Professor Jeannie Suk

Assistant Professor of Law

Short Biography

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.

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Appointments

Assistant Professor of Law, 2006
Senior Fellow, Humanities Center at Harvard, 2009-10

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
Fashion Law

Selected Publications

Suk, Jeannie. "The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse," 110 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2010).

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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Hemphill, C. Scott & Jeannie Suk. "The Squint Test," Slate, May 13, 2009.
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Suk, Jeannie. "Coming of Age with Clarence," Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2007.
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Suk, Jeannie. "Criminal Law Comes Home," 116 Yale Law Journal 2 (2006).
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Suk, Jeannie. "Originality," 115 Harvard Law Review 1988 (2002).
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Contact

Office: Griswold 300
           Harvard Law School
           1525 Massachusetts Avenue
           Cambridge MA 02138
Phone: 617/496-8834
Email: jsuk@law.harvard.edu
Assistant: Sandra Mays, 617/496-3358, mays@law.harvard.edu