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Susan
L. Brooks
Associate Dean of Experiential Learning
AProfessor of Law Associate Professor of Law
Email: Susan.Brooks@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4784
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 409
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Education
J.D. New York University School of Law
M.A. University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
B.A. with honors, University of Chicago
Susan Brooks is an expert on experiential learning, family law,
children’s rights and therapeutic jurisprudence.
Professor Brooks came to Drexel from Vanderbilt University Law
School, where she was a clinical professor of law and supervised
the Child and Family Law Policy Clinic.
She was a case worker for Jewish Family and Community Service
in Chicago before earning her J.D. at New York University School
of Law, where she was note and comment editor for the New
York University Law Review and received the Judge Aileen Haas Schwartz
Award for outstanding work in the field of children and the law.
After clerking for the Hon. Bernard A. Friedman of U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, she became a litigation
associate with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago.
Professor Brooks’ scholarly publications include “Representing
Children in Families,” in the Nevada Law Journal, and “Clinical
Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics,” a textbook
that she co-edited. Her publications also include chapters in “The
Affective Assistance of Counsel” and in “Creative
Child Advocacy: Global Perspectives.”
A co-founder of the Tennessee Relative Caregiver Coalition and
the Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators, she served
as lead investigator for Tennessee’s Court Improvement
Program and as a principal investigator on an Immigrant Community
Assessment sponsored by Metropolitan Nashville. She is a member
of the Global Alliance for Justice Education.
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