Wednesday, July 21, 4pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The death penalty is still a debated subject today, as it has been for much of American history. Bipartisan legislation to ban the death penalty, S.B. 103 and H.B. 183, is presently pending before the Ohio legislature. How would Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg approach this life-or-death issue were she a legislator? How did she approach it as a Justice?

Join Professor Marge Koosed, the Aileen McMurray Trusler Professor Emeritus at The University of Akron School of Law and the Board Chair of Ohioans to Stop Executions, for a talk on the legacy of Justice Ginsburg and other Jewish Supreme Court Justices, including Justices Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, and Stephen Breyer, in shaping and questioning America’s death penalty system. Professor Koosed examines judicial opinions issued by Justice Ginsburg and other Jewish justices, historic and contemporary, to discuss how values central to Judaism guided these opinions and what we can learn from these opinions today.

Registration fee: $5 for non-members; free for members of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

We are proud to present this program in connection to the special exhibition, “Notorious: RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” presented locally by PNC Bank.

We thank our programming partner, ACLU of Ohio.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by ACLU of Ohio and Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.