Jane C. Ginsburg Bio

Jane C. Ginsburg is an American attorney who is best known for being the daughter of the United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and law professor Martin Ginsburg. He is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School. Additionally, Carol Ginsburg directs the law school’s Kernochan Center For Law, Media, and the Arts. In 2011, she was elected to the British Academy.

Jane C. Ginsburg Education

Carol Ginsburg attended the University of Chicago where she received her B.A. and M.A. degrees. She then received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, a DEA with a Fulbright grant (1985), and a Doctor of Law degree (1995) from Panthéon-Assas University. At Harvard, Carol Ginsburg served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge John Gibbons of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Jane C. Ginsburg Age

She was born on July 21, 1955, in Freeport, New York, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 21st of July every year. Jane Carol Ginsburg is 68 years old.

Jane C. Ginsburg Height

Carol Ginsburg stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches.

Jane C. Ginsburg Parents / Family

Jane C is the daughter of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Martin Ginsburg, both of whom formerly served on the Columbia Law School faculty. Justice Ginsburg and Jane were the first mother-daughter pair ever to serve on the same law faculty in the United States. Her brother, James Steven Ginsburg, is the founder of Cedille Records.

Jane C. Ginsburg Father

Jane C’s father, Martin D. Ginsburg, was an American lawyer who specialized in tax law. Martin Ginsburg taught law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and was of counsel to the American law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He died from cancer on June 27, 2010.

Jane C. Ginsburg Mother

Jane C is the daughter of Ruth Bader Ginsburg the late American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. She joined the Court in 2009, after O’Connor’s retirement, and she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court.

Jane C’s mother died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer, at the age of 87. One day before Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, she was honored on Constitution Day and was awarded the 2020 Liberty Medal by the National Constitution Center. Following her death, over $20 million was donated to ActBlue.

Jane C. Ginsburg Husband

Jane C is married to George Spera since 1981. Her husband works for the law firm Shearman & Sterling. The couple is blessed with two children, a son Paul Spera and a daughter, Clara Spera. Their son who is an actor graduated from Yale in 2008 with a double major in French and theater studies. Their daughter graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017. She is married to Scottish actor Rory Boyd; the pair met at the University of Cambridge and now live in New York.

Jane C. Ginsburg Net Worth

Jane C has an estimated net worth of around $2 Million.

The table below answers some of the frequently asked questions about Ginsburg.