The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has turned up the heat in our national conversation about justice for all in America. The tension and debate surrounding the nomination process, from its timing to the ultimate makeup of our highest court, reveals that there is a danger in justice being seen as the function of a sole entity or institution, rather than something society pursues collaboratively. It is time for all of us to work for equal justice under the law in our personal lives and in our professional careers.

Justice Ginsburg agreed. Living her life by the creed from the book of Deuteronomy that hung on the wall of her Supreme Court chamber: “Justice, justice you shall pursue,” she wrote the majority opinion in several cases that were instrumental to the cause of criminal justice reform over the course of her career.