Dr. Tom Ginsburg

Biography

Professor Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Political Science at the University of Chicago. His scholarship focuses on comparative international law, offering an interdisciplinary perspective on the subject. Ginsburg's recent works include his book 'Democracies and International Law' (2021), which has received multiple book prizes. He has previously co-authored significant works such as 'Save Constitutional Democracy' (2018) with Aziz Z. Huq, a book that won the book award from the International Society of Constitutional Law. Additionally, he authored 'Judicial Review in New Democracies' (2003), which earned the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association. His earlier publication, 'Endurance of National Constitutions,' co-written with Zachary Elkins and James Melton in 2009, was also recognized with a book prize by APSA. Ginsburg currently serves as the co-director of the Comparative Constitutions Project, a National Science Foundation-funded initiative aimed at gathering and analyzing the constitutions of independent nation-states since 1789.

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