Memorial to Barbara Ringer

Authors

Peter Jaszi, American University Washington College of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2009

Journal

Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

Volume

56

Issue

4

First Page

xvi

Last Page

xvii

Abstract

The story goes that in 439 BC the retired consul Cincinnatus was summoned from the plow by the Senate and people of Rome. One more time, he saw the Republic through a time of particular peril, resigning office immediately afterwards to return to his rural retirement - to be transmuted into a timeless emblem of selfless probity. Episodes of this kind are even rarer in the annals of the U.S. civil service than in the Roman history. But I had the good fortune to be a witness to one such - Barbara Ringer's return to the Library of Congress in 1993 to co-chair the Advisory Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit (ACCORD).

Recommended Citation

Peter Jaszi, Memorial to Barbara Ringer, 56 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. xvi (2009).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/2110