Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg got the rock star treatment during the Association of American Law Schools' annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Many of the normally rather staid legal educators in attendance whipped out their cellphones to snap pictures as Ginsburg entered the ballroom Saturday for an hour-long conversation with Wendy Williams, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

They exploded in applause when Ginsburg assured them that her health was “great”—this after she'd spent several days in the hospital in November undergoing placement of a stent to clear blockage in her right coronary artery.