Please join Chicago Law and Chicago Booth Alumni for Cocktails and Conversation with Professor Tom Ginsburg.
Event Details
Please join fellow Booth and Chicago Law alumni for cocktails and conversation with Professor Tom Ginsburg.
Date: Monday, March 23, 2015
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: The China Club, 13/F, Old Bank of China Building, Bank Street, Central
Cost: Complimentary
RSVP: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/hongkongevent
Questions: Ragan Memmot at rmemmott@uchicago.edu
The Law School would like to thank Bryant Edwards, JD '81 for supporting this event.
Speaker Profiles
Professor Tom Ginsburg (Speaker)
Deputy Dean and Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago Law School
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/ginsburg-t
Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. 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); and Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries (2014). 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. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.