One year after her death, the book of the iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in collaboration with Wendy Williams and Mary Hartnett, is being published with a preface for the Greek edition by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
This is a witty, captivating, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches by a woman who had a strong and long-lasting impact on law, women's rights, minority rights, and popular culture.
In the book My Own Words, Justice Ginsburg expresses her thoughts on a wide range of topics, from gender equality and the functioning of justice to Jewish identity, law, and lawyers in opera, and the utilization of comparative studies of foreign legal systems for interpreting the U.S. Constitution.
Throughout her life, Justice Ginsburg was a very prolific writer and speaker. The selection of the texts in the book has been made by her and her official biographers, Mary Hartnett and Wendy G. Williams. Justice Ginsburg has written an introduction for the book, and Hartnett and Williams have written introductions for each chapter, providing the biographical context and comments derived from hundreds of interviews they have conducted.
The book is a captivating look at the life of a woman who has influenced American society and indeed all of humanity like few others.
