Jeannie Suk

{{Infobox person

| name = Jeannie Suk Gersen

| birth_name = Jeannie Suk

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}}

| birth_place = Seoul, South Korea

| death_date =

| death_place =

| employer = Harvard Law School

| education = Yale University (BA)
St Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil)
Harvard University (JD)

| occupation = {{hlist|Law professor|author}}

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Noah R. Feldman|1999|2011|end=divorced}}
Jacob Gersen

}}

Jeannie Suk Gersen (born 1973) is an American legal scholar at Harvard Law School. She became the first Asian American woman awarded tenure at Harvard Law School in 2010.

Biography

Suk attended Hunter College High School, graduating in 1991.{{cite news|title=Eleven affiliates win Soros Fellowship for New Americans|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/04/eleven-affiliates-win-soros-fellowship-for-new-americans/|access-date=June 16, 2017|work=Harvard Gazette|date=April 5, 2001}} In 1995, Suk received her B.A. in literature from Yale University, and a D.Phil at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1999, as a Marshall Scholar. In 2002, she graduated with a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.{{cite web|title=Biography of Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law|url=http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10869/SukGersen/|publisher=Harvard Law School|access-date=June 17, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|title=Scholars in Residence: Fall 2015: Jeannie Suk|url=http://humanities.wisc.edu/research/scholars-in-residence/fall-2015-jeannie-suk/|publisher=University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities|access-date=June 17, 2017}}

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).{{cite news|last1=Weinberg|first1=Zoe A.Y.|title=Law School Tenures First Asian-American Woman|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/10/27/law-suk-school-guinier/|access-date=June 17, 2017|work=Harvard Crimson|date=October 27, 2010}} In 2010, Suk was granted tenure; she was the first Asian American woman awarded tenure in the law school's history. She is currently the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law.

Awards

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.{{cite news|title=Top Women of Law|url=http://masslawyersweekly.com/2010/12/17/top-women-of-law/|access-date=June 16, 2017|work=Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly|date=December 17, 2010}} She was awarded the prestigious Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Awards |url=https://academysciencesletters.org/awards/ |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=American Academy of Sciences & Letters |language=en-US}}

Bibliography

Her writing focuses on criminal law and family law. In 2016, she co-wrote an article with her husband on modern regulation of sex that argued most practices are counter-productive.Gersen, Jacob; Suk, Jeannie (2016). [https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1127467?ln=en The Sex Bureaucracy]. 104 California L. Rev. 881. Retrieved October 29, 2023. She has also published on intellectual property protection for fashion design.{{cite news |last1=Muther |first1=Christopher |date=November 18, 2010 |title=25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Jeannie Suk |url=http://archive.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2010/11/18/25_most_stylish_bostonians_of_2010____jeannie_suk/ |access-date=June 28, 2017 |work=Boston Globe}} Suk is a contributing writer for New Yorker magazine.{{cite news |last1=Suk |first1=Jeannie |date=October 16, 2016 |title=What 'Divorce' Understands About Marriage |url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-divorce-understands-about-marriage |access-date=June 14, 2017 |work=New Yorker}}

=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=

{{cite journal |author=Gersen, Jeannie Suk |author-link=Jeannie Suk |date=April 25 – May 2, 2022 |title=Beyond Roe |department=The Talk of the Town: Comment |journal=The New Yorker |volume=98 |issue=10 |pages=13–14 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned-whats-next }} Retitled online as "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.{{cite news|title=WEDDINGS; Noah Feldman and Jeannie Suk|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/15/style/weddings-noah-feldman-and-jeannie-suk.html|access-date=June 14, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=August 15, 1999}} Her second marriage is to Sidley Austin Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Jacob E. Gersen.{{Cite news|first= Lydialyle|last=Gibson |author-link= |title= Due Process |newspaper=Harvard Magazine|date=9 February 2021 |url= https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/03/features-jeannie-suk-gersen |access-date=}}{{cite news|title=A "Natural" Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims|url=https://www.boston.com/event/a-natural-experiment-consumer-confusion-and-food-claims-3822826|access-date=June 28, 2017|work=Boston Globe|date=January 29, 2017}}

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8_PEhw1_M Jeannie Suk] (31:54 mins video) YouTube. Last Lecture Series, Harvard Law School.
[https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/jeannie-suk-gersen/ Harvard faculty page]

Category:1973 births

Category:Living people

Category:Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford

Category:American academics of Korean descent

Category:American legal scholars

Category:American scholars of constitutional law

Category:American women academics

Category:American women lawyers

Category:American women legal scholars

Category:Harvard Law School alumni

Category:Harvard Law School faculty

Category:Hunter College High School alumni