Julie Suk

Julie Chi-hye Suk is a leading legal scholar of constitutional amendment, equality, and feminism in the United States and globally. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles in law reviews and edited volumes, Suk is the author of two books, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2020) and After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023). In 2023-24, she was awarded a visiting scholarship at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she worked on her next book projects on the constitutional amendment process and reforming the Supreme Court. She is also a frequent commentator in the media on these areas of research, with publications in the New York Times, the New Republic, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and other outlets.

Professor Suk joined the Fordham faculty after three years at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she served as dean for Master’s Programs and professor of sociology, political science, and liberal studies. Before that, Suk was a Professor of Law for 13 years at Cardozo Law School in New York. She has also taught as a visiting professor at the law schools at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, and UCLA. She has also been a fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome.

Suk received her doctorate in politics from Oxford University (where she held a Marshall Scholarship) and her J.D. from Yale Law School (where she studied on a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans). Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Selected publications:

A World Without Roe: The Constitutional Future of Unwanted Pregnancy, William & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).

Justice Ginsburg’s Cautious Legacy for the Equal Rights Amendment, 110 Georgetown L. J. 1391 (2022).

A Dangerous Imbalance: Pauli Murray’s Equal Rights Amendment and the Path to Equal Power, 107 Virginia Law Review Online 3 (2021).

Liberal Constitutionalism and Economic Inequality, 85 University of Chicago Law Review 369 (with Rosalind Dixon) (2018).

An Equal Rights Amendment for the Twenty-First Century: Bringing Global Constitutionalism Home, 28 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 381 (2017) (quoted in the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Report 116-378, Removing the Deadline for the Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, January 16, 2020).

Quotas and Consequences: A Transnational Re-evaluation, in Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law (Deborah Hellman & Sophia Moreau eds.), Oxford University Press (2014).

The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife Selling in The Mayor of Casterbridge, in Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel (Alison LaCroix & Martha Nussbaum eds.) Oxford University Press (2013).