Join Center for Campus Involvement for a free screening of RBG in celebration of Women's History Month. Registration required. Screening access begins 3/22/21 at 12 a.m. and lasts until 3/23/21 at 11:59 p.m. Access only available for U-M students, staff, and faculty. A film discussion will take place on 3/23 at 6 p.m. Panelists include Professors Kate Andrias and Margo Schlanger.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

Professor Kate Andrias teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, labor law, and administrative law. Her current research focuses on the relationship between these areas of law and economic inequality and on questions of democratic governance. In 2016, Professor Andrias was the recipient of the Law School's L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Andrias clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also has served as an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School, and taught American Constitutional Law as a visiting professor at L'Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Professor Andrias graduated from Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal and as a Coker Fellow. Prior to law school, Professor Andrias worked as a union organizer.

Margo Schlanger, the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law, is a leading authority on civil rights issues and civil and criminal detention. She joined the Law School faculty in fall 2009; she teaches constitutional law, torts, and classes relating to civil rights and to jails and prisons. She also founded and runs the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Previously, she had been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and an assistant professor at Harvard University. Professor Schlanger earned her J.D. from Yale in 1993. While there, she served as book reviews editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the Vinson Prize. She then served as law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998, she was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where she worked to remedy civil rights abuses by prison and police departments and earned two Division Special Achievement awards.



“It’s a fist-pumping, crowd-pleasing documentary that makes one heck of a play to remind people of Ginsburg’s vitality and importance, now more than ever.” – Katie Erbland, IndieWire

“Loving and informative…The movie’s touch is light and its spirit buoyant, but there is no mistaking its seriousness or its passion.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“I can’t thing of a dramatic film on screen right now that will make you feel this good, and that’s a fact.” – Kenneth Turan, LA Times

“All rise for a true heroine! A fantastic, flat-out fierce film.” – Mara Reinstein, US Weekly

“A memorable and valuable film” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Best Feature Documentary—Academy Award™ nominee

Official Selection TRIBECA Film Festival