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Created by Alphalfalfa ( talk). Self-nominated at 04:47, 13 July 2021 (UTC).
While the picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Columbia Regalia is interesting (and maybe should be in the RBG page), I'm wondering if it should be removed here. Columbia Law changed its first law degree from an LLB to a JD in 1969 (see Juris_Doctor#Creation_of_the_J.D._and_major_common_law_approaches_to_legal_education. RBG, who graduated before that date, was awarded an LLB (Bachelors of laws) (see her page linked above) and wore the appropriate regalia at that time. The current Columbia JD regalia is the same as the PhD regalia with a purple Law hood (see e.g., this page of pictures of graduates from 2019 at which JDs are wearing doctoral regalia (only the LLMs wear other regalia, and still not that worn by RBG)).
Thus the current state of columbia law regalia looks nothing like the picture, and on a page for columbia regalia is somewhat misleading without a notation that this version of the regalia is now superseded. Either the photo should be marked to make clear that she is wearing the old regalia (a change I'll make now) or be removed.
JustAnotherNewYorker (
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