Dr. Susan Tanner

Dr. Susan Tanner brings a distinctive blend of academic excellence, technological innovation, and practical legal experience to the Brandeis School of Law. Her work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, linguistics and law has established her as an international authority on generative AI in legal practice. She studied law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and rhetoric and composition at Arizona State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University, where she collaborated with leading scholars in rhetoric and digital humanities, machine learning, cognitive brain science and law and linguistics. Her doctoral dissertation combined computational and corpus linguistics, and argument theory to analyze legal opinions as a genre.