Julie C. Suk is professor of law at Fordham Law School. Her 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.
Suk has taught as a visiting professor at the law schools at Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Los Angeles. She has held visiting research fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guidi Carli in Rome, Princeton University, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Suk cohosted two podcasts, Constitutional Crisis Hotline (2022–23) and Democracy’s Future (2023–24) and has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other outlets. She serves on the academic advisory board of the American Constitution Society.
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). She is the 2026 recipient of Fordham University’s Distinguished Research Award.
Suk received a BA from Harvard University, a JD from Yale Law School (through a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship), and a DPhil in politics from Oxford University (through a Marshall Scholarship). She clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.