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Susan Schmeiser

Since 2002, Professor Schmeiser has taught law at American University's Washington College of Law and the University of Connecticut School of Law. Before that, she worked as a litigator in Washington D.C. at Shea & Gardner and as a law clerk for the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia. She began her teaching career while pursuing a Ph.D. in English, when she taught undergraduate courses in literature and theory at Brown University and in Women's Studies at Yale. She received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Brown in 2002, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999, and an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1989.

Recent Courses

• Family Law (Spring 2009)
• Health Law (Spring 2009)
• Health Law (Spring 2008)
• Sexuality, Gender and the Law (Spring 2008)
• Health Law (Spring 2007)
• Mental Health Law (Spring 2007)