Susan H. Stephan
Education:
- J.D., Mitchell Hamline School of Law, 1992
- M.A., New York University
- Online Distance Learning Postbaccalaureate Certificate, University of Minnesota
- B.S., Northwestern University
Susan Hayes Stephan serves as Associate Dean of Graduate and Online Programs and Adjunct Professor at NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law.
As Associate Dean of Graduate and Online Programs, Stephan is responsible for substantial aspects of the law school’s online and non-JD graduate educational programs, including accreditation and university compliance; program expansion; and supervision of marketing, admissions, student services, career development, and the teaching and learning process.
Prior to returning to legal education, Stephan practiced law beginning in 1992 with a focus on workers’ compensation, employment litigation and counseling, partnership and employment agreements, vendor contracts, e-commerce, privacy and data security, and general corporate matters on behalf of individual and business clients. She is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Business Law section and Cyberspace Law Committee as well as the AALS Section of Technology, Law, and Legal Education; she also is a council member of the Technology Section and past Chair of the Art and Entertainment Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association.
Stephan has taught as adjunct law faculty since 2001 in areas including antitrust, intellectual property, law and economics, federal privacy, technology and privacy in the workplace, cyberlaw and mass communications, labor and employment, workers’ compensation, and law and popular culture. She graduated from Mitchell Hamline School of Law in 1992, and she received a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University, a Master of Arts from New York University, and a Certificate in Online Distance Education from the University of Minnesota.