Ginsburg wins Berggruen Prize for 'thinker' whose ideas changed society
Source: Washington Post
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the 2019 winner of the Berggruen Prize for Culture and Philosophy, a $1 million award given annually to a “thinker whose ideas are shaping human self-understanding to advance humankind.”
The 86-year-old justice will donate the money to charity, the Berggruen Institute said.
Ginsburg was lauded by the jury that chose her “for her work in pioneering gender equality and strengthening the rule of law.”
The prize recognized not only Ginsburg’s 26 years on the Supreme Court, but her work as an advocate for women’s rights. As a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg quarterbacked a team of lawyers that brought six cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970s and helped establish that the constitutional guarantee of equal protection applied not only to racial minorities but to women as well.
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Live long and prosper, Justice Ginsburg.
