Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he works on comparative and international law. He also directs the University of Chicago’s Malyi Center on Institutional and Legal Integrity and co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to study the world’s constitutions. Previously, Ginsburg served as a legal adviser at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and The Hague, and he continues to work with international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is the author of numerous award-winning books, including How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018), co-written with Aziz Z. Huq, and co-hosts the Entitled podcast on human rights.