Susan Chesler
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Phone: 480-965-2554
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Susan Chesler teaches Legal Method and Writing, Legal Advocacy, and Contract Drafting and Negotiating. Professor Chesler’s scholarship focuses on transactional drafting and applied legal storytelling. She is the recipient of the 2020 Teresa G. Phelps Scholarship Award for Legal Communication. She also publishes articles and regularly presents at national and regional conferences on teaching transactional skills, professionalism, contract drafting, and other legal writing topics. Professor Chesler is an active member of the Legal Writing Institute, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and other professional organizations focusing on teaching skills and promoting the use of plain language in the practice of law. She is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and regularly presents Continuing Legal Education seminars to practicing lawyers on legal writing, contract drafting, and negotiations.
Prior to joining ASU in 2008, Professor Chesler taught legal methods, contract drafting, contracts, academic support, and bar preparation studies at Widener University School of Law. She also previously taught legal writing, contract drafting, and academic support at New York Law School. Before entering the teaching profession, she was a practicing attorney in New York City for more than 10 years, specializing in environmental law, insurance defense, and legal malpractice, and worked as in-house counsel at a non-profit child welfare agency focusing on employment law matters.
- J.D. Brooklyn Law School
- B.A. State University of New York, Albany
Chesler, Susan M. and Sneddon, Karen J., From Clause A to Clause Z: Narrative Transportation and the Transactional Reader, 71 S. C. L. Rev. 247 (2019).
Susan M. Chesler & Karen J. Sneddon, Telling Tales: The Transactional Lawyer as Storyteller, 15 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JAWLD 119 (2018).
Chesler, Susan M. and Sneddon, Karen J., Tales from a Form Book: Stock Stories and Transactional Documents, 78 Mont. L. Rev. 501 (2017).
Chesler, Susan M. and Sneddon, Karen J., Once Upon a Transaction: Narrative Techniques and Drafting, 68:2 Oklahoma Law Review 263 (Winter 2016).
Chesler, Susan M. and Stinson, Judith, Team up for Collaborative Teaching, 23 Perspectives Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 169-172 (2015)
A Day in the Life of a Lawyer: Contracts Module with Karen Sneddon and Pat Longan (Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2012); A Day in the Life of a Lawyer: Property Module with Karen Sneddon and Pat Longan (Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2013)
Measuring Student Progress: Assessing and Providing Feedback (with Karen Sneddon), 14 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, 2013 Special Report, at 489.
Publication Opportunities Beyond the Traditional Law Review (with Anna Hemingway and Tamara Herrera), 27 The Second Draft, Summer 2013, at 8.
Developing Students’ Ethical Professional Identities Through Role-Playing Exercises, 26 The Second Draft 8 (2012).
Susan Chesler, et. al., New Ways to Teach Drafting and Drafting Ethics: Teaching Drafting Ethics Using Video Vignettes, 12 Transactions: Tenn. J. of Bus. L 187 (2011).
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Training for Tomorrow: Negotiations for Future Transactional Lawyers, 2011 Bus. L. Today 1 (April 2011).
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Advocating for Teaching Students About the Role of Lawyer as Counselor - Winning Isn’t Always Everything, 16 The Law Teacher 6 (2009).
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Effective Contract Drafting: How to Revise, Edit, and Use Form Agreements, 19 Bus. L. Today 2 (2009).
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Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 716 | Contract Drafting |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 716 | Contract Drafting |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 716 | Contract Drafting |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 716 | Contract Drafting |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
LAW 519 | Legal Method and Writing |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 716 | Contract Drafting |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 524 | Legal Advocacy |