Julie C. Suk

2012-2013 Academic Year

Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Comparative Law
• Antidiscrimination Law
• Procedural Institutions
• Employment Law and Policy

Education

• Harvard University A.B. 1997, English and French Literature
• University of Oxford M.Sc. 1998, Politics
• Yale Law School J.D. 2003
• University of Oxford D.Phil. (Marshall Scholar) 2004, Politics

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Yeshiva University

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Suk will teach a section of Civil Procedure in the Fall 2012 term. She will also teach the course Discrimination: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, as well as the course Comparative Law: Western Legal Orders in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Julie Suk is a leading scholar of comparative equality law. Her research has developed a transnational perspective on the theory and practice of antidiscrimination law. Her articles compare European and American approaches to a broad range of problems, including the stakes of criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement of antidiscrimination norms, the state's role in mitigating work-family conflict, the law of Holocaust denial and hate speech, constitutional limits on race-consciousness and affirmative action, and the rise of gender quotas in Europe. Her work has appeared in Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, and other venues, including European publications. She has also commented in the media, including the New York Times, on transatlantic legal comparisons. Last year, she chaired the Association of American Law Schools' (AALS) Section on Employment Discrimination, and is currently the the Chair of the AALS Comparative Law section. She was a Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a Law and Public Affairs fellow at Princeton University. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and UCLA law schools. Before entering law teaching, she clerked for Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She obtained her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard in English and French literature, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar.

Representative Publications

• Suk, Julie C. "Criminal and Civil Approaches to Antidiscrimination Enforcement in Europe," 14 European Anti-Discrimination Law Review 11 (2012).
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• Suk, Julie C. "Gender Parity and State Legitimacy: From Public Office to Corporate Boards," 10 International Journal of Constitutional Law 449 (2012).
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• Suk, Julie C. "Are Gender Stereotypes Bad for Women? Rethinking Antidiscrimination Law and Work-Family Conflict," 110 Columbia Law Review 1 (2010).
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• Suk, Julie C. "Discrimination at Will: Job Security Protections and Equal Employment Opportunity in Conflict," 60 Stanford Law Review 73 (2007).
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