Susan W. Brenner

Susan W. Brenner is NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law in Dayton, Ohio.

Professor Brenner has spoken at numerous events, including two Interpol Conferences on Cybercrimes, the Middle East IT Security Conference, the American Bar Association's National Cybercrime Conference and the Yale Law School Conference on Cybercrime She spoke on cyberthreats and the nation-state at the Department of Homeland Security's Global Cyber Security Conference and participated in a panel discussion of national security threats in cyberspace sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. She has also spoken at a NATO Workshop on Cyberterrorism in Bulgaria and on terrorists' use of the Internet at the American Society of International Law conference. She was a member of the European Union's CTOSE project on digital evidence and served on two Department of Justice digital evidence initiatives. Professor Brenner chaired a Working Group in an American Bar Association project that developed the ITU Toolkit for Cybercrime Legislation for the United Nation's International Telecommunications Union. She is a Senior Principal for Global CyberRisk, LLC.

Professor Brenner is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She has published a number of law review articles dealing with cybercrime, including Fantasy Crime, 11 Vanderbilt Journal of Technology and Entertainment Law 1 (2008), State-Sponsored Crime: The Futility of the Economic Espionage Act, 26 Houston Journal of International Law 1 (2006), Cybercrime Metrics, University of Virginia Journal of Law & Technology (2004) and Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: Distributed Security, Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law (2004). In 2007, Oxford University Press published her book: Law in an Era of "Smart" Technology and in 2009 Oxford published her most recent book: Cyber Threats: Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation-States.