Professor Judith Resnik

Email: judith.resnik@yale.edu

Research stream: Courts and the Rule of Law

Bio:

Judith Resnik is an Honorary Professor of Law at UCL Faculty of Laws as well as the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the founding director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. She teaches courses on federalism, procedure, courts, prisons, equality, and citizenship. Her scholarship focuses on the relationship of democratic values to government services such as courts, prisons, and post offices; the role of collective redress and class actions; contemporary conflicts over privatization; the relationships of states to citizens and non-citizens; the interaction among federal, state, and tribal courts and the forms and norms of federalism; practices of punishment; and equality and gender.  Resnik is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a  Managerial Trustee of the International Association of Women Judges.  She chaired Yale Law School’s Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights from 2012 to 2022.

Representative publications:

Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy, The University of Chicago Press 2025

Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City States and Democratic Courtrooms, (with Dennis E. Curtis), Yale University Press 2011, reissued as an ebook 2022, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18178,  hard copy via, https://octoberworks.com/representing-justice

Courts: A Template and A Site of Transitional Justice Collapsing as a Model, in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Hinton, and Lawrence Douglas, eds., Oxford University Press, online 2024, in print 2025)

Accommodations, Discounts, and Displacement: The Variability of Rights as a Norm of Federalism(s), 17 Jus Politicum 209 (2017)