Assistant Professor of Law, Jeannie Suk, recently sat down with me to discuss her principal areas of research in interrelated topics of family law, criminal law, and criminal procedure.
In her Yale Law Journal article, Criminal Law Comes Home, Suk outlined the changing model for defining domestic violence through the lens of criminal law. As she wrote, “The growing criminal law use of protection orders to prohibit the cohabitation and contact of intimate partners is a form of state-imposed de facto divorce that subjects the practical and substantive continuation of intimate relationships to criminal sanction.”
