| Title: |
Professor Charles R. Emrick Jr - Calfee, Halter & Griswold Endowed Professor of Law |
| Dept: | Law |
| Office: | LB 166 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2323 |
| Email: | susan.becker@law.csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. LB 166, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
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B.A., Eastern Kentucky University
J.D., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Professor Becker received her undergraduate degree in journalism with highest distinction from Eastern Kentucky University in 1977, and worked as reporter and photographer for four years before starting law school. She graduated magna cum laude from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1983 and clerked for the Honorable Judge Robert Krupansky of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1983-1985. She then joined the general litigation group of Jones, Day where her practice areas included products liability, employment law, and commercial litigation at administrative agency, trial and appellate levels. During her five years at Jones, Day Professor Becker litigated cases in state and federal courts in Ohio, Texas, California, New York, Montreal, and other jurisdictions in North America.
Professor Becker joined the full-time faculty of Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1990, obtained tenure in 1994, served as associate dean from 1996-1999, and was promoted to full professor in 2004. She was appointed to a three year position as the Charles R. Emrick Jr.-Calfee Halter and Griswold Professor of Law in the fall of 2007. Teaching areas include Civil Procedure, Remedies, Contracts, Pretrial Practice, Legal Ethics, and Sexual Orientation and the Law. Her published scholarship focuses on civil litigation practice, civil justice reform, and sexual minorities and the law. The ABA published her first book, Discovery of Current and Former Employees in 2005, and Lexis/Nexis published her newest work, the Law of Professional Conduct Ohio, in November, 2007 (co-authored with Jack Guttenberg and Lloyd Snyder). Professor Becker has served on the Supreme Court of Ohios Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure for the past five years and has chaired the Commissions Civil Rules Subcommittee since January 2006. She has been a member of the Rule Advisory Committee and the Advisory Group for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio since 1995 and was Co-Chair of the Advisory Groups Committee on Professionalism from 1999 to 2005. She has served as a member of the Ohio American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Board of Directors since July, 2004, and was elected to Boards Executive Committee in November 2007. Professor Becker was also Vice President of Ohio Human Rights Bar Association (OHRBA) from 1998-2000. She also maintains a modest pro bono legal practice. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| civil procedure
rules of court litigation courts civil justice reform tort reform sexual orientation and the law civil liberties remedies products liability | ||