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In Congress, she has given Senate testimony on Title IX, and House testimony on law and innovation in the fashion industry. She is a contributing writer to the New Yorker.
Jeannie has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She graduated from Harvard Law School, where she was Chair of the Articles Office on the Harvard Law Review. Professor Gersen was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1979 when she was six, settling in Queens, New York.
As a teenager, she was a student at the School of American Ballet, and studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division.
Her Korean memoir of her childhood, “A Light Inside,” was a Korean best-seller. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of Harvard Law School’s Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit, and was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship. She has written three books and many articles in scholarly journals and general media. Her book, “At Home in the Law,” won the Law and Society Association's Herbert Jacob Prize for best law and society book of the year. She has been a TED speaker.
The Academy honors Dr. Gersen’s distinguished contributions to humanity’s pursuit of a social order that is humane, just, and free.
Jeannie Suk Gersen is John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard University. She served as an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She is a Contributing Writer for The New Yorker.
Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She has written three books and many articles in scholarly journals and general media.
Jeannie worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School. She attended Hunter College High School, graduating in 1991, and received the school’s Distinguished Graduate Award in 2016.
She is a Contributing Writer to The New Yorker.
October 2024
About Jeannie Suk Gersen
Jeannie Suk Gersen was born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrated to Queens, New York, with her family when she was six years old.
Jeannie received a BA from Yale and a DPhil from Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar.
In 2010, she became the first Asian American woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School. She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and Harvard Law School’s Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence.
Professor Gersen earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1995, a D.Phil in Modern Languages (French literature) in 1999 from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D.
In 2002 she graduated from Harvard Law School where she studied as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Her book, At Home in the Law, was awarded the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Prize for the best law and society book of the year. Her book At Home in the Law was awarded the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Prize for the best law and society book of the year.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Winner of the Barry Prize, 2024
The prize citation for Dr. Gersen’s Barry Prize reads:
Combining a profound knowledge of law and its development with keen insight into personal life, Jeannie Suk Gersen has contributed to both scholarly and popular understanding of how law shapes us even in the most intimate, sensitive, and private dimensions of our lives.