Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have pancreatic cancer, but she’s still going strong.

The 76-year-old made an appearance this weekend in Ohio, where she was honored by the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. During a speech there,  The New York Times says, she talked about her role as the high court’s only female justice ("there I am all alone … and it doesn’t look right"), how torture shouldn’t ever be used, and she defended the use of foreign law by American judges. That latter stance is giving some conservative corners and others a particular headache, and the conservative judges on the bench have opposed applying foreign laws to the U.S. Constitution.

"Justice Ginsburg is obviously more interested in being liked by foreigners than in properly adjudicating American law within the American tradition, more interested in injecting foreign ideas than in paying proper fealty to the Constitution," writes the conservative American Daily Review. "This woman cannot retire fast enough to suit a patriotic American."

But Ginsburg essentially said: Get over it.

"I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law," she said. "Why shouldn’t we look to the wisdom of a judge from abroad with at least as much ease as we would read a law review article written by a professor?"

She gave no indication in Ohio that she plans on leaving the bench anytime soon. The 76-year-old justice, who celebrated her 15th year on the court this month, hasn’t missed a court session yet, The Washington Post reports, even as she undergoes cautionary chemotherapy after doctors removed a cancerous pancreatic tumor in February. And she’s been more active in writing opinions than most other judges in that time, even picking up her travel schedule and going to the opera.