Jeannie Suk Gersen

On Tuesday evening, one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for President Claudine Gay’s dismissal and less than 12 hours after Harvard Corporation…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Last week, Sandra Day O’Connor died, just months after the Supreme Court effectively overruled one of her most important…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Last week, the Supreme Court issued a first-ever code of conduct for Justices. It is not a set of…

The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration given to the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash point since the Supreme Court ended affirmative action…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In 2016, Georgetown University announced a first-of-its-kind change to its admissions policy. In addition to the long-standing legacy preferences…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: We have long known that Donald Trump is a font of falsehoods. Embedded in the recounting of national horrors…

The Harvard University law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has been following the Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) legal challenges to affirmative action closely — more…

Story by Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law: Race-conscious affirmative action, in which schools consider applicants’ race as a factor in…

[Podcast] In October, the Supreme Court heard two cases—against Harvard and U.N.C.—that are expected to bring about the end of affirmative action at American colleges…

Editorial by Jeannie Suk Gersen, Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law: What happens after the Supreme Court ends affirmative action, as…

An article by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the next few weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to declare it unlawful for colleges and universities to…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Donald Trump has been so many “first” and “unprecedented” things since he entered the political and legal scene that…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Law and ethics are two different things. In 1991, the year Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court,…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the early years of our country, public men who felt maligned could end up killing over it. The…

Harvard law professors and two other attorneys have asked to stop representing a former North Carolina public defender suing the federal judiciary for allegedly mismanaging…

A former federal public defender in North Carolina can depose the chief judge of the Fourth Circuit in her sexual harassment suit against the federal…

The U.S. government asked a North Carolina federal judge to deny a former assistant federal public defender’s deposition of Chief Circuit Judge Roger L. Gregory…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In 2016, Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Last fall, some mysterious new activity appeared on the Supreme Court’s docket. It was one week after oral arguments…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: More than half of abortions in the United States are accomplished with pills, rather than with surgeries. So, when…