Judith Resnik

(Spring 2012)

Office:	Jerome Greene Hall, Room 849 435 W 116th Street New York NY 10027
Tel:	203-432-1447
Email:	judith.resnik@law.columbia.edu

Assistant Info

Name:	Peter Graham
Phone:	(212) 854-2693
Email:	pgraha@law.columbia.edu

Education

Bryn Mawr, B.A., 1972
N.Y.U., J.D., 1975

Biography
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about federalism, procedure, courts, equality, and citizenship. She has also recently received an appointment for a five-year term as an Honorary Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London.

Professor Resnik has chaired the Sections on Procedure, on Federal Courts, and on Women in Legal Education of the American Association of Law Schools. She is a Managerial Trustee of the International Association of Women Judges and the founding director of Yale's Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and Fund, which funds fellowships for law graduates and for undergraduates at certain colleges, and runs colloquia and seminars. She also served as a co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum of Yale University. Professor Resnik is also an occasional litigator; she argued Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter, decided in 2009 by the United States Supreme Court. Professor Resnik has also testified before Congress, before rulemaking committees of the federal judiciary, and before the House of Commons of Canada.

In 1998, Professor Resnik was the recipient of the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the Commission on Women of the American Bar Association. In 2001, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002, a member of the American Philosophical Society, where she delivered the Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture in 2005. In 2008, Professor Resnik received the Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. In 2010, she was named a recipient of the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Prize, awarded to outstanding faculty in higher education in the fields of psychology or law.

Publications
Books include:

Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (with Dennis Curtis, Yale University Press, 2011).

Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender (co-edited with Seyla Benhabib, NYU 2009), Federal Courts Stories (co-edited with Vicki C. Jackson, Foundation Press 2010).