Jeannie Suk

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
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Jeannie Suk is an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is the first Asian 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 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. She was also an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, but only for a few months.

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 selected as a Marshall Scholar in 1995 and received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2001. While at Harvard, she served as Articles, Books, and Commentaries Chair of the Harvard 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 to Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard 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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