Susan E. Hauser – Assistant Professor
B.A., Wake Forest University; J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Susan Elizabeth Hauser was born in Bryson City, North Carolina. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Wake Forest University in 1980 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. She has been licensed to practice law in North Carolina since August of 1984.

  Professor Hauser began her legal career working with low-income and elderly clients as a staff attorney with Lumbee River Legal Services in Pembroke, North Carolina. In 1989, she joined the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina as a staff attorney. Three years later, in 1992, she joined the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, where she worked as senior law clerk and staff attorney for thirteen years. During her tenure with the federal courts, Professor Hauser clerked for the Honorable J. Rich Leonard, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and for the Honorable W. Earl Britt, Chief District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

  Professor Hauser has written and lectured in the field of bankruptcy and bankruptcy procedure, and has also developed and presented training programs on civil and bankruptcy procedure to court personnel. In 1998, she traveled with a team of court employees to Lusaka, Zambia to train Zambian court employees in the use of computerized case tracking systems customized to Zambian court procedure.

  Professor Hauser is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) and its Business and Bankruptcy Sections, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Commercial Law League of America. She was elected to serve as a member of the NCBA’s Bankruptcy Section Council from 2002 to 2005, and has also served as a trainer with the Bar Association’s Lawyers in Schools Program. In 2005, she was awarded an American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellowship. She has taught at the school of law since the Fall of 2005.

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Contact Information:
shauser@nccu.edu

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