Susan H. Stephan
email: shs@etechlaw.com
phone: 952-234-2112
Overview
Susan consults with businesses and educators on the intersection of technology with areas such as ADA compliance, privacy practices, workplace policies, information security, and employee handbooks. Practice areas include e-commerce and the Internet, privacy and data security, employment litigation and counseling, partnership and employment agreements, vendor contracts, workers’ compensation, intellectual property, and general corporate legal matters on behalf of individual and business clients.
Susan is an active member of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Tech Law Section (Section Council Member 2020-present; Treasurer 2021-2022; Vice Chair 2022-2023; Chair 2023-present) as well as a past Chair of the Sports, Art and Entertainment Law Section. She also is active in the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section; Cyberspace Law Committee (Membership Chair, 2008-2011); Consumer Privacy & Data Analytics Subcommittee; Digital Media Subcommittee (Co-Chair, 2011-2012); and Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology Subcommittee.
In addition, Susan serves as the Director of the Master of Legal Studies Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She has taught as adjunct law faculty since 2001 in areas including information security, antitrust law, federal privacy law, cyber law, blockchain technology regulation, workplace technology, intellectual property, administrative law, civil pretrial practice, deposition skills, alternative dispute resolution, law and economics, workers’ compensation, and labor and employment law.
Education
- University of Edinburgh Law School (LL.M. in Information Technology Law, With Distinction) 2021.
- University of Minnesota (Certificate in Online Distance Learning) 2017.
- New York University (M.A.) 2011
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law (J.D.) 1992
- Northwestern University (B.S.) 1987
Bar Admissions
- State of Minnesota, 1992 (active)
- State of Illinois, 1993; U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 1997 (inactive)
Publications
- “Whither Free Will: The Biopolitical Imperative of Regulating Online Behavioral Advertising,” The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Volume 17, Issue 2 (2022).
- “The Evolution of Influence: Regulating AI-Based Market Power in Online Behavioral Advertising,” 49 N. KY. L. Rev.235 (2022).
- Book Chapter, Behavioral Advertising and Disclosures, THE LAW OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SMART MACHINES, (Ted Claypoole, ed., American Bar Association 2019).
- “Trust-Related Privacy Factors in E-Learning Environments,” Distance Education, Volume 14, Issue 4 (2018).
- “Embracing Engagement through Technology in Online Graduate Education,” Distance Education, Volume 14, Issue 3 (2018).
- “Datamining for Gold: Social Media and Social Capital in a Postnational Global Market,” 39 N. KY. L. Rev. 2 (2012).
- “From Allegory to Commodity: Graphic Lady Justice and Twenty-First Century Law,” The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2010).
- “Blowing the Whistle on Justice as Sport: 100 Years of Playing a Non-Zero Sum Game,”30 Hamline L. Rev. 587 (2007).
Online Articles and Blog Posts
- “Current Realities of Remote Justice”
- “Blockchain, “Smart” Contracts, and Business in Cyberspace”
- “Technology Overview: What is a ‘Blockchain?’”
- “US-UK Agreement Under the CLOUD Act to Take Effect this Summer”
- “The EU’s Goals for Artificial Intelligence Legislation”
- “CJEU to Address EU-US Data Protection in Schrems II”
- “Privacy and Trust in Online Education Communities: Beyond FERPA”
- “Facebook and Faceprints: Can Biometrics and Privacy Coexist?”
- “The Now-Brittle Sword and Shield of Anonymity Online”
- “A Social Network Datamine and the Global Market”
- “Tracking Mobile and Online Trends through Cookies, Bugs, WiFi Positioning…and More”
- “Internet Access as a Human Right and the Economic Importance of ICTs”
- “Apple iOS 4, the Evolution of Technology and Global Online Privacy Concerns”
- “A Cyberspace Review: Digital Privacy and Data Security for Businesses Today”
- “Gramm-Leach-Bliley 2012: Privacy and Data Security in the Financial Services Industry”
- “HIPAA and HITECH: Privacy and Data Security in Health Care”
- “FACTA and the Red Flags Rule: Privacy and Protection against Identity Theft”
- “Privacy and Safeguards for Children Online: Complying with COPPA”
- “PCI Data Security Standards: An Industry’s Self-Regulatory Approach”
- “The Evolution of Technology and Global Online Privacy Concerns”