Jeannie Suk

Assistant Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

Jeannie Suk is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She has been named a Guggenheim Fellow and appointed Senior Fellow of the Humanities Center at Harvard. 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. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 2002), where she was Chair of the Harvard Law Review's Articles office. Her writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Wall Street Journal, Slate, and elsewhere. Her most recent book, At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy, was published by Yale University Press.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2006

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. ""The Look in His Eyes": The Story of State v. Rusk and Rape Reform" in Criminal Law Stories (Robert Weisberg & Donna Coker eds., Foundation, forthcoming2010).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Suk, Jeannie. "The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse," 110 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2010).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Suk, Jeannie. At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy (Yale University Press 2009).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Suk, Jeannie. "Is Privacy a Woman?" 97 Georgetown Law Journal 485 (2009).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Hemphill, C. Scott & Jeannie Suk. "The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion," 61 Stanford Law Review 1147 (2009).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Hemphill, C. Scott & Jeannie Suk. "The Squint Test," Slate, May 13, 2009.
  Full text: WWW
  (Also published in Double X)
  
• Suk, Jeannie. "Criminal Law Comes Home," 116 Yale L.J. 2 (2006).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Suk, Jeannie. "Originality," 115 Harv. L. Rev. 1988 (2002).
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Bibliography

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