Rate My Professor Judith Resnik

Resnik teaches courses on federalism, procedure, courts, prisons, equality, and citizenship. Her research explores democratic values in relation to government services such as courts, prisons, and post offices; collective redress and class actions; privatization; relationships between states, citizens, and non-citizens; federal, state, and tribal courts; punishment practices; and equality and gender. Key publications include “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy” (University of Chicago Press, 2025); “Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms” (with Dennis Curtis, Yale University Press, 2011); “Federal Courts Stories” (co-edited with Vicki C. Jackson, Foundation Press, 2010); and “Managerial Judges” (Harvard Law Review, 1982). She has received the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2018), Honorary Doctorate of Laws from University College London (2018), Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award (2014), PROSE Awards for Excellence in Social Sciences and Law & Legal Studies (2012), AALS Federal Courts Section Meltzer Award (2024 with Vicki Jackson), and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001). Resnik has chaired sections of the Association of American Law Schools on Procedure, Federal Courts, Women in Legal Education, and Law and the Humanities; co-chaired Yale’s Women Faculty Forum; argued U.S. Supreme Court cases such as Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter (2009); and testified before Congress and judicial committees. Through the Liman Center, she has supported over 210 public interest fellowships as of 2025.