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Professor Patterson began his educa- tion in his home state of Missouri before also finding his way to Harvard Law School, where he earned a Doctor of Jurid- ical Science (S.J.D) in 1920. He spent time as a professor in Texas, Iowa, and Colorado before landing at Columbia University in 1922, where he would remain until his retirement in 1957. Patterson became an Emeritus Professor of Law at the Univer- sity of Virginia shortly thereafter, but very well may have encountered Justice Gins- burg, as he continued to teach a handful of classes at Columbia when she started.
Whether or not they ever person- ally crossed paths, Professor Patterson’s book remains a “rare and important arti- fact of Ginsburg’s evolution as a jurist,” according to the auction listing.
The younger Patterson discovered the auction on a whim. His partner Susan Rogers had seen an article in the New York Times about the auction of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library. During lunch one day, they decided to take a scroll through the offerings. As it would turn out, Lot #4 had a very familiar name in it.
“She just handed me the phone and said, ‘Look, it’s your grandfather’s book,’” said Patterson. “I was stunned.”
While seeing his grandfather’s work in the personal collection of a Supreme Court Justice was a pleasant surprise, it was made even more surprising by the eye-watering price it fetched at auction. After seeing the $44,062.50 price tag for this book, Patterson was able to find some
copies online for less than $50. Though it is unlikely those copies had as interesting a backstory.
Professor Patterson’s book continued to educate law students for decades. According to Terry, the family continued to receive royalties for Jurisprudence long after the professor’s death in 1965; the last royalties were received in 1994, 41 years after the book’s publication.
While discussing the auction with his brother Frank, Patterson mentioned that he had a copy of the same edition of the book sold at auction with the bonus of being signed by the author himself. In response, Frank quipped that they should sell it at half price — a relative bargain at $22,000.
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