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The first Jewish justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a craftsman of privacy law.

Lawyer who coined the word genocide and drafted a convention against it.

The young civilian who wrote women’s rights into Japan’s postwar constitution.

The first woman to be dean of Harvard Law and the fourth woman on the Supreme Court.

Brooklyn congressman who helped write the Civil Rights Act and undo racial immigration quotas.

Vienna-born justice who treated judicial restraint as a discipline.

Lawyer who led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund through the civil-rights cases after Brown.

New York senator who helped write mid-century civil-rights and foreign-affairs law.

Jurist who built a career on equal protection and careful dissent.

Supreme Court justice who argued for a pragmatic, purpose-reading Court.