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

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. She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. In 2011, Ginsburg was elected to the

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. Ginsburg is the daughter of Supreme Court Justice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by Presiden ...

Career

An expert on

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, Ginsburg has written various treatises and law review articles. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the

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, her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, a

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with a

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(1985), and a

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degree (1995) from

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. At Harvard, she served as an editor of the '' Harvard Law Review''. After law school, she clerked for Judge John Gibbons of the

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. Ginsburg was elected to the

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in 2013. She is the daughter of

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Justice

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 is founder of

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James Steven Ginsburg James Steven Ginsburg (born September 8, 1965) is an American music producer. He is founder and president of Cedille Records, a classical label he launched in 1989 while a student at the University of Chicago. He is the son of the late United St ...

In popular culture

In the 2018, feature film ''

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'', 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,

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. Her husband works for the law firm Shearman & Sterling. They have two children. Their son, Paul Spera, an actor, graduated from Yale in 2008. Their daughter, Clara Spera, graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017. She is married to Scottish actor Rory Boyd.

References

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