Jeannie Suk

Jeannie Suk
Born	1973 Seoul, Korea
Citizenship	USA
Institutions	Harvard Law School
Alma mater	Yale University Oxford University Harvard Law School

Jeannie Suk is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and award winning writer.

Biography

Born in Seoul, Korea, Suk immigrated to the United States at the age of six. She attended Hunter College High School. Suk received her B.A. from Yale University in 1995, her D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1999, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002. She was married to Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School. They have two children.

Career and writing

She is the first Asian American woman to hold tenure at Harvard Law School. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Marshall Scholarship, and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She has been named a "Top Woman of the Law" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

She served as a law clerk to Associate Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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
• At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy, Yale University Press, 2009

External links

• Suk's faculty page
• Suk's book
• http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2010/03/07/should_the_law_protect_fashion_from_knockoffs/
• http://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Law-Revolution-Transforming/dp/0300113986