Raising the Bar: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ACLU Women's Rights Project - Softcover

Raising the Bar defines Ruth Bader Ginsburg's contribution to American constitutional law through her efforts as professor, lawyer, and women's rights advocate. Focusing on the years 1971 to 1980, it explores the decade during which Ginsburg founded and was general counsel to the ACLU Women's Rights Project. Several scholars have undertaken similar analyses in the past, but the missing ingredient has long been Ginsburg's own perspective, now available through her donation of private papers. Raising the Bar pinpoints Ginsburg's role in the progression of her complicated, multi-layered strategy to combat gender discrimination from theory to implementation.

Amy Leigh Campbell received her B.S. from Sweet Briar College and her M.A. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government at the University of Virginia. She is currently with the Politics and Field Department of NARAL Pro-Choice America, and also works with non-profit organizations as the President of Bloom Consulting. She resides in Arlington, Virginia and is active in her community, serving on the Governor's Commission for National and Community Service. Raising the Bar is her first book.