Join us for "The Supreme Court and the Future of American Democracy," a conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law. The conversation will explore the recent Supreme Court decisions and their impact on the 2024 Election and beyond. The conversation will be moderated by Herschel Nachlis, Research Assistant Professor of Government and Associate Director and Senior Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center; and Sonu Bedi, Joel Parker 1811 Professor in Law and Political Science; Hans '80 and Kate Morris Director of the Ethics Institute; Professor of Government.

Jeannie Suk Gersen is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught courses on constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, family law, discrimination, sexual assault and harassment, campus and workplace misconduct, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. She is a Contributing Writer and legal correspondent for The New Yorker, for which she covers the Supreme Court and other important legal developments.

Professor Gersen was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1979 when she was six, settling in Queens, New York. She attended Hunter College High School and received the school’s Distinguished Graduate Award (an honor also awarded to Elena Kagan and Lin-Manuel Miranda). As a teenager, she was a student at the School of American Ballet and studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division.

Professor Gersen earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1995, a D.Phil in Modern Languages (French literature) in 1999 from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School where she was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. She served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She served as an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. In 2006 she joined the Harvard Law School faculty and became the first Asian American woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School in 2010.

She has written three books and many articles in scholarly journals and general media. Her book, At Home in the Law, was awarded the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Prize for the best law and society book of the year. Her Korean memoir, The World I Wanted to See, was a bestseller in Korea and China. She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and Harvard Law School’s Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence.

She is married to Jacob Gersen, has two children and two stepchildren, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This event is part of the 2024 Election Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and Dartmouth Dialogues. The Speaker Series is part of the Fall 2024 term Government and Public Policy Course, "The 2024 Election," taught by Professor Russell Muirhead, Professor Herschel Nachlis, and Professor William Wohlforth.

Registration is highly encouraged for both in-person and virtual attendance.

To register for the program, visit:http://dartgo.org/24SukGersen.