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Jane C. Ginsburg

American lawyer and legal scholar (born 1955)

Field	Value
name	Jane C. Ginsburg
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image	Jane Ginsburg (cropped).jpg
caption	Ginsburg in 2020
birth_name	Jane Carol Ginsburg
birth_date
birth_place	Freeport, New York, U.S.
education	University of Chicago (BA, MA)
Harvard University (JD)
Panthéon-Assas University (DEA, LLD)
spouse
children	2
mother	Ruth Bader Ginsburg
father	Martin D. Ginsburg
relatives	James Steven Ginsburg (brother)
awards	American Philosophical Society (2013)

Harvard University (JD) Panthéon-Assas University (DEA, LLD)

Jane Carol Ginsburg (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. In 2011, Ginsburg was elected to the British Academy.

Ginsburg is the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Career

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. 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.

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. Her brother, James Steven Ginsburg, is the founder of Cedille Records.

In popular culture

In the 2018 feature film On the Basis of Sex, a biography of her mother Ruth, a teenage Jane is portrayed by Cailee Spaeny.

Personal life

In 1981, Ginsburg married George T. Spera Jr. of Mays Landing, New Jersey. Her husband works for the law firm Shearman & Sterling. They have two children. Their son, Paul Spera (born 1986), an actor, graduated from Yale in 2008. Their daughter, Clara Spera (born 1990), graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017, and is married to Scottish actor Rory Boyd.

References

"Jane C Ginsburg". [[Columbia Law School]].
(Fall 2011). "GINSBURG GARNERS HONORS IN BRITAIN, U.S.". [[Columbia Law School.
"Digital Asset Abstract".
"APS Member History".
Harris, Gardiner. (June 27, 2010). "M.D. Ginsburg, 78, Dies; Lawyer and Tax Expert". [[The New York Times]].
(July 5, 1981). "Jane C. Ginsburg Engaged to Wed". [[New York Times]].
(July 27, 2016). "The Notorious RBG's Grandson is a Total Babe".
Tabio, Nick. (April 27, 2018). "Paul Spera: A Homecoming". [[Yale News]].
"Clara & Rory".

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