Jeannie Suk Gersen

Jeannie Suk Gersen maintains a distinguished position as both a legal scholar and professor and cultural commentator because of her deep understanding of constitutional law and criminal law and procedure and family law and law-art-fashion-performing arts intersections. The John H. Watson, Jr. Professorship of Law at Harvard Law School belongs to Jeannie Suk Gersen who joined the faculty in 2006. Gersen worked as a Supreme Court clerk for Justice David H. Souter before joining Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit where she gained experiences that shaped her academic and teaching work.

She moved to Queens New York with her family at age six after being born in Seoul South Korea. The academic path of Gersen included earning her B.A. from Yale University in 1995 followed by her D.Phil in Modern Languages from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar in 1999. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002 after being selected as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. She contributes to The New Yorker through regular articles which examine legal and cultural matters with deep understanding.

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