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Susan N. Herman
Herman in 2011
President of the American Civil Liberties Union
In office
October 2008 – January 31, 2021
Preceded by Nadine Strossen
Succeeded by Deborah Archer
Personal details
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Children1
Education Barnard College ( BA)
New York University ( JD)
OccupationLaw professor

Susan N. Herman (born 1947) is an American legal scholar who served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union from October 2008 to January 2021. [1] [2] Herman has taught at Brooklyn Law School since 1980. [3] [4]

Early life and education

Herman was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. Herman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1968 and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law, where she was a note and comment editor for the New York University Law Review. [5] [6]

Herman served as pro se law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was a staff attorney and later associate director for Prisoners' Legal Services of New York. [5]

Career

Herman teaches constitutional law and criminal procedure, seminars on law and literature, and terrorism and civil liberties, [7] at Brooklyn Law School where she is the inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professor of Law. [8]

She began working for the ACLU as an intern in law school. [1] When she was elected president, Herman was the organization's general counsel and had served on its board for 20 years. [1] [3]

Herman's book Taking Liberties: the War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy was published by Oxford University Press in October 2011, [9] and won the 2012 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. [10]

Herman has appeared as a guest on NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, NBC News, and MSNBC. She has written opinion columns for The New York Times, Time, Newsday, and HuffPost. [11] [12] [13] [14]

In 2019, Herman was named to Crain's New York Business biennial list of the "Most Powerful Women in New York". [15]

Personal life

Herman is married to Paul Gangsei, a law partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. They have one daughter. [16]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Law professor elected new ACLU president: Susan Herman plans to reach out to African-Americans, religious groups". Associated Press. 2008-10-18. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  2. ^ "NYU law prof Deborah Archer is ACLU's new board president; fight for racial justice expected to be a priority".
  3. ^ a b Brosh, Brendan (2008-10-18). "New ACLU president from Brooklyn Law School". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  4. ^ "Professor Susan Herman". AJC.[ permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b "Susan N. Herman". American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  6. ^ "Herman, Susan". oralhistory.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  7. ^ "Susan N. Herman". Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  8. ^ Brooklyn Law School
  9. ^ Herman, Susan (October 3, 2011). Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy. Oxford University Press. ISBN  978-0-19-978254-3.
  10. ^ Chicago-Kent College of Law; 2012.
  11. ^ "Susan N. Herman". American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  12. ^ "ACLU President: We Didn't Always Have Free Speech". Time. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  13. ^ "Roberts' pitch more like a curveball". Newsday. September 15, 2005. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  14. ^ "Susan N. Herman". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  15. ^ Crain's New York 2019
  16. ^ NYU Law; 2009

External links

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