Susan Brenner is the NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the School of Law. A renowned cybercrime scholar, Professor Brenner speaks internationally and writes extensively on cybercrime. Her website, www.cybercrimes.net, was featured on NBC Nightly News. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s International Cybercrime Project and has served on the National District Attorneys Association’s Committee on Cybercrimes. She is also a member of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Forensic Science Technology Center Digital Evidence Project.

Cybercrimes, according to Professor Brenner, are using a computer to commit fraud, like theft or stalking, or to commit other illegal activity, like create viruses. Interested in computer technology and the Internet, as well as criminal law, she finds the study of cybercrimes exciting. “There are always new crimes emerging,” she says. Her website offers text-based resources and model legislation for cybercrime law that the students in her cybercrimes class helped develop.

Before joining the School of Law faculty in 1988, Professor Brenner taught at the Indiana University School of Law. She was an associate at Silets and Martin, Ltd., in Chicago, where she defended federal white-collar prosecutions and tax offenses, and at Shellow, Shellow & Glynn in Milawaukee, where she specialized in criminal defense. Professor Brenner has also clerked for two federal district court judges.

Courses
LAW 6107 Criminal Law
LAW 6112 Criminal Procedure
LAW 6924 Capstone: Cybercrime 
LAW 6215 Advanced Criminal Law

Useful Web Links
Cybercrimes
Federal Grand Jury Home Page
UDSL Program in Law & Technology

Selected Publications

• Distributed Security: Preventing Cybercrime, John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law (with Leo Clarke, 2006)
• Law in an Era of Pervasive Technology, Widener Law Journal (2006)
• Cybercrime Jurisdiction in Crime, Law and Social Change, published in Crime, Law and Social Change (2006)
• State-sponsored Crime: The Futility of the Economic Espionage Act, Houston Journal of International Law (with A. Crescenzi, 2006)
• Fourth Amendment Protection for Shared Privacy Rights in Stored Transactional Data, Journal of Law and Policy (with Leo L. Clarke, 2006)
• Digital Evidence: Computer Simulations and Animations, Computer & Telecommunications Law Review (2005)
• Requiring Protocols in Computer Search Warrants, Digital Investigation (2005)
• Distributed Society: Moving Away From Reactive Law Enforcement, published in both the International Journal of Communications Property and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology (2004)
• Cybercrime Metrics: Old Wine, New Bottles? 9 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology 13 (2004)
• Approaches to Cybercrime Jurisdiction, 4 Journal of High Technology Law 1 (with Bert-Jaap Koops, 2004)
• Cybercrime Law: Defining Offenses, 6 Information Systems Frontiers (2004)
• Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: A New Model of Law Enforcement? 30 Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal (2004)
• Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: Distributed Security, 10 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law (2004)
• Efforts to Develop Transnational Legal Standards Governing Cybercrime: The Council of Europe and the G8, 1 GCC Legal Journal 8, State of Qatar (2003)
• Grand Juries: The Sword and the Shield, Case in Point: California Continuing Education for the Bar (2003)
• A Survey and Assessment of National and Transnational Efforts to Harmonize Cybercrime Law, Interpol Computer Crime Manual (2003)
• The Challenges of Cybercrime, United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute Journal 14 (with Marc Goodman, 2002)
• Cybercrime Statutes and Case Law, Chapter 15 in Data Privacy and Electronic Security (West Publishing 2002)