Douglas H. Ginsburg

Douglas H. Ginsburg, Visiting Lecturer and Charles J. Merriam Scholar, is a Judge of  the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to which he was appointed by President Reagan in 1986, and which he served as Chief Judge from 2001 to 2008. He is also a Visiting Professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws.

Judge Ginsburg is a graduate of Cornell University and of the University of Chicago Law School (1973), where he was the Articles Editor of the Law Review. He was law clerk to Hon. Carl G. McGowan on the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the Harvard Law School Faculty (1975-83). He served in the Reagan Administration (1983-86) as Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; and as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.