David Schizer. Photo: Columbia Law SchoolUpdated 8:52 p.m.
Columbia Law School professor David Schizer will be the next occupant of an endowed chair at Georgetown University Law Center named after Martin Ginsburg, the late husband of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Schizer is a professor of law and economics at Columbia, and served as its dean from 2004 to 2014. He clerked for Justice Ginsburg in 1994 and 1995. He will teach a tax law and public finance workshop at Georgetown next spring.
"David Schizer is an extraordinarily gifted scholar of tax law and policy and a wonderful teacher, and he left a great mark as dean at Columbia. We are delighted that he will be visiting at Georgetown, and he is the ideal choice to hold the Ginsburg Chair. Marty Ginsburg was an important mentor for David, who also clerked for Justice Ginsburg," Georgetown dean William Treanor said in announcing the appointment of Schizer.
Before his death in 2010, Martin Ginsburg was a professor at Georgetown and was known as a leading scholar in tax law. He also was of counsel to Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
Businessman and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot endowed the chair in Ginsburg's name in 1986. Fried Frank did Perot's legal work, and Perot and Ginsburg became friends after Ginsburg helped resolve tax issues relating to a deal with General Motors. "We are deeply grateful to H. Ross Perot for his generosity in endowing this chair, a fitting tribute to Marty's great contributions as a lawyer, a scholar and a teacher," Treanor said.
Ginsburg himself never filled the chair, and it was only occupied after his death. Harvard Law School professor Daniel Halperin was the first to hold the position, teaching at Georgetown last year.
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