The writer is dean of Stanford Law School
The death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been met with widespread grief and shock, even though her passing at the age of 87 was not a surprise given her repeated bouts of cancer and other health problems in recent years. Still, at barely five feet tall and a hundred pounds, the tiny jurist had seemed indestructible because of her dignified fierceness.
Only the second woman ever to serve on the highest US court, Ginsburg had established herself