Martin D. Ginsburg | |
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Born | Martin David Ginsburg June 10, 1932 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Died | June 27, 2010 Washington, DC, U.S. |
(aged 78)
Nationality | American |
Fields | Taxation law |
Institutions | Georgetown University Law Center |
Alma mater |
Harvard Law School Cornell University |
Influenced | David Schizer |
Notable awards | 2006 American Bar Association Tax Section's Distinguished Service Award Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel Honoree, Martin D. Ginsburg Chair at GULC SNYU, Outstand Achiev Awd Martin Abzug Good Guy Awd 1996 Marshall-Wythe Medallion, Coll. of William and Mary Sch. Law |
Spouse | Ruth Bader (m. 1954) |
Notes | |
Martin David Ginsburg (June 10, 1932 – June 27, 2010) was an internationally renowned taxation law expert. He was a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. and of counsel to the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
Ginsburg was born to Morris and Evelyn (née Bayer) Ginsburg and grew up on New York's Long Island. His father was a department store executive. Ginsburg earned an A.B. from Cornell University in 1953 and a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1958. He was a star on Cornell's golf team. Ginsburg finished a year at law school and married Ruth Joan Bader after her graduation from Cornell. That same year, Ginsburg, an ROTC Officer in the Army Reserve, was called up for active duty, and stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Ginsburg took advantage of his undergraduate training in chemistry to work in the mess hall. In 1956, he returned to law school and his wife also entered Harvard Law School. During his third year at Harvard, Ginsburg endured two operations and radiation therapy to treat testicular cancer.
After graduating from law school in 1958, Ginsburg joined the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in New York in 1959 and in the District of Columbia in 1980.