Women's Rights Law Reporter

History and focus

Ann Marie Boylan, a 1970 graduate of Rutgers School of Law created the first issue of the Women's Rights Law Reporter (WRLR), published out of her apartment in Newark in 1970. Shortly after publication of the first issue, the journal was disbanded for lack of funding and support. In the fall of 1970 Rutgers law student Elizabeth Langer recruited a group of Rutgers law students to bring the Women’s Rights Law Reporter to Rutgers Law School. Langer met with the dean, James Paul, who said the Reporter would need to find a faculty advisor, office space in the school and funding. Professor Annamay Sheppard offered space in the Urban Legal Clinic building. Langer met with Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg who agreed to become faculty advisor. Students obtained small grants from the Women’s Center at Barnard College, the Wallace Eljabar-Fund, the Women’s Division of the Board of Missions of the United Methodist Church, and the Student Bar Association of Rutgers Law School. WRLR was launched and moved onto Rutgers' campus in 1970. It became formally associated with Rutgers in 1974. Upon Professor Ginsburg’s departure in 1972, Professor Nadine H. Taub became faculty advisor and remained for many years.

On its founding advisory board were Arthur Kinoy, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Margot Champagne, Mary Eastwood, Riane Eisler, Ann Freedman, Jo Ann Evans Gardner, Janice Goodman, Renee Hanover, Bernice Handler, Diane B. Schulder, Faith Seidenberg, and Nancy Stearns.

References

References

1. "About the Reporter". Women's Rights Law Reporter.
2. Langer, Elizabeth. (30 November 2010). "The Birth of the Women's Rights Law Reporter".
3. Thorpe, J.R.. (15 March 2017). "7 Things You Didn't Know About Ruth Bader Ginsburg...". Bustle.