Jeannie Suk Gersen
Born
Jeannie Suk

1973 (age 50–51)
Seoul, South Korea
Known forScholar of criminal and family law
Spouses
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(m. 1999; div. 2011)​
Academic background
EducationYale University (BA)
St Hugh's College, Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Harvard University (JD)
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard Law School

Jeannie Suk Gersen (born 1973) is a professor of law at Harvard Law School. She became the first Asian American woman awarded tenure at Harvard Law School in 2010.[1]

Biography

Suk attended Hunter College High School, graduating in 1991.[2] In 1995, Suk received her B.A. in Literature from Yale University, and a D.Phil at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1999, where she was a Marshall Scholar.[3] In 2002, she graduated with a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.[4] After law school, she clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2003 term.[5]

She then worked as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. In 2006, Suk became an assistant professor at Harvard Law School, making her the second woman of minority background to join the faculty (after Lani Guinier).[1] In 2010, Suk was granted tenure; she was the first Asian American woman awarded tenure in the law school's history.[1] She is currently the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law.

Career and writing

She was named one of the "Best Lawyers Under 40" by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and a "Top Woman of the Law" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.[6][4]

Her writing focuses on criminal law and family law.[4] In 2016, she co-wrote an article with her husband on modern regulation of sex that argued most practices are counter-productive.[7] She has also published on intellectual property protection for fashion design.[8][4] Suk is a contributing writer for New Yorker magazine.[9]

Bibliography

Books

  • Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Césaire, Glissant, Condé, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0198160182.
  • At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy, Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0300113983.
  • A Light Inside: An Odyssey of Art, Life and Law, Kong & Park, 2013. ISBN 978-8956056326

Essays and reporting

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Notes
  1. ↑ Online version is titled "If Roe v. Wade is overturned, what's next?".

Personal life

In 1999, Suk married Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman with whom she has two children.[3] Her second marriage is to Sidley Austin Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Jacob E. Gersen.[10][11]

Suk's sister, Julie Suk, is a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Weinberg, Zoe A.Y. (October 27, 2010). "Law School Tenures First Asian-American Woman". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Eleven affiliates win Soros Fellowship for New Americans". Harvard Gazette. April 5, 2001. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "WEDDINGS; Noah Feldman and Jeannie Suk". The New York Times. August 15, 1999. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Biography of Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law". Harvard Law School. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Scholars in Residence: Fall 2015: Jeannie Suk". University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Top Women of Law". Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. December 17, 2010. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ Gersen, Jacob; Suk, Jeannie (2016). The Sex Bureaucracy. 104 California L. Rev. 881. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  8. ↑ Muther, Christopher (November 18, 2010). "25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Jeannie Suk". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  9. ↑ Suk, Jeannie (October 16, 2016). "What 'Divorce' Understands About Marriage". New Yorker. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  10. ↑ Gibson, Lydialyle (9 February 2021). "Due Process". Harvard Magazine.
  11. ↑ "A "Natural" Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims". Boston Globe. January 29, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  • Jeannie Suk (31:54 mins video) YouTube. Last Lecture Series, Harvard Law School.
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