Susan Poser

Susan Poser was born to Norman Stanley Poser (born May 28, 1928 in Hampstead, London, England[5]) and Miriam Poser (née Kugelman; born October 17, 1930 in Moers, Germany[6]) on September 7, 1963 in New York, New York. Her father Norman had immigrated to the United States from Genoa, Italy on the SS Conte di Savoia, on November 14, 1939 along with his brother Joseph and sister Elizabeth when he was just eleven years old.[7] Norman would go on to be an attorney for the Security and Exchange Commission, the senior vice president of the American Stock Exchange from 1972 to 1975 and executive vice president from 1975 to 1980.[8][9][10] He is also a Professor Emeritus of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Her mother Miriam had immigrated to the United States from Germany on the SS Washington with her father Siegfried, her mother Maria (née Selver) and her sister Bertha on May 20, 1936 during the occupation of the Third Reich to escape persecution for being Jewish.[11][12]

Poser graduated from Swarthmore College in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Ancient Greek and Political Science. Between her time at Swarthmore and the University of California Berkeley, Poser held teaching positions at both Anatolia College and Armstrong Preparatory School as an English teacher from 1985 to 1986 and 1986–1987, respectively.[13] After receiving her J.D. from Berkeley in 1991, Poser clerked for Dolores Sloviter, who was the Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[14] Poser served as a Zicklin Fellow in Ethics of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.[15]

Poser is a member of numerous organizations including the American Law Institute and The Chicago Network, along with local chapters of the International Women's Forum and the American Civil Liberties Union. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Noble Schools, a charter school system in Chicago and the surrounding area. She is licensed to practice law by both the Nebraska State Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

Poser is Jewish on both her mother and father's side.[30]

Poser is married to Professor and Researcher Stephen DiMagno, and they were married at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.[31]

In the Congressional Record of the Senate on April 27, 2000, Poser signed a letter along with over 300 law professors opposing the Victims' Rights Amendment.[32]

• Poser, Susan and Varon, Elizabeth R., "United States v. Steinmetz: The Legal Legacy of the Civil War, Revisited" (1995). College of Law, Faculty Publications. 42. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/lawfacpub/42
• Poser, Susan, "The Ethics of Implementation: Institutional Remedies and the Lawyer's Role" (1996). College of Law, Faculty Publications. 43. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/lawfacpub/43utm_source=digitalcommons.unl.edu%2Flawfacpub%2F43&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages
• Susan Poser, Termination of Desegregation Decrees and the Elusive Meaning of Unitary Status, 81 Neb. L. Rev. (2002) Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol81/iss1/5
• Poser, S. Multijurisdictional Practice for a Multijurisdictional Profession, 81 Neb. L. Rev. (2002) Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol81/iss4/7
• Poser, Susan; Bornstein, Brian H.; and McGorty, Erinn Kiernan, "Measuring Damages for Lost Enjoyment of Life: The View from the Bench and the Jury Box" (2003). Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology. 147. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/147
• Susan Poser, Main Street Multidisciplinary Practice Firms: Laboratories for the Future, 37 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 95 (2003). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol37/iss1/3
• Poser, S. (2004). What's a Judge to Do? Remedying the Remedy in Institutional Reform Litigation. Michigan Law Review, 102(6), 1307–1327. doi:10.2307/4141947
• Poser, Susan, Unlabeled Drug Samples and the Learned Intermediary: The Case for Liability Without Preemption (December 1, 2007). Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 62, p. 653, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=978802
• Bornstein, Brian H. and Poser, Susan (2007) "Perceptions of Procedural and Distributive Justice in the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund," Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy: Vol. 17: Iss. 1, Article 2. Available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cjlpp/vol17/iss1/2
• Poser S. (2008) Damages as Metaphor: A Commentary. In: Bornstein B.H., Wiener R.L., Schopp R.F., Willborn S.L. (eds) Civil Juries and Civil Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74490-2_7
• Riedesel, Charles & Manley, Eric & Poser, Susan & Deogun, Jitender. (2009). A model academic ethics and integrity policy for computer science departments. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 41. 357–361. https://doi.org/10.1145/1539024.1508994.
• Case Commentary: Conflict of Interest in Hiring. Michael Pritchard, et al., The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration (Springer 2010).
• Poser, S., & Rische, J. (2015). Satellite telecommunications and American tort law. Dispute Settlement in the Area of Space Communication, 161–174. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845258584-161