Jeannie Suk Gersen is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. She is also a Contributing Writer to The New Yorker, covering legal affairs and the Supreme Court. She is the author of three books and many scholarly articles. Her book, At Home in the Law, was awarded the Law and Society Association’s prize for best book. Early in her career, she served as a law clerk to David H. Souter on the United States Supreme Court and as a prosecutor in Manhattan. More recently, as a litigator, she won the first federal appellate case to allow constitutional equal-protection and due-process claims against the federal judiciary for sex discrimination and sexual harassment in employment. Gersen has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Marshall Scholar, and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. She has received the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence from Harvard Law School, and the Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. She serves on MacDowell’s Board of Directors. She joined the PEN America Board in 2025.
