STCL Students Enjoy "Experience of a Lifetime" with SCOTUS Justice RBG

© 2017 The Texas Lawbook.By Brooks Igo (Aug. 2) – Law students at South Texas College of Law (STCL) had an “experience of a lifetime” to learn from and spend time with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this summer over the week of July 4 in Malta. Justice Ginsburg participated in a discussion with STCL Dean Donald Guter, provided a review of prominent cases at the nation’s high court over the past year and met individually with each of the 40 students from STCL and three other law schools at the University of Malta’s Valletta campus. STCL is one of four member law schools of the Consortium for Innovative Legal Education (CILE), which also includes California Western School of Law, New England Law in Boston and William Mitchell College of Law. In years past, the CILE’s study abroad program has hosted Chief Justice John Roberts and the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Guter says Ginsburg was “very accessible” to the students. She welcomed and spent one-on-one time with each one. Plus, every student got a photo op with the second female justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. In her two-hour Q&A with Guter, Ginsburg talked about her…