- Jeannie Suk
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birth_date =1973
birth_place =Seoul ,Korea
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workplaces =Harvard Law School
alma_mater =Yale University Oxford University Harvard Law School
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footnotes =Jeannie Suk is an assistant professor of law at
Harvard Law School . She is the firstAsian American woman to hold a tenure-track post there.Fact|date=March 2007 Her work focuses on the nexus of criminal law and family law. She served as a law clerk to Associate JusticeDavid H. Souter of theU.S. Supreme Court , and to JudgeHarry T. Edwards of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit . She was also an AssistantDistrict Attorney in Manhattan, but only for a few months.Suk received her
B.A. fromYale University in 1995, herD.Phil. fromOxford University in 1999, and herJ.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002. She was selected as aMarshall Scholar in 1995 and received the Paul & DaisySoros Fellowship for New Americans in 2001. While at Harvard, she served as Articles, Books, and Commentaries Chair of theHarvard Law Review . She is the author of "Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Césaire, Glissant, Condé" (Oxford University Press , 2001).Born in
Seoul, Korea , Suk immigrated to the United States at the age of six. She is married toNoah Feldman , a professor atHarvard Law School . They have two children.She is fluent in English, Korean, and French.
External links
* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/suk/ Suk's faculty page]
* [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198160182 Suk's book]
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