Tom Ginsburg

Departmental website:
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/ginsburg-t

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.

Tom Ginsburg

Title: Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law; Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar; Professor of Political Science; Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity; Faculty Director, Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression
Education: BA, JD, PhD, all from the University of California, Berkeley
Joined UChicago faculty: 2008
tginsburg@uchicago.edu
@tomginsburg