Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book offers an intimate look at her extraordinary life and details
her lifelong pursuit for gender equality and a more perfect Union. In the fall of 2019 Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California Berkeley School of Law to honor her
friend the late Herma Hill Kay with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on
sex-based discrimination in 1974. During Justice Ginsburg's visit she shared her life story
with Amanda L. Tyler a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk. Their intimate
conversation is recorded here in Justice Justice Thou Shalt Pursue along with previously
unpublished materials that detail Ginsburg's long career. These include notable briefs and oral
arguments Ginsburg's last speeches and her favorite opinions that she wrote as a Supreme
Court Justice (many in dissent) along with the statements that she read from the bench in
those important cases. Each document was carefully chosen by Ginsburg and Tyler to tell the
litigation strategy at the heart of Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to achieve a more perfect
Union. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate and jurist for gender equality ensuring that the
United States Constitution leaves no person behind and allows every individual to achieve their
full human potential. Her work transformed not just the American legal landscape but American
society. As revealed in these pages Ginsburg dismantled long-entrenched systems of
discrimination based on outdated stereotypes by showing how such laws hold back both genders.
With her death the country lost a hero whose incredible life and legacy made the United States
a society in which We the People for whom the Constitution is written includes everyone.
