Tom Ginsburg

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. 

Ginsburg Stories

Chicago Forum launch events explore complexities of free expression

UChicago hosts leading thinkers and experts examining issues across academia and society

Looking back at the history of Convocation at UChicago

Although celebration has changed, spirit of annual ‘calling together’ has stayed constant since 1893

Watch UChicago faculty discuss research in new Harper Lectures

Virtual events will cover development economics, physics, democracy and more

How Progressives Could Use FDR's Losing Court Strategy to Win

<p>Prof. Tom Ginsburg discusses congressional politics and the Supreme Court</p>


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Is there a teaching/scholarship trade-off in law schools?

Article examines paper by Profs. Tom Ginsburg and Thomas Miles, which studies relationship between scholarly output and teaching quality


Stop Revering Magna Carta

In op-ed, Prof. Tom Ginsburg writes that the Magna Carta’s text has been overly referenced by reformers from Benjamin Franklin to Nelson Mandela


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