Background
Ginsburg was born in Berkeley, California on February 22, 1967.
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Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nineteen years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of National Constitutions, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton examine the causes of constitutional endurance from an institutional perspective. Supported by an original set of cross-national historical data, theirs is the first comprehensive study of constitutional mortality. They show that whereas constitutions are imperiled by social and political crises, certain aspects of a constitution's design can lower the risk of death substantially. Thus, to the extent that endurance is desirable - a question that the authors also subject to scrutiny - the decisions of founders take on added importance.
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Law in Korea has historically been viewed as merely a tool of authoritarian rule, but since the transition to democracy in 1987 it has served a more important and visible role as a force for social change. With contributions from leading US and Korean scholars, Legal Reform in Korea explores this response to domestic and international pressures, applying a socio-legal perspective to both legal practices and the legal institutions themselves, which have become a major political issue throughout the developing world. An invaluable resource for students of Asian law and Korean studies.
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Ginsburg was born in Berkeley, California on February 22, 1967.
He is primarily known as a scholar of international and comparative law, with focus on constitutions and a regional specialty of East Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies, a Juris Doctor, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law from 2000-2008, after which he joined the law faculty at Chicago.
Before entering law teaching at the University of Illinois in 2000, he served as a legal advisor to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands as well as consulting for numerous international development agencies and foreign governments.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, Seoul National University, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Trento. In addition to 7 books, he has written a large number of journal and law review articles
(Law in Korea has historically been viewed as merely a too...)
(Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structu...)