From Parchment to Practice

Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He also co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an National Science Foundation-funded data set cataloging the world's constitutions since 1789. He is the author of several books, including How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (with Aziz Huq, 2018), Comparative Constitutional Law (with Rosalind Dixon, 2011), and The Endurance of National Constitutions (with Zachary Elkins and James Melton, 2009).Aziz Huq is Frank and Bernice Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and researches in constitutional law. He is the author of How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (with Tom Ginsburg, 2018). His scholarship has won awards from the Association of American Law Schools, and been published in leading legal and peer-reviewed journals. Previously, Huq was Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice, and a Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.