Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, stamp ceremony unveiling was held on October 16, 2023.  The celebration drew nearly 200 attendees including students from local high schools Barringer High School, Central, and University High Schools in Newark.

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​Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught at Rutgers Law School in Newark from 1963 to 1972, becoming one of only two women law professors at Rutgers and one of just a handful in the nation. She led a seminar on women and the law and served as the founding faculty adviser for The Women’s Rights Law Reporter (WRLR). The journal is now the oldest legal periodical in the U.S. focusing exclusively on the field of women’s rights law.  Female enrollment was 20% at Rutgers Law School in 1970, which was unusually high for a U.S. law school. Fifty-three years later, Rutgers Law has the highest enrollment of women in the law school’s history at 59%. 

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Justice Ginsburg served on the Supreme Court from 1993 until her death in 2020. During her time on the court, she issued many opinions that advanced equal rights for women and credited her time at Rutgers Law as inspiration for her work. She taught at Rutgers Law School in Newark from 1963 to 1972, becoming one of only two women law professors at Rutgers and one of just a handful in the nation

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​At her unveiling, Rutgers Law School received $6.5 million from the Stephanie and Harold Krieger Charitable Trust, one of the largest gifts in its history, to help establish the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Rights and Gender Justice Clinic. The clinic’s mission will be to advance gender equity through direct representation, impact litigation, and legislative work; educate a new generation of students to continue the fight for gender equity; and expand the reach of Rutgers’ nationally ranked clinical programs with a distinct women’s and gender rights clinic. The gift also creates the Stephanie and Harold Krieger Memorial Endowed Scholarship with a $1 million endowment. This will provide major scholarships for three law students in Newark. Preference will be given to first-generation college students in good academic standing with demonstrated financial need. The clinic will open at Rutgers Law School in  Newark in 2025 thanks to the second largest gift in Rutgers University Law history.

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​The master of ceremony for this event was Sharon Suber, AAUW NJ president/Administrator; Guest speaker where: Rutgers Law Dean Johanna, Bond; Rutgers-Newark Chancellor, Nancy Cantor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg granddaughter Clara Spera, Hon. Ron Stroman; Rutgers Law School '77, Member of Board of Governors, USPS former Deputy Postmaster General; Della Moses Walker, Director, ESPER of New Jersey, Elizabeth Langer; Rutgers Law School '78, 

​The event was co-sponsored by the United States Postal Service; the Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections (ESPER) which is a international stamp society that collects stamps related to the African Diaspora; and the American Association of University Women's of New Jersey Chapter and Rutgers University Law - Newark.