Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Julie Suk (Fordham)
"The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court"
Hon. Deborah A. Batts Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law at Fordham School of Law
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The Murphy Institute's Center for Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring Tulane and guest faculty from the fields of law, economics, and political science. Presenters share their latest research on a range of topics, including regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and political economy. Papers are distributed beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.
The workshops, organized by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. The Spring 2026 workshop series, co-convened by Associate Professor of Law and Murphy Affiliate Faculty Mateusz Grochowski, will focus on themes in consumer law, broadly construed.
Julie Chi-hye Suk’s scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform, feminist constitutional movements, and the law, policy, and institutions that shape equality and democracy in the United States and globally. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles in law reviews and edited volumes, Suk is the author of three books, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2020); After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023); and The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court (forthcoming, Fall 2026).
In 2023-24, she was a Visiting Scholar a Russell Sage Foundation, where she worked on her next book project on the past and future of amending the U.S. Constitution. At Fordham, she has co-hosted two podcasts, Constitutional Crisis Hotline (2022-23) and Democracy’s Future (2023-24). She is also a frequent commentator in the media on these areas of research, with publications in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other outlets. She serves on the board of Democracy Restated and on the academic advisory board of the American Constitution Society.
