#miltonkonvitz

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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg '54

On this day we remember the great Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '54 and her work fighting against gender discrimination and other workplace injustices in the courts. May she continue to rest in power.

This is a letter she sent to one of her favorite instructors and mentors at her time at Cornell, ILR Professor Milton Konvitz.

To listen to RBG discuss some of her prominent case decisions, watch this video here: https://vimeo.com/150387605, which is also located in our College of Labor and Employment Lawyers Oral History Collection.

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Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture Posters

With the Fall 2025 semester starting in just 20 days, we remember Milton Konvitz, one of the founding faculty of the ILR School. Konvitz is perhaps best known for his American Ideals course, which he taught to more than 8,000 students over the course of his career, never giving the same lecture twice. His last lecture was on December 3rd, 1974. Konvitz also was a founder of the University's Department of Near Eastern Studies and Program of Jewish Studies.

ILR hosts an annual Milton Konvitz lecture including presentations by esteemed individuals such as Sandra Day O'Connor (Retired Supreme Court Justice) and Wilma Liebman (Former Chairman of the NLRB), as well as professors of Law Akhil Reed Amar (Yale University) and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (Harvard University).

Read more about Konvitz here. See also Collections /4341, /4039 AV, /4039 (and more!) for personal correspondence, audiovisual materials, and other documentation of Konvitz's.

📸 Collection /4315 G, ILR School Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture Posters.