Douglas H. Ginsburg is a judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to which he was appointed by President Reagan in 1986. He is also a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, where he teaches courses in antitrust and jurisprudence, and a visiting professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws. Before joining the bench, he was a professor at Harvard Law School and then assistant attorney general of the United States for antitrust. Judge Ginsburg is a graduate of Cornell University (1970) and of the University of Chicago Law School (1973).

He serves on the advisory boards of many journals and academic centers, including the Supreme Court Economic Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the University of Chicago Law Review, and, at University College London, both the Centre for Law, Economics and Society and the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics.

He is the author or coauthor of many books and articles, including “Originalism and Economic Analysis: Two Case Studies of Consistency and Coherence in Supreme Court Decision Making,” (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2010); and “On Constitutionalism,” (2003 Simon Lecture, CATO Supreme Court Review, 2002–03). Judge Ginsburg recently completed a three-part series on the Constitution, A More or Less Perfect Union, to be broadcast on PBS stations early in 2020.

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