Jane C. Ginsburg | |
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.jpg) Ginsburg in 2020 | |
| Born | Jane Carol Ginsburg (1955-07-21)July 21, 1955 (age 69) Freeport, New York, U.S. |
| Education | University of Chicago (BA,MA) Harvard University (JD) Panthéon-Assas University (DEA,LLD) |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | James Steven Ginsburg (brother) |
| Awards | American Philosophical Society (2013) |
Jane Carol GinsburgFBA (born July 21, 1955) is an American attorney. She is theMorton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at theColumbia Law School. She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts.[1] In 2011, Ginsburg was elected to theBritish Academy.[2]
Ginsburg is the daughter of Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg.
An expert oncopyright, Ginsburg has written various treatises and law review articles. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from theUniversity of Chicago, her J.D. degree fromHarvard Law School, aDEA with aFulbright grant (1985), and aDoctor of Law degree (1995) fromParis 2 Panthéon-Assas University. At Harvard, she served as an editor of theHarvard Law Review.[1][3] After law school, she clerked for JudgeJohn Gibbons of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Ginsburg was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2013.[4]
She is the daughter ofUnited States Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg and law professorMartin 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,James Steven Ginsburg, is the founder ofCedille Records.
In the 2018 feature filmOn the Basis of Sex, a biography of her mother Ruth, a teenage Jane is portrayed byCailee Spaeny.
In 1981, Ginsburg married George T. Spera Jr. ofMays Landing,New Jersey.[6] Her husband works for the law firmShearman & Sterling. They have two children. Their son, Paul Spera (born 1986), an actor, graduated from Yale in 2008.[7][8] Their daughter, Clara Spera (born 1990), graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017, and is married to Scottish actor Rory Boyd.[9]
