Susan Nevelow Mart
- Professor Emeritus
Susan Nevelow Mart joined the Colorado Law faculty in July 2011 as an associate professor and director of the William A. Wise Law Library. She was promoted to full professor in 2018.
Her scholarly and teaching interests center on legal informatics. She has written and presented nationally and locally on the effects of algorithms on legal research, legal information policy, national security and libraries, access to information, computer information retrieval systems, and legal research pedagogy. Her articles have been awarded the Article of the Year Award by Law Library Journal, law librarianship's premier journal, in 2004, 2007, and 2018. She teaches Writing and Research in the Regulatory Context, Advanced Legal Research and Analysis and Environmental Legal Research.
Professor Mart has been active in library associations and library education. She is on the Board of Directors of LawArXiv, the Society of American Law Library Directors, and the Legal Information Preservation Alliance. She is the Chair of the Government Relations Committee of the Colorado Association of Law Libraries and she is active in advocating on information policy issues on behalf of libraries and the public.
Before joining Colorado Law, Professor Mart served as the Faculty Services Librarian and adjunct professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Prior to her work at Hastings, Professor Mart practiced law for seventeen years. Her law practice in Northern California focused on construction litigation, complex real estate transactions, partnership and corporate dissolution, and fiduciary abuse of elders. She has been a certified specialist in airport construction law; a speaker on risk allocation and contract negotiation in business contracts; a speaker on mechanic's liens and stop notices; and a Continuing Legal Education teacher on patients' rights advocacy.
Professor Mart holds an M.L. I.S. from San Jose State University, a J.D. from Berkeley Law School at the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.