Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. His books include Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009), which also won a best book prize from APSA; Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes (2014); Judicial Reputation (2015); How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2019) (with Aziz Huq); and his latest, Democracies and International Law (2021). 

He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789. Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. 

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