“...exciting recent developments provide a rare opportunity for organizing a dialogue between scholars working on similar themes at the juncture of persisting old questions, anti-universalist ideas and various levels of localist approaches.”



Sukhbaatar Sumiya
Kyushu University

Ginsburg, Tom
Professor of Law
University of Illinois

Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective.

He holds B.A., J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

One of his books, Judicial Review in New Democracies, (Cambridge University Press, 2003) won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for best book on law and courts in 2004, and he has authored or edited four other volumes.

Ginsburg serves as co-director of the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Illinois and has consulted with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform.

Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands.

Annual Law Conference Series

  2006 Law Conference
   Law Conference/Alumni Symposium


  2007 Law Conference
   Corporate Governance in East Asia