Professor Emerita Nadine Taub, 77, Dies After Long Illness | Rutgers Law

Nadine Taub was recruited to Rutgers Law School by Ruth Ginsburg.  She was the founding director of  the Women't Rights Clinic in 1971 and had a brilliant career.  I collaborated with her as counsel for National Organization for Women - NOW-NJ in Collins v. Union County Jail.  She was one of the most exacting lawyers I have ever worked with.  I' m happy to be able to note that I gave her a shout out in my recent interview for the IPSE DIXIT Podcast last week  about the history of Rutgers Law School, which we called "Peoples Electric". -gwc
Professor Emerita Nadine Taub, 77, Dies After Long Illness | Rutgers Law

Professor Emerita Nadine Taub served on the faculty in Newark for about 30 years commencing in the early 1970s and was a pioneer in the field of Women’s Rights through her groundbreaking clinical practice, teaching and scholarship. She founded the Rutgers Women’s Rights Clinic (WRC) in the early 1970s as part of women’s rights teaching and advocacy generated at Rutgers as initially conceptualized by then-Rutgers Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and as depicted in last year’s movie, “On the Basis of Sex.” The Rutgers Women’s Rights Clinic is believed to be the first such clinic in the country.

As the WRC’s director, Professor Taub, with her students, pioneered work in establishing sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination in employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in education under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972; helped advance in the New Jersey Supreme Court, with Lou Raveson, the state constitutional right of low-income women to medicaid-funded therapeutic abortions after the U.S Supreme Court had rejected such a right under the U.S. Constitution; secured access to women to previously all-male eat¬ing clubs and accommodations under state civil rights law such as Princeton University's Ivy Club; and developed novel ways for battered women to use traditional civil remedies to obtain protection from their attackers. She also spearheaded work with the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on domestic violence issues while an active member of the New Jersey Task Force on Domestic Violence.****