Susanna Peters

Susanna Peters is an Associate Teaching Professor and Social Sciences Program Advisor at Michigan Technological University's College of Business. She holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania (1990) and an MS in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Davis. Her research focuses on constitutional law, intellectual property, cyberlaw, and prisons. She has taught courses including Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, and American Government, and advises MTU's Mock Trial Team.

• Education: JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School (1990); MS, Agricultural Economics, UC Davis

Her work integrates resource economics from her Alaskan fishing village research with legal scholarship. Teaching emphasizes law and society, legal careers, and first amendment topics. She previously clerked for federal judges Morris Arnold and Komives, practiced labor law in Los Angeles, and taught at Wayne State University Law School.