Jeannie Suk
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Dr. 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.[citation needed] Her work focuses on the nexus of criminal law and family law. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she was a prosecuting assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 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.
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 (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Born in Seoul, Korea, Suk immigrated to the United States at the age of six. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, Pre-College Division, and of Hunter College High School; she also studied at the School of American Ballet. She is married to Noah Feldman, a professor at New York University School of Law.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/suk/
Criminal Law Comes Home, 116 Yale L.J. 2 (2006) http://www.yalelawjournal.org/abstract.asp?id=605
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