Susan N. Herman is an American constitutional law scholar and, since October 2008, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union.[1] Herman has taught at Brooklyn Law School since 1980[2]. She currently teaches courses in Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure, and seminars on Law and Literature, and Terrorism and Civil Liberties[3]. She began working for the ACLU as an intern in law school.[1] When she was elected president, Herman was the organization's general counsel and had served on its board for 20 years.[1][2]
Susan Herman’s new book, Taking Liberties: the War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2011.[4]
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