Professor of Law
A.B., Cornell; J.D., Harvard

Office Location: McDonough 560

Assistant: Tselane-Danielle Holloway

Phone: 9403

Biography

Professor Ginsburg specializes in teaching tax at the Law Center. His numerous professional activities in the tax field include positions as chair of the Committee on Simplification of the American Bar Associations Tax Section, chair of the New York State Bar Association's Tax Section, and consultant to the American Law Institute's Federal Income Tax Project. He has also served as a member of advisory groups to the Committee of Internal Revenue and the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. Before moving to Washington in 1980 when his wife got a good job here, Professor Ginsburg was the Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University. He was a visiting professor at Stanford in the spring of 1978, at Harvard in the spring of 1986, at Chicago in the spring of 1990, and at New York University in the spring of 1993. Professor Ginsburg is co-author, with Jack S. Levin of Chicago, of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, a semi-annually updated treatise which addresses tax and other aspects of this exciting subject. The portions of the treatise written by Professor Ginsburg are, he is certain, easily identified and quite superb.