Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 15, 2008|Volume 36, Number 18

Judith Resnik

Judith Resnik wins prestigious honor
for her ‘outstanding scholarship’ in law

Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has received The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award, presented annually to an individual “who has engaged in outstanding scholarship in the law or in government.”

Resnik will accept her award on Feb. 10 at the Fellows Annual Banquet at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

“Judith Resnik has had a profound impact on the rule of law and administration of justice in our country,” said Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh. “Her perceptive and powerful scholarship makes her a most fitting successor to the past recipients from our school.”

At the Law School, Resnik teaches about federalism, procedure, constitutional relationships among branches of the U.S. government, large-scale litigation, feminism, and local and global interventions to diminish inequalities and subordination.

She is the author of numerous books and essays, and her recent work includes “Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses” (with Dennis E. Curtis), published in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society; “Law’s Migration: American Exceptionalism, Silent Dialogues and Federalism’s Multiple Ports of Entry,” published in Yale Law Journal; and “Law as Affiliation: ‘Foreign’ Law, Democratic Federalism and the Sovereigntism of the Nation-State,” published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Resnik is the founding director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellowship and Fund at Yale, which provides postgraduate fellowships annually to several Law School graduates to do public interest work, as well as summer fellowships for students at Barnard, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Spelman and Yale. The Liman Program also convenes reading groups and holds an annual colloquium at the Law School to focus on issues of social justice. Resnik is also a co-chair of The Yale Women Faculty Forum, a University-wide group aimed at fostering scholarship about gender and community for women at Yale.

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society, she is also an occasional litigator and has testified many times before congressional and judicial committees.

Resnik joins a distinguished group of scholars — including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Richard Posner and Louis Henkin — who’ve received the award since it was established in 1957. Previous recipients from the Yale Law School are Arthur Corbin (1966), James William Moore (1978), Geoffrey Hazard (1986), Boris Bittker (1987), Guido Calabresi (1998) and Stanton Wheeler (2004).

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