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Jane C. Ginsburg

FBA

Ginsburg in 2020

Born Jane Carol Ginsburg

July 21, 1955 (age 67)

Freeport, New York, U.S.

Education University of Chicago (BA, MA)

Harvard University (JD)

Panthéon-Assas University (DEA, LLD)

George Spera
Spouse
 (m. 1981)

Children 2

 Martin D. Ginsburg (father)

Parents
 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (mother)

Relatives James Steven Ginsburg (brother)

Awards American Philosophical Society (2013)

Jane Carol Ginsburg FBA (born July 21, 1955) is an American attorney. She is
the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at
the Columbia Law School. She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center
for Law, Media and the Arts.[1] In 2011, Ginsburg was elected to the British
Academy.[2]
Ginsburg is the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Career[edit]
An expert on copyright, Ginsburg has written various treatises and law review
articles. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of
Chicago, her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, a DEA with a Fulbright
grant (1985), and a Doctor of Law degree (1995) from Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
University. At Harvard, she served as an editor of the Harvard Law
Review.[1][3] After law school, she clerked for Judge John Gibbons of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Ginsburg was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013.[4]
She is the daughter of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and law professor Martin Ginsburg, both of whom formerly served on
the Columbia Law School faculty. Justice Ginsburg and Jane are the first
mother–daughter pair ever to serve on the same law faculty in the United
States.[5] Her brother is founder of Cedille Records, James Steven Ginsburg.