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 Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at New York Law School. 

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 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.

The  author of books and articles on regulation, antitrust, and constitutional law, he is  a member of the American Economic Association, the American Law and Economics Association, and the Mont Pelerin Society.