Hillary B. Farber
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
University of Michigan, AB 1988
Northeastern University, JD 1992

Professor Farber holds a joint appointment in the College of Criminal Justice and the School of Law. She has held teaching appointments at Western New England College School of Law, New England School of Law, Harvard Law School and Suffolk Law School. She teaches in the areas of criminal law and procedure, evidence, trial advocacy and juvenile law. Prior to teaching, Professor Farber was a criminal defense attorney representing indigent clients on behalf of the New Hampshire Public Defender. She currently serves on the board of directors of Suffolk Lawyers for Justice and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. She is a founding member of the New England Innocence Project. Professor Farber has published several articles relating to criminal law and procedure and juvenile justice. Her most recent articles appeared in the American Criminal Law Review and the South Carolina Law Review. She is teaching Professional Responsibility and Tactics and Trial Strategies in Criminal Litigation.

Keith R. Fisher
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Princeton University, AB 1975
Georgetown University, JD 1980

Prior to his visit at Northeastern, Professor Fisher taught for two years at the Michigan State University College of Law in East Lansing, Michigan, where he also served as associate director (and later acting director) of the Institute for Trade in the Americas. Prior to that, he taught at Suffolk University Law School and, while still in private practice, was an adjunct professor at Georgetown and Duke. Throughout the 1980s, Professor Fisher practiced law in Washington, DC, with Fulbright & Jaworski and Hogan & Hartson. In 1990, he was recruited to start a banking practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in Boston and Washington, DC. Throughout his nearly 20 years of law practice, he specialized in bank regulatory, securities, transactional, and legislative matters, and related litigation, including bank mergers and holding company acquisitions, commercial loans and lender liability disputes, representation of officers and directors in civil litigation and administrative enforcement proceedings, and counseling diverse clients, including money center banks, global securities firms, and the Securities Industry Association on financial services diversification, restructuring, and reform. He is teaching Corporate Finance and Banking.

Wendy Seltzer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Harvard University, AB 1996, JD 1999

Professor Seltzer's research focuses on the intersection of law and technology, particularly legal regulation of the Internet's new technologies of communication and self-expression. She is currently studying the uses and abuses of the DMCA notice-and-takedown process; the impact of copyright mandates on free and open-source software development; and privacy in dispersed personally identifying data. She has taught at Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School and Oxford's Said Business School and is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. She previously served as a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. She is teaching Intellectual Property, Software and Internet Law, Antitrust, and a seminar, Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property and Technology Regulation.

Susan Sloane
Visiting Academic Specialist
Vassar College, AB 1969
Boston University, JD 1972

Susan Sloane is co-director for writing and research of the Legal Skills in Social Context Program. She joined the Northeastern adjunct faculty in 2006-2007, teaching Legal Research and Writing. She previously taught a similar course at Boston University School of Law for four years, and has coached the Boston University undergraduate mock trial and mock mediation teams for many years. Professor Sloane is a mediator and collaborative lawyer who practices primarily in the field of family law. She began her legal career at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, and then served in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office as assistant attorney general in the Consumer Protection Division and as chief of the Division of Public Charities. She opened her own practice in 1985.