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Susanna Peters Lecturer J.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990 MS, University of California at Davis Department of Social Sciences Office Location: 218 Academic Offices Office Phone: 906.487.2391 Email: speters@mtu.edu Pre-Law Advising at Michigan Tech Mock Trial Peters’ Courses

Susanna Peters, M.S. , J.D., taught at Wayne State University Law School before coming to Michigan Tech. Her research and teaching interests include constitutional law, intellectual property, cyberlaw, and prisons. She attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and had the opportunity of clerking for United States District/Circuit Court Judge Morris Arnold and U.S. Magistrate Judge Komives. In private practice she has worked as a litigation associate at a Los Angeles law firm that specialized in labor law. Ms. Peters also has a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Davis, where her emphasis on resource economics stemmed from summers spent in the Alaskan fishing village of Yakutat. Since being at Tech she has taught Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, Law and Society, Orientation to Legal Careers, American Government, and Perspectives sections entitled "Crime and Incarceration" and "The Work of the First Amendment: Selected Topics in First Amendment Law." She has also been the faculty advisor to MTU's newly established Mock Trial Team.

Spring 2009

SS 2610 Introduction to Law and Society

SS 1002 Orientation to Legal Careers

Fall 2008

SS 3990 Rights, Liberties and Justice: Selected Topics in Constitutional Law

SS 3650 Fundamentals of Intellectual Propety Law

UN 1001: First Amendment: Discourse and Democracy

Spring 2008 Courses

SS 3660 American Constitutional Law

SS 1002 Orientation to Legal Careers

Fall 2007 Courses

SS 3640:  Cyberlaw

US 1001:  The Work of the First Amendment