Law & Economics Workshop

presents

Tom Ginsburg

University of Illinois College of Law;

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago

The Lifespan of Written Constitutions

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (room FA2)

84 Queen’s Park

Tom Ginsburg, currently visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective.  He holds B.A., J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.  One of his books, Judicial Review in New Democracies, (Cambridge University Press, 2003) won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for best book on law and courts in 2004, and he has authored or edited four other volumes.  Ginsburg serves as co-director of the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Illinois and has consulted with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands. 

A light lunch will be provided.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca