Susan Poser
Associate to the Chancellor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln • 201 ADMS • Lincoln NE, 68588-0419 • 402.472.2116 • sposer1@unl.edu
Susan Poser became Chief of Staff and Associate to the Chancellor at UNL in 2007.
She is also a Professor of Law at the UNL College of Law. Her research and teaching focus on Torts and Professional Responsibility. Poser received her bachelor's degree in ancient Greek and political science from Swarthmore College, her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at UC Berkeley.
Poser was a law clerk to Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She practiced law in Philadelphia and was the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics in the Legal Studies Department of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. In Spring 2004, she was a visiting professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley.
In 2005, Poser became director of the UNL Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics. The Center's mission is to serve as a resource for faculty who want to integrate ethics into their teaching and research. She has been on the Women's and Gender Studies Faculty, the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women, and served as chair of the University of Nebraska System-wide Gender Equity Committee. Poser is a member of the Pennsylvania and Nebraska bars and serves on the Ethics Committee of the Nebraska State Bar Association.
