Ginsburg took senior status in October 2011, and joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in January 2012.

He dropped out in 1965 due to "boredom" and co-founded Operation Match, an early computer dating service based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ginsburg sold the company in 1968 and returned to Cornell, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial relations.

In 1983, Ginsburg joined the administration of President Ronald Reagan as a deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.

Ginsburg was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on September 23, 1986, to a seat on the District of Columbia Circuit vacated by Judge J. Skelly Wright.

[18] Ginsburg was also accused of a financial conflict of interest during his work in the Reagan Administration, but a Department of Justice investigation under the Ethics in Government Act determined the allegation was baseless.

[19] Due to the allegations, Ginsburg withdrew his name from consideration on November 7,[2][3] and remained on the Court of Appeals, serving as chief judge for most of the 2000s.

[20][21] Ginsburg married the public relations consultant Deecy Gray in 2007 in a ceremony at the U.S. Supreme Court performed by Chief Justice John Roberts.