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| | | Name: | Professor Judith Resnik | | | Institution: | Yale Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | | | | |
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on procedure, large-scale litigation, federal courts and federalism, feminist theory and transnational equality laws. Prior to joining Yale, she was the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center. She has also been a visiting professor at New York University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Chicago Law Schools. Professor Resnik is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and New York University School of Law, where she held an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellowship.
Throughout her career, Judith Resnik has helped to shape understandings of how the federal judiciary increasingly functions as a corporate body, with multiple tiers and kinds of judges who are often managerial in their efforts to encourage settlement in lieu of adjudication. Her work in this field demonstrates the increasing privatization of courts, analyzes the forces producing this trend, and proposes interventions to preserve the public dimension of adjudicatory processes. In addition to books for students such as Adjudication and its Alternatives: An Introduction to Procedures (co-authored with Owen Fiss, 2003) and Processes of the Law: An Introduction to Courts and Their Alternatives (2003), she is the author of the chapter Civil Processes in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (eds. Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet, 2003). She recently coauthored a book for the general public with Dennis Curtis entitled Representing Justice (2010), which gives an overview of the historical representations of justice. Representing Justice won the Scribes 2012 Book Award, two PROSE Awards for Excellence, and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. Her articles include Trial as Error, Jurisdiction as Injury: Transforming the Meaning Article III , 113 Harvard Law Review 924 (2000); and Managerial Judges, 96 Harvard Law Review 374 (1982). Her work has also prompted her to become one of a few American scholars thinking about the cultural import of government construction of courthouses and about the iconography of justice.
Professor Resnik also brings her interest in feminist theory to discussions of federalism. She has helped to illuminate how assumptions about the roles of women and men have influenced the allocation of authority to state and federal systems in the United States (e.g. her essay Categorical Federalism: Jurisdiction, Gender and the Globe, 111 Yale Law Journal 619 (2001) and have affected the openness of American law to transnational equality movements.
Professor Resnik pursues her projects in both their theoretical and their practical dimensions. She has chaired the Section on Procedure, the Section of Federal Courts, and the Section on Women in Legal Education of the American Association of Law Schools, has served on committees of the American Bar Association, and was a consultant to the Institute for Civil Justice of RAND. She was instrumental in persuading members of the federal judiciary to undertake studies of the effects of gender, and she served as a member of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force which, in 1994, was the first in the federal system to report on data collected by judges and lawyers in the nine states comprising the circuit. Professor Resnik has testified many times before congressional and judicial committees, including before the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Senate's role in the nomination process and before a committee of the Canadian House of Commons about how to select Supreme Court justices. She is also an occasional litigator and court-appointed expert. Currently, she is a member of the American Law Institute's project on Aggregate Litigation and a managerial trustee of the International Association of Women Judges.
At Yale, Professor Resnik organized a conference on Women, Justice, and Authority. She is a co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum, a university-wide group aimed at fostering scholarship about gender and community for women at Yale. She is also the founding director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and Fund, which provides fellowships to Yale Law School graduates and summer stipends to undergraduates at Yale, Brown, and Harvard, and which supports seminars and programs on public interest law for law students.
Professor Resnik has been honored by the National Association of Women Judges, and she has received the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association. The American Bar Foundation named her its Outstanding Scholar of the Year in 2008. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| | Name: | Ms. Kathleen M. Sullivan | | | Institution: | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Educated at Cornell and Oxford Universities, Kathleen Sullivan received her J.D. degree in 1981 from Harvard University Law School where she won the Ames Moot Court Competition and the George Leisure Award for Excellence in Advocacy. She served for nearly a decade on the faculty of Harvard Law School before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. She was a former Dean, and the Stanley Morrison Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University Law School until 2009. In 2009 she joined the law firm Quinn Emanuel as partner and Chair of the firm's national Appellate Practice.
Professor Sullivan is viewed by many as a leading teacher and scholar of constitutional law today. She is the author of numerous articles in the field and co-author with the late Gerald Gunther (APS, 1981) of the classic casebook Constitutional Law. She is in demand as a commentator on constitutional issues - in The New York Times and other publications' Op-Ed pages and on national media programs such as the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC's Nightline. A lucid and incisive lecturer, she is the recipient of teaching prizes at both Harvard and Stanford Universities. She was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
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