St. John’s Law Review; “One Nation Indivisible”: Unnamed Human Rights in the United States.
BLACK, Charles L..
St. John’s Law Review; “One Nation Indivisible”: Unnamed Human Rights in the United States.
Winter 1991 Offprint of the St. John's Law Review Containing Charles L. Black, Jr.'s "One Nation Indivisible"; Inscribed by Him to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
St. John's University, New York: St. John's Law Review, 1991.
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Original Winter 1991 offprint of the St. John’s Law Review containing Charles L. Black, Jr.’s “One Nation Indivisible”: Unnamed Human Rights in the United States. Octavo, original wrappers, St. John’s Law Review Volume 65, Winter 1991, Number 1. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, “For the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with my best wishes for her happiness and for her success in her work. Sincerely Charles Black, Columbia Law School 10 October, 1993.” The recipient, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer and jurist, 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’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000) in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. In near fine condition with toning to the front panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A unique piece of history.
Charles L. Black, Jr. (1915–2001) was a prominent American constitutional scholar whose work significantly shaped twentieth-century legal thought. A longtime professor at Yale Law School and later at Columbia Law School, Black was widely respected for his influential writings on constitutional structure, judicial review, and the role of the Supreme Court. He is particularly noted for assisting Justice Thurgood Marshall in preparing the brief that contributed to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a case that fundamentally reshaped constitutional law and civil rights jurisprudence in the United States.
