Upstate New York greats include U.S. Supreme Court justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and, for four undergraduate years at Cornell, Ruth Bader of Brooklyn, who became Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a U.S. Supreme Court justice and “Notorious RBG.”
Influencing and connecting them was Robert E. Cushman, constitutional scholar and government professor at Cornell University. Cushman was a Jackson contact and friend. And Cushman was RBG’s most influential teacher—he introduced her to law and to civil liberties and urged her to become a lawyer.
Speakers—
Irin Carmon, journalist and co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Q. Barrett, Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor at St. John's University and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center
A book signing for both the adult and young adult versions of Carmon's Notorious RBG and Jackson's That Man (edited by Barrett) will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm, Reg Lenna Center for the Arts
All Things Equal - The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This one-woman show highlights the great and compassionate icon of straight-thinking American justice RBG who is not only “notorious” but victorious as she takes a stand for ordinary people facing the many challenges of a changing world.
This is the final show of the successful 7-month touring production.
Tickets are on sale through the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts. You can access their website through the button below.
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Since 2001, the Robert H. Jackson Center has preserved the values embodied in the life and works of Robert H. Jackson, who served as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Chief U.S. Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Through programs, presentations, exhibits, media, internships, and scholarship, the Center seeks to demonstrate to current and future generations the relevance and applicability of Justice Jackson’s ideas and writings. The Center provides educational content on the United States Constitution and Supreme Court, civil rights, the legacy of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and international human rights, and the rule of law. During his illustrious career, Justice Jackson addressed these subjects, and the Center recognizes his thinking remains relevant today.
