Jeannie Suk

Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

Jeannie Suk is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she has taught criminal law, criminal procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. Before joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was educated at Yale (B.A. 1995) and at Oxford (D.Phil 1999) where she was a Marshall Scholar, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 2002). She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her most recent book, At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy, was awarded the Law and Society Association's Herbert Jacob Prize. Her writing has also appeared in Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Wall Street Journal, Slate, and elsewhere. She has given congressional testimony on law and innovation in the fashion industry.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2006
• Professor of Law, 2011

Education

• Yale University B.A. 1995, Literature
• Oxford University D. Phil 1999
• Harvard Law School J.D. 2002

Research Interests

• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Family Law
• Art Law
• Entertainment Law

Representative Publications

• Suk, Jeannie. "Little Red (Litigious) Shoes," New York Times, January 22, Sunday Review, at SR14.
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• Suk, Jeannie. "Redistributing Rape," 48 American Criminal Law Review 111 (2011) (reviewing Sharon Dolovich, "Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison" (2011)).
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• Suk, Jeannie. "The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse," 110 Columbia Law Review 1193 (2010).
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• Suk, Jeannie. ""The Look in His Eyes": The Story of State v. Rusk and Rape Reform" in Criminal Law Stories (Robert Weisberg & Donna Coker eds., Foundation Press, forthcoming 2012).
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• Hemphill, C. Scott & Jeannie Suk. "Schumer's Project Runway," Wall Street Journal, Aug. 24, 2010, Op-Ed, at A13.
  
• Suk, Jeannie. "Is Privacy a Woman?" 97 Georgetown Law Journal 485 (2009).
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• Suk, Jeannie. At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy (Yale University Press 2009).
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• Hemphill, C. Scott & Jeannie Suk. "The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion," 61 Stanford Law Review 1147 (2009).
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• Suk, Jeannie. "Criminal Law Comes Home," 116 Yale L.J. 2 (2006).
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• Suk, Jeannie. "Originality," 115 Harv. L. Rev. 1988 (2002).
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Bibliography

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