Douglas H. Ginsburg

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Douglas Howard Ginsburg (born May 25, 1946) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . Appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan , he is also a professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University .

Born in Chicago , Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago Law School and was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court . He went on to a career in academia and government, becoming a professor at Harvard Law School and serving in the Reagan administration as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and later as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice .

In 1987, Reagan announced his intention to nominate Ginsburg as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Ginsburg withdrew his name from consideration two weeks later in the wake of news reports that he had smoked marijuana in the past.

Reagan instead nominated Anthony Kennedy .

Ginsburg served as chief judge of the D.C. Circuit from 2001 to 2008. He took senior status in October 2011 and joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in January 2012. In 2013, he left NYU and began teaching at George Mason University. He is the author of scholarly works on U.S. antitrust law and constitutional law .

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Career

• 3 Federal judicial service

• 4 United States Supreme Court nomination

• 5 Personal life

• 6 Selected scholarly works

• 7 See also

• 8 References

• 9 External links

Early life and education

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Ginsburg was born on May 25, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois, to Katherine (née Goodmont) and Maurice Ginsburg. After graduating from the Latin School of Chicago in 1963, he entered Cornell University as a classics major. He dropped out in 1965 due to "boredom" and co-founded Operation Match , an early computer dating service based in Boston, Massachusetts . Ginsburg sold the company in 1968 and returned to Cornell, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial relations .

Ginsburg then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the _University of Chicago Law Review _ along with future federal judge Frank Easterbrook and future billionaire investor David Rubenstein . He graduated in 1973 with a J.D. degree and membership in the Order of the Coif .

Career

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After law school, Ginsburg was a law clerk to Judge Carl E. McGowan of the D.C. Circuit from 1973 to 1974 and to U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall from 1974 to 1975. He then became a professor at Harvard Law School, where he taught labor law , administrative law , antitrust law, and other subjects.

In 1983, Ginsburg joined the administration of President Ronald Reagan as a deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. In 1984, he became the administrator of the Executive Office of the President 's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and in 1985 he was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division.

From 1988 to 2008, Ginsburg was an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law (now Antonin Scalia Law School), where he taught a seminar called "Readings in Legal Thought". Until 2011 he was also a Visiting Lecturer and Charles J. Merriam Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Ginsburg has been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School (1987–1988) and a visiting scholar at New York Law School (2006–2008).

Ginsburg is currently a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School. He was previously a visiting professor at University College London Faculty of Laws. He serves on the advisory boards of the Global Antitrust Institute (Chairman), the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics and the Centre for Law, Economics, and Society, bo

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