Susannah Barton Tobin

2012-2013 Academic Year

Lecturer on Law

Appointments

• Director, First Year Legal Research and Writing

Biographical Statement

Susannah Barton Tobin is the Director of the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program. She received her B.A. in classics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 2000, where she was the recipient of the Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Prize. She received an M.Phil. in classics from the University of Cambridge in 2001, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2004. While in law school, she was a senior editor of the Harvard Civil-rights Civil Liberties Law Review and summered at the ACLU of Massachusetts and Ropes & Gray. She then clerked on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts for Judge Mark L. Wolf and on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for Judge Levin H. Campbell. She advised hundreds of Harvard undergraduates as a resident tutor for ten years in Leverett House, for which work the College recognized her with the Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling. She was a recipient of the 2010 Dean's Excellence Award at Harvard Law School. She serves as a trustee of The Harvard Crimson and The Winsor School and as a member of the Cambridge Historical Commission.

Representative Publications

• Tobin, Susannah Barton. "Divining Hazelwood: The Need for a Viewpoint Neutrality Requirement in School Speech Cases," 39 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberites Law Review 217 (2004).
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Other Information

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