Jeannie Suk

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Jeannie Suk Gersen
Born
Jeannie Suk

1973 (age 51–52)
Seoul, South Korea
Education Yale University (BA)
St Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil)
Harvard University (JD)
Occupations
  • Law professor
  • author
Employer Harvard Law School
Spouses
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(m. 1999;div. 2011)​

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. [1]

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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, as 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]

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.

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. [6] [4] She was awarded the prestigious Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2024. [7]

Bibliography

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. [8] She has also published on intellectual property protection for fashion design. [9] [4] Suk is a contributing writer for New Yorker magazine. [10]

Books

Essays and reporting

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. [11] [12]

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. ↑ "Awards". American Academy of Sciences & Letters. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
  8. ↑ Gersen, Jacob; Suk, Jeannie (2016). The Sex Bureaucracy . 104 California L. Rev. 881. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  9. ↑ Muther, Christopher (November 18, 2010). "25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Jeannie Suk". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  10. ↑ Suk, Jeannie (October 16, 2016). "What 'Divorce' Understands About Marriage". New Yorker. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  11. ↑ Gibson, Lydialyle (February 9, 2021). "Due Process". Harvard Magazine .
  12. ↑ "A "Natural" Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims". Boston Globe. January 29, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
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