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58
Citations
14388
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132
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Tom Ginsburg is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations, law, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and strategy and management.

Their work encompasses a range of topics centered on judicial and constitutional studies, international law and human rights, American constitutional law and politics, political conflict and governance, legal and constitutional studies, Asian studies and history, and European and international law studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tom Ginsburg include Aziz Z. Huq, Mila Versteeg, Zachary Elkins, Rosalind Dixon, and Sumit Bisarya.

Ginsburg has published extensively in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Journal of Democracy, Global Constitutionalism, and the American Journal of International Law.

Recent publications include:

  • "Authoritarian International Law?" (2020), American Journal of International Law
  • "The bound executive: Emergency powers during the pandemic" (2021), International Journal of Constitutional Law
  • "How Authoritarians Use International Law" (2020), Journal of Democracy
  • "Binding the Unbound Executive: Checks and Balances in Times of Pandemic" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Constitution Makers on Constitution-Making" (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

Tom Ginsburg has contributed a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Democracies and International Law (2021).

Their work involves interdisciplinary approaches bridging law and political science, addressing contemporary issues such as emergency powers during pandemics and the use of international law by authoritarian regimes.

In 2013, Tom Ginsburg was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Endurance of National Constitutions

    Zachary S Elkins;Tom Ginsburg;James Melton

  • Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases

    Tom Ginsburg

  • Rule by law : the politics of courts in authoritarian regimes

    Tom Ginsburg;Tamir Moustafa

  • How to Save a Constitutional Democracy

    Aziz Z. Huq;Tom Ginsburg

  • The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship

    Gregory C. Shaffer;Tom Ginsburg

  • International Substitutes for Domestic Institutions: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Governance

    Tom Ginsburg

  • Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?

    Tom Ginsburg;Zachary S Elkins;Justin Blount

  • Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty

    Tom Ginsburg;James Melton

  • Adjudicating in Anarchy: An Expressive Theory of International Dispute Resolution

    Tom Ginsburg;Richard H. McAdams

  • Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice

    Zachary Elkins;Tom Ginsburg;Beth Ann Simmons

  • Bounded Discretion in International Judicial Lawmaking

    Tom Ginsburg

  • Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter

    James Melton;Tom Ginsburg

  • Guarding the Guardians: Judicial Councils and Judicial Independence

    Nuno Garoupa;Tom Ginsburg

  • Does Law Matter for Economic Development? Evidence From East Asia

    Tom Ginsburg

  • Comparative judicial discretion: An empirical test of economic models

    Robert D. Cooter;Tom Ginsburg

  • The Unreluctant Litigant? An Empirical Analysis of Japan’s Turn to Litigation

    Tom Ginsburg;Glenn Hoetker

  • Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes

    Tom Ginsburg;Alberto Simpser

  • Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective

    Jose Antonio Cheibub;Zachary Elkins;Tom Ginsburg

  • Why Do Countries Adopt Constitutional Review

    Tom Ginsburg;Mila Versteeg

  • 'We the Peoples': The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles

    Tom Ginsburg;Nick J. Foti;Daniel Rockmore

  • Constitutional afterlife: The continuing impact of Thailand's postpolitical constitution

    Tom Ginsburg

  • The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils

    Nuno Garoupa;Tom Ginsburg

  • Measuring the Rule of Law: A Comparison of Indicators

    Mila Versteeg;Tom Ginsburg

  • Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory

    Nuno Garoupa;Tom Ginsburg

  • The Assault on Postcommunist Courts

    Bojan Bugarič;Tom Ginsburg

  • How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy

    Aziz Z. Huq;Tom Ginsburg

  • CONFUCIAN CONSTITUTIONALISM? THE EMERGENCE OF CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN KOREA AND TAIWAN

    Tom Ginsburg

  • The Global Spread of Constitutional Review

    Tom Ginsburg

  • Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts

    Tom Ginsburg

  • Pitfalls of Measuring the Rule of Law

    Tom Ginsburg

  • The South African Constitutional Court and Socioeconomic Rights as 'Insurance Swaps'

    Rosalind Dixon;Tom Ginsburg

  • The bound executive: Emergency powers during the pandemic

    Tom Ginsburg;Mila Versteeg

  • Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?

    Tom Ginsburg;Justin Blount;Zachary Elkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Zachary Elkins
Zachary Elkins The University of Texas at Austin
Nuno Garoupa
Nuno Garoupa George Mason University
Aziz Z. Huq
Aziz Z. Huq University of Chicago
Gregory Shaffer
Gregory Shaffer Georgetown University
Robert D. Cooter
Robert D. Cooter University of California, Berkeley
José Antonio Cheibub
José Antonio Cheibub University of Pittsburgh
Randall Peerenboom
Randall Peerenboom La Trobe University
Richard H. McAdams
Richard H. McAdams University of Chicago
Daniel N. Rockmore
Daniel N. Rockmore Dartmouth College
Beth A. Simmons
Beth A. Simmons University of Pennsylvania

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