Fall 2024 – After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

An Evening with
Julie Suk and Rosalie Abella

Presented by New England Law Review

November 7, 2024 at 7:00pm, New England Law Boston Cherry Room

Join us for an engaging event featuring Julie C. Suk, author of After Misogyny, as she explores the deep-seated misogyny embedded within legal systems worldwide. This thought-provoking book challenges the notion that misogyny simply stems from individual animus, arguing instead that it is rooted in societal structures that empower men and undervalue women’s contributions, particularly their unpaid labor. Suk, alongside Retired Justice Rosalie Abella, will discuss how current laws, from antidiscrimination measures to abortion policies, often perpetuate women’s sacrifices by rendering them invisible.

In this insightful talk, Suk will illuminate her vision for a transformative approach to constitutional democracy, which she terms “constitutionalism of care.” Drawing on examples from global constitutional reforms, she will inspire us to rethink the foundational norms that govern society and reimagine how we value women’s reproductive and caregiving work.

Julie Chi-Hye Suk
Honorable Deborah A. Batts Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.

Julie 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 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.