Susan L. Tanner Associate Professor of Law

Dr. Susan Tanner is a nationally recognized expert on artificial intelligence in legal education and a leading voice on the intersection of technology, rhetoric, and law. Professor Tanner brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to legal education, holding both a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law  and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, "The Rhetorical Force of the Law," used corpus and computational linguistics methods to examine the language, genre, and structure of legal opinions, establishing her expertise at the intersection of legal communication and technology.

Before entering academia, Professor Tanner practiced law at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Her diverse professional background also includes legislation and policy work at StudentsFirst and executive roles in marketing and technology startups.