Susan Brooks is a member of the faculty and also serves as the Associate Dean of Experiential Learning. Prior to coming to the Earle Mack School of Law, Professor Brooks was a Clinical Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University School of Law. She attended law school at New York University School of Law and served on the editorial board of the New York University Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge Bernard Friedman on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She subsequently worked as an associate in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
Articles
Relationship-Centered Lawyering: Social Science Theory for Transforming Legal Practice (with Robert Madden III), University of Puerto Rico Law Review (2009)
This article explores a new approach to legal practice grounded in human development and social...
Conversations on "Community Lawyering": The Newest (Oldest) Wave in Clinical Legal Education (with Karen Tokarz, Nancy L. Cook, and Brenda Bratton Blom), Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (2008)
Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Build Effective Relationships with Students, Clients and Communities, Clinical Law Review (2006)
The Notion of Interdependence and its Implications for Child and Family Policy (with Ya'ir Ronen), Journal of Feminist Family Therapy (2006)
The authors claim that the recognition of interdependence as a guiding principle of child and...