Biography

Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about federalism, procedure, feminism, and local and global interventions to diminish inequalities and subordination.

Professor Resnik's books include 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).  Forthcoming Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (with Dennis Curtis, Yale University Press).  Her recent articles include Detention, The War on Terror, and the Federal Courts (Columbia Law Jaw Journal, 2010); Law as Affiliation: “Foreign” Law, Democratic Federalism, and the Sovereigntism of the Nation State (International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2008); Courts: In and Out of Sight, Site, and Cite, 53 Villanova Law Review 771 (2008); Interdependent Federal Judiciaries: Puzzling about Why and How to Value the Independence of Which Judges, 137 Daedalus 28 (2008); Ratifying Kyoto at the Local Level: Sovereigntism, Federalism, and Translocal Organizations of Government Actors (TOGAs), 50 Arizona Law Review 709 (with Joshua Civin and Joseph Frueh, 2008); Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses, (with Dennis E. Curtis, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 2007); and Law's Migration: American Exceptionalism, Silent Dialogues, and Federalism's Multiple Ports of Entry (The Yale Law Journal, 2006).

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 served as a co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum of Yale University. She is the founding director of Yale Law School's Liman Public Interest Program and Fund, which funds fellowships for law graduates, for undergraduates at certain colleges, and runs colloquia and seminars.

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.  She is a recipient of the Margaret Brent Award from the Commission on Women of the American Bar Association and in 2008, she received the Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

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 the Congress, before rulemaking committees of the federal judiciary, and before the House of Commons of Canada.  Professor Resnik is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and NYU Law School, where she was a Arthur Hays Fellow.  She was recently appointed to a five year term as an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University College London.