Tom Ginsburg


Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity and the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is primarily known as a scholar of international and comparative law, with a focus on constitutions and a regional specialty of East Asia.
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Biography

Ginsburg was born in Berkeley, California on February 22, 1967. He holds a B.A. in Asian Studies, a J.D., and a Ph.D in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law from 2000 until 2008, when he joined the law faculty at Chicago.

Professional work

Before entering law teaching at the University of Illinois in 2000, he served as a legal advisor to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands as well as consulting for numerous international development agencies and foreign governments.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, Seoul National University, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Trento.
In addition to seven books, he has written a large number of journal and law review articles. With Zachary Elkins, he founded the Comparative Constitutions Project, which records the content of a complete set of national constitutions since 1789 and produces the website in partnership with Google Ideas.
Ginsburg is one of the most cited scholars of international law in the United States.

Selected works

How to Save a Constitutional Democracy Judicial Reputation The Endurance Of National Constitutions Winner of Best Book Award from Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science AssociationAdministrative Law And Governance In Asia: Comparative Perspectives Rule By Law: The Politics Of Courts In Authoritarian Regimes Institutions And Public Law: Comparative Approaches .Legal Reform In Korea.Judicial Review In New Democracies: Constitutional Courts In East Asia. Winner of the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on law and courts.