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Joint appointment
Leo Spitz Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Education
Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy,
University of California, Berkeley
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Curriculum vitae
Bio
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He holds B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an NSF-funded data set cataloging the world’s constitutions since 1789. His…
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Research focus
The drafting, design, and implementation of national constitutions; legal reform in Northeast Asia; and comparative notions of judicial independence.