Jeannie Suk

Jeannie Suk
Born	1973 (age 50–51)
Residence	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A.) Harvard Law School (J.D.)

Jeannie Suk (born 1973) is a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Biography

She attended Hunter College High School, graduating in 1991. Suk received her B.A. in Literature from Yale University in 1995, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002 with the support of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. She clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 2002 to 2003, and for Justice David H. Souter at the Supreme Court of the United States from 2003 to 2004. She married in 1999. The marriage ended in divorce in 2011. She has two children, a son and a daughter. In 2014, Suk remarried her colleague, Jacob E Gersen, a professor at Harvard law school, and has two stepchildren.

Career and writing

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.

Her writing focuses on criminal law and family law. She has also published on intellectual property protection for fashion design.

Her second book, "At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy," from Yale University Press, was awarded the Law and Society Association's prize for most outstanding book of 2009.

Books

• Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Césaire, Glissant, Condé, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0198160182.
• At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy, Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0300113983.

External links

• Suk's faculty page
• Should the law protect fashion from knockoffs?
• Louboutin and the little red litigious shoes