
Anna Su
78 Queen's Park
Education
Overview
Anna Su's primary areas of research include the law and history of international human rights law, comparative constitutional law, technology and international law, and law and religion. She is currently a Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. She is also a Nootbaar Institute Fellow on Law and Religion at Pepperdine University School of Law.
Anna holds an SJD from Harvard Law School where her dissertation was awarded the John Laylin Prize for best paper in international law. She received her JD and AB degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Prior to coming to Toronto, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy based in SUNY Buffalo Law School, and a graduate fellowship in ethics with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She worked as a law clerk for the Philippine Supreme Court and was a consultant to the Philippine government negotiating panel with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
She holds a cross-appointment at the Department of History (by courtesy). Her SSRN page with all publications are here.
Areas of Interest
- Comparative Law
- Constitutional Law & Theory
- Human Rights Law
- International Law & Policy
- Law & Religion
- Legal History
Teaching
Full Year Session
Fall Session
Selected Publications
"Rise and Fall of Universal Civil Jurisdiction," 41 Human Rights Quarterly 849 (2019)
"Transformative State Neutrality," in Derek Ross & Sarah Mix-Ross eds., Canadian Pluralism and the Charter: Moral Diversity in a Free and Democratic Society (2019)
"Establishment," in Religion, Law, USA, edited by Joshua Dubler and Isaac Weiner (NYU Press, 2019)
"Varieties of Burden in Religious Accommodations," 34 Journal of Law and Religion 42 (2019)
Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2016)
"Catholic Constitutionalism from the Americanist Controversy to Dignitatis Humanae", 91 Notre Dame Law Review 101 (2016)
"Judging Religious Sincerity," 5 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 28 (2016)