Reynolds and Ginsburg Teach in Venice, Italy

Venice, Italy – Professor Suzanne Reynolds is wrapping up a special assignment: teaching law with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Venice, Italy.

For two weeks, the two have taught comparative constitutional law to a class of American students from Wake Forest law school and Italian law students from the University of Padua. Reynolds will stay on for two weeks to teach comparative family law.

Reynolds, a Wake Forest Law Professor and candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court, became acquainted with Justice Ginsburg while interviewing her for the Wake Forest law school’s “Conversations” program in 2005. Reynolds later was instrumental in bringing Justice Ginsburg to Asheville in 2007 for the Women in the Profession Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association. For the Asheville program, Reynolds again served as the interviewer for “A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” The program was the best attended event in the history of the North Carolina Bar Association.

In 2007, Wake Forest law school invited Justice Ginsburg to teach constitutional law in Wake Forest’s summer program in Venice in 2008, and Justice Ginsburg agreed, noting that she would like to teach with Reynolds.

“What an honor and a pleasure it has been to teach with Justice Ginsburg,” Reynolds said. “She is a thoughtful and masterful scholar and a warm and gracious human being.”

Ginsburg, a former law professor, was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993.

Reynolds will return to North Carolina in early August and will resume her campaign for the North Carolina Supreme Court.