Jane Carol Ginsburg (born July 21, 1955) is an American attorney. She is the

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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

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, a

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with a

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(1985), and a Doctor of Law degree (1995) from

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. At Harvard, she served as an editor of the ''

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''. After law school, she clerked for Judge

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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 Martin David Ginsburg (June 10, 1932 – June 27, 2010) was an American lawyer who specialized in tax law and was the husband of American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He taught law at Georgetown University Law Center ...

, 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 Cedille Records,

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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

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Personal life

In 1981, Ginsburg married George T. Spera Jr. of

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, New Jersey. Her husband works for the law firm

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. 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.

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