Julie Suk

Julie Chi-hye Suk’s scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform, feminist constitutional movements, and the law, policy, and institutions that shape equality and democracy in the United States and globally. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles in law reviews and edited volumes, Suk is the author of three books, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2020); After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023); and The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court (forthcoming, Fall 2026).

In 2023-24, she was a Visiting Scholar a Russell Sage Foundation, where she worked on her next book project on the past and future of amending the U.S. Constitution. At Fordham, she has co-hosted two podcasts, Constitutional Crisis Hotline (2022-23) and Democracy’s Future (2023-24). 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. She serves on the board of Democracy Restated and on the academic advisory board of the American Constitution Society.

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:

The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court (University of California Press, forthcoming 2026).

Not the People: How Courts Cut Voters Out of Amendment, 77 Florida Law Review 1337 (2025).

Amendment: A Right of the People, 112 California Law Review 2251 (2025).

A World Without Roe: The Constitutional Future of Unwanted Pregnancy, 64 William & Mary L. Rev. 443 (2022).

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

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).

Are Gender Stereotypes Bad for Women?  Rethinking Antidiscrimination Law and Work-Family Conflict, 110 Columbia Law Review 1 (2010)