Rutgers Dedicates Iconic Newark Campus Building to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
NEWARK, NJ — Nearly 58 years after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg began her career as a professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, the iconic campus building located on Washington Street was dedicated in her honor.
Rutgers University administration members on Thursday gathered at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall to celebrate the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice. The dedication ceremony came after the Rutgers Board of Governors last fall unanimously approved renaming the 17-story landmark residence hall in Newark to recognize the trailblazing jurist who died in September 2020 following recurring bouts of cancer.
“In naming this space for her, we embrace Justice Ginsburg’s commitment to equal justice under the law, her fearlessness in pursuit of a better life for women and for those who have faced hardship and discrimination, and her clear-eyed understanding that we still have so much work ahead in achieving the promise of America,” Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway said. “The reason we have made progress in addressing unfairness and injustice in our nation – whether emancipation or suffrage or civil rights or women’s rights – is because of courageous people like her, people looking beyond their own interest and serving the greater good like Ruth Bader Ginsburg did with such intelligence, passion, wit and grace.”
The newly-named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall was home to Rutgers Law School for nearly a quarter-century after Ginsburg left Rutgers. It is now home to 330 graduate and undergraduate students, including 100 law students and is the residence of Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor.
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