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  First Edition of Roger Langley and Richard C. Levy's Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis; from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  LANGLEY, Roger; Richard C. Levy [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

  Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis.

  New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.

  First edition of this work about the neglected subject of intra-marital assault. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a typed letter signed to her, folded and paper clipped to the front free endpaper. American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.”, a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination, voting rights, and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia (1996) which struck down the Virginia Military Institute�...

  Price: $4,800.00     Item Number: 147666

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