Susan Hankin has been on the faculty at the University of Maryland since 1996.  She is Director of the Legal Writing Program and teaches Tort Law, Public Health Law, and Animals and the Law, along with Analysis & Writing courses.  Professor Hankin directs the Legal Writing Center, and she runs the Teaching Fellow program, where she trains students to work as Legal Analysis and Writing teaching assistants and to staff the Writing Center.  She is also Faculty Advisor to the Moot Court Board.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Professor Hankin was on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center, where she taught Legal Practice, Legal Research and Writing, and an advanced Legal Writing Seminar. Before entering teaching, Professor Hankin worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Collins J. Seitz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and as a staff attorney for the Whitman Walker Clinic AIDS Program in Washington, DC.

Professor Hankin’s research interests include Animal Law, Health Law, and Legal Writing Pedagogy.  Her recent publications include Making Decisions about our Animals’ Health Care: Does It Matter Whether We Are Owners or Guardians?, published in theStanford Journal of Animal Law & Policy and Not a Living Room Sofa: Changing the Legal Status of Companion Animals, published in the Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Professor Hankin has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.  She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, and the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.