Susan W. Brenner

Susan W. Brenner is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Dayton School of Law, where she has been a faculty member since 1988. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Criminal Law and a Seminar in Cybercrimes.

Professor Brenner has spoken on cybercrimes at numerous conferences, including Interpol's Fourth Annual Conference on Cybercrimes in Lyon, France, the National District Attorneys Association's 2001 National Conference and the Hoover Institution's Conference on International Cooperation to Combat Cyber Crime and Terrorism, held at Stanford University. She participated in the Økokrim Conference, "The Internet as the Scene of Crime," held in Oslo, Norway in May of 2000, and in the summer of 2001 spoke at a seminar on cybercrime legislation sponsored by the Ministry of the Interior of the United Arab Emirates. She is a member of the American Bar Association -- Privacy and Computer Crime Committee's International Cybercrime Project, serves on the National District Attorneys Association's Cybercrimes Committee and is Co-Chair of the National Institute of Justice - Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative's Working Group on Policy. She consults on cybercrime issues and often gives press interviews on the subject; her web site, http://www.cybercrimes.net, was featured on "NBC Nightly News." Professor Brenner has published articles dealing with cybercrime and cyberterrorism, including Is There Such a Thing as Virtual Crime, 4 California Criminal Law Review 1 (June 2001), http://www.boalt.org/CCLR/v4/. She wrote a chapter for Cybercrime: The Investigation, Prosecution and Defense of a Computer-Related Crime and is writing a book on global cybercrime law with Stein Schjolberg, a noted European authority on the subject.

Aside from her work with cybercrimes, Professor Brenner has published numerous law review articles and book chapters dealing with issues in criminal law and procedure. She has published two books--Federal Grand Jury Practice (West 1996) and Precedent Inflation (Rutgers 1990). Her grand jury web site, http://www.udayton.edu/~grandjur, provides information on state and federal grand juries. The site was featured in the New York Times CyberLaw column and in the ABA Journal. Professor Brenner has given numerous press interviews on grand jury issues; she also speaks and consults on these issues.

Professor Brenner has testified on pending legislation at hearings held by the Ohio legislature and the Congressional Black Caucus. She is currently consulting with the Ohio legislature on draft cybercrime legislation.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Dayton, Professor Brenner practiced with two firms--Shellow, Shellow & Glynn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Silets & Martin in Chicago, Illinois. She also clerked for a federal district court judge and a state court of appeals judge. She graduated from the Indiana University (Bloomington) School of Law, and spent two years teaching there before accepting her first clerking position.

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