Susan Klein

Susan Riva Klein, the Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas, is a nationally prominent scholar in the fields of criminal procedure, federal criminal law, and prosecutorial ethics. Her many articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, the Stanford Law Review, and many other top ten journals, and have been cited recently by the United States Supreme Court. She is active in educating state and federal judges, is a member of the committee that drafts the "Fifth Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction, Criminal (West 2001, and forthcoming West 2010)." and currently serves on the State Bar of Texas standing committee on Pattern Jury Charges - Criminal. The first volume of Texas Criminal Pattern Jury Charges/Intoxication and Controlled Substances, was published by the State Bar of Texas in 2009. She is currently co-author of Abrams, Beale, and Klein, Federal Criminal Law and Its Enforcement (West 2009), multi-volume set, and was co-author of the six criminal procedure volumes of King, Klein and Wright's Federal Practice and Procedure, Criminal 3d (West 2004). She serves on the members consultative group of the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code, Sentencing, and for the last five years, has consulted on numerous high-profile criminal cases. Upon graduation from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1989, she clerked for Judge Cynthia H. Hall on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and spent four years as a federal criminal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice through the Attorney General's Honor Program.