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Susan S. Kuo

Associate Professor of Law

Susan Kuo is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Her research focuses on disaster law and policy and has been published or is forthcoming in law reviews including the Boston College Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the U.C. Davis Law Review. She teaches or has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, Law and Social Justice, and Race and the Law. In 2008 and 2010, Professor Kuo was voted Outstanding Faculty Member by the student body. Most recently, she was selected for inclusion in a study of "Best Law Teachers" along with 25 other law professors nationwide. The results of this study will appear in a book, What the Best Law Teachers Do, accepted for publication by the Harvard University Press.

Professor Kuo served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Alabama School of Law during Fall 2011 and at the University of Iowa College of Law during Spring 2011. Previously, Professor Kuo was an Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law. In 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2006 she was voted Professor of the Year by the Northern Illinois graduating class. Before entering academia, she was a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Georgia. She also completed two federal judicial clerkships, one with Judge Eugene E. Siler, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the other with Judge Robert H. Hall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

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Susan S. Kuo

Room 323
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-3597
kuo@law.sc.edu