Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on Antitrust and Innovation

Silicon Valley Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

  • Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Speaker: 

  • Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg is senior circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Professor of Law at George Mason Law. 

Judge Ginsburg is a leading authority on competition law and policy, administrative law, and law and economics. In his distinguished career, he has been a professor of law at Harvard University (1975-1983); held a number of posts in the executive branch of federal government (1983-1986), including assistant attorney general for antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice; and was then appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, serving as chief judge from 2001 to 2008.

Judge Ginsburg taught as an adjunct professor at George Mason over a number of years, as well as having appointments as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and a visiting professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws. For the two years prior to joining the George Mason law faculty, Judge Ginsburg was on the faculty of New York University.

Judge Ginsburg holds a B.S. from Cornell University (1970) and a J.D. from the University of Chicago (1973), where he was a member of theUniversity of Chicago Law Review. He clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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1.0 hour of CLE credit will be offered.

Please RSVP by July 10, 2015; space very limited.