Judge Douglas Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1986. He was Chief Judge from 2001 to 2008 and became a Senior Circuit Judge in 2011. After receiving his B.S. from Cornell University in 1970, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, Judge Ginsburg clerked for Judge Carl McGowan on the D.C. Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court. Thereafter, he was a professor at the Harvard Law School, the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as well as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. While on the bench, Judge Ginsburg has taught at the University of Chicago Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, and Columbia Law School. He is currently Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and a visiting professor at the University College London, Faculty of Laws. Judge Ginsburg is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Global Antitrust Institute at George Mason University. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of: Competition Policy International; the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; the Journal of Competition Law and Economics; the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy; the Supreme Court Economic Review; the University of Chicago Law Review; The New York University Journal of Law and Liberty; and, at University College London, both the Center for Law, Economics and Society and the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics. Judge Ginsburg recently completed a three-part series on the Constitution – “A More or Less Perfect Union” – to be broadcast on PBS stations early in 2020.
