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By David Lopez This week, Rutgers University will dedicate “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall,” in honor of the former Supreme Court Justice who taught at Rutgers Law School-Newark from 1963-1972. When Rutgers hired Ginsburg in 1963, she became the second woman on the 17-member faculty. The otherwise progressive Dean Willard Heckel infamously paid her less than male faculty. From 1963-1968, Ginsburg is remembered as a meticulous, soft-spoken professor teaching dry subjects, such as civil procedure and conflict of laws. However, when Ginsburg left Rutgers for Columbia Law in 1972, she had become a natio…