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73 Fordham L. Rev. 841 (2004-2005)
Foreword

handle is hein.journals/flr73 and id is 857 raw text is: COLLOQUIUM DEBORAH L. RHODE'S ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOREWORD Bruce A. Green* The photograph of Thurgood Marshall on the wall over my desk is not one of the well-known ones taken circa Brown v. Board of Education,' when he was a civil rights leader and courtroom lawyer striving heroically to realize the promise of equal justice under law.2 It was taken by Deborah Rhode years later when Marshall was serving as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Like Rhode's writings, her photograph is artfully composed and captures the essence of its subject. Marshall is leaning back in a chair in his chambers against a wall of Supreme Court opinions. I imagine he was in the middle of one of the humorous, but pointed, stories for which he was well- known among his clerks and colleagues -stories from his extraordinary experience that suggested both how far the nation had come and how much farther it had to go to realize its constitutional promise.' That is how I best remember Justice Marshall during the Court's 1981 Term when I had the privilege to serve as his law clerk, and I know that Professor Rhode, who clerked for the Justice three years earlier, shares that recollection. I am very grateful to Professor Rhode for the photograph, and not only because of the fond recollections it invokes. Thurgood Marshall is an iconic figure for anyone in this country who cares about justice. The image reminds me every day of our national promise of justice for all; of the potential of the law, legal institutions, and lawyers to bring our nation closer to fulfilling this promise; and of how far we still have to go. Not incidentally, the Rhode signature underneath the photograph is a reminder that legal academics as scholars can contribute in our own way to the cause of equal justice, and that we as teachers can encourage our students to do the same. * Louis Stein Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law; Director, Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics. 1. 347 U.S. 483 (1954). 2. Deborah L. Rhode, Access to Justice 3 (2004). The phrase Equal Justice Under Law is carved on the West Pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court building. 3. See, e.g., Sandra Day O'Connor, Thurgood Marshall: The Influence of a Raconteur, 44 Stan. L. Rev, 1217 (1992).

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