Entertainment & Sports
Jul. 11, 2022
Stream it Tonight! On the Basis of Sex (2018)
The film opens with the resounding strains of “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard.” This is highly ironic as there were only nine women in Harvard’s entering law school class when Ruth Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) enrolled.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Why watch? See the Notorious RBG and her husband Martin Ginsburg as young lawyers handling the appeal in a tax case involving big issues but only a $600 deduction!
The film opens with the resounding strains of “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard.” This is highly ironic as there were only nine women in Harvard’s entering law school class when Ruth Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) enrolled. The faculty and Dean Erwin Griswold were condescending. At a dinn...
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