She is the coeditor (with Seyla Benhabib) of the book, Migrations and Mobilities: Gender, Citizenship, and Borders -- forthcoming from NYU Press;currently, she is at work on a series of articles related to federalism, localism, and transnationalism including Law as Affiliation, “Foreign” Law, Democratic Federalism, and the Sovereigntism of the Nation State,(Int’l J. Const. L. 2007), Don't Sign Kyoto, Don't Cite Foreign Law: Sovereigntism, Federalism, and Transnational Organizations of Government Actors (TOGAs), (Ariz. L. Rev., forthcoming 2008), and Law's Migration: American Exceptionalism, Silent Dialogues, and Federalism's Multiple Ports of Entry (Yale Law Journal, 2006).
Another major project relates to the relationship between adjudication and democracy. A forthcoming book (with Dennis Curtis) is called Representing Justice: Adjudication’s Rise and Fall as Seen from Renaissance Iconography to 21st Century Courts. Published chapters include From "Rites" to "Rights of Audience: The Utilities and Contingencies of the Public's Role in Court-Based Processes (with Dennis E. Curtis) in the book Representation of Justice (Peter Lang, ed. 2007); and Whither and Whether Adjudication? (Boston University Law Review, 2006). Related essays are Judicial Selection and Democratic Theory: Demand, Supply, and Life Tenure (Cardozo Law Review, 2005); and Trial as Error, Jurisdiction as Injury: Transforming the Meaning of Article III (Harvard Law Review, 2000).
Professor Resnik is also engaged in problems of women's inequality. She co-founded Yale's Women Faculty Forum and just co-chaired an international conference on women and men in globalizing universities. She was a member of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force and has both researched and written about the role gender plays in adjudication. Her articles on these subjects include Categorical Federalism: Gender, Jurisdiction, and the Globe (Yale Law Journal, 2001); Asking About Gender in Courts (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1996) and The Effects of Gender: The Final Report of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force (July 1993).
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. The Liman Program currently supports eight graduate Fellows who are employed in post-law school public interest jobs for a year as well as undergraduate Fellows from Barnard, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Spelman, and Yale -- all of whom spend a summer doing public interest law related work. In addition, the Liman Program sponsors a reading group and a colloquium yearly at Yale Law School.
Judith Resnik is also an occasional litigator; she argued the United States Supreme Court case involving women's admission to the Rotary Club. Professor Resnik has testified many times before congressional and judicial committees. In the winter of 2007, she submitted testimony to the U.S. Senate in support of the Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2007.
In 2001, Professor Resnik was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002, a member of the American Philosophical Society, where in 2005 she delivered the Jayne Lecture. In 2008, she received the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award. Professor Resnik is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and NYU Law School. In 2006, she returned to Bryn Mawr to give the commencement speech.