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0:32.7

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0:38.5

Here's a preview of the full interview with Justice Ginsburg.

0:46.1

You're all arriving at Harvard in 1956.

0:49.5

Did you even see women when you were first sort of moving in and settling in and walking around?

0:56.3

Or was it just a sea of men?

0:57.8

There were two women in my section, just Trudy and Jenny Davis later, Norton.

1:09.5

So when I went to class, there were the two other women in the class,

1:15.0

and then I think our sexual was something like 125. But it was a jump up from Marty's class.

1:22.0

There were five women in his class. There were more of the first year that they took women. And did they deliberately

1:31.8

divide you into different sections? Like did they want to have one or two women? Yeah, and let's see,

1:38.8

there were nine of us, so they had at least two in every section. One of the things that was interesting, I think it was Carol who said in her interview

1:49.6

that we were all oddities was the word she used.

1:54.3

You know, we were all sort of outliers.

1:56.9

And I think initially when we started this project, we thought that you'd all clump together and be like a pack.

2:04.6

And I was remembering when I started at Stanford Law School, you know, in 1992, all the women were just in a pack.

2:11.0

But it doesn't seem as though that necessarily organically happened.

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