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  First Edition of Sarah Deer's The Beginning and End of Rape; inscribed by Judge Myron H. Bright to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  DEER, Sarah [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] [Judge Myron H. Bright].

  The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America.

  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

  First edition of this collection of powerful essays. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Judge Myron H. Bright on the title page to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a protector of civil rights for all. From her friend, Judge Myron H. Bright." In 2004, Judge Bright accompanied U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her husband Martin Ginsburg as Juris in Residence. 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 impor...

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