The Edith House Lecture Series In Law
THE INAUGURAL LECTURE "Refining the Equality Principle: Formal Equality, Substantive Equality and Special Treatment
for Women" presented by Professor Nadine Taub , Rutgers Law School #
MAY 3, 1983
Edith House, a native of Winder, Georgia, received the first law degree granted to a woman by the University of Georgia and was Valedictorian of the Class of 1925. Following her graduation, she practiced law for four years in Clearwater, Florida. She was then appointed to be Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, a post she held for the next 30 years. When the Southern District was subdivided in 1963, she served as the U.S. Attorney for that district during the transition period. She retired in 1963 and lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
Professor Nadine Taub,
a graduate of Swarthmore College, received her L.L.B. degree from the Yale Law School. She continued her legal education at Stockholm University, specializing in administrative law. Since 1973 she has been on the faculty of the Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey, where she teaches courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, and social welfare legislation. She is currently the Director of the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic and an advisor for the Women's Rights Law Reporter.