Glorious, So-Curious RBG

There she was, Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first female law professors in the country at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. There she was, from the time she started in 1963, teaching classes relating to her specialty, civil procedure.And then students began asking for a class in women's rights. Ideas about equality between the sexes were starting to change. Professor Ginsburg's curiosity was piqued. As she later explained, in an interview at Ohio State University in 2006,

"To answer the students' plea, I repaired to the library. Inside of a month I had read every federal decision ever written relating to women's rights, also some state court decisions. That was no great feat, for there were precious few of them."

RBG put together her class on women's rights, sex discrimination, and gender equality, one of the first ever taught at a law school. She went on to co-found the first law review on women's issues, to co-author the first casebook on women's rights, and to co-found the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. And after that--the rest is history. (You know, the whole becoming a federal judge and then a Supreme Court justice thing.) See what a curious mind can lead to?Glorious, So-Curious RBG.Next time: Meritorious RBG.(Photo is from the Supreme Court of the United States collection)