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Susan Raeker-Jordan teaches in the areas of torts, civil procedure, products liability, and capital punishment. Her research and writing has focused both on capital punishment and the Eighth Amendment and on products liability, with a number of articles in leading law reviews on both topics.
Professor Raeker-Jordan joined the faculty at Widener in 1990. She was an assistant professor from 1993-96, an associate professor from 1996-2005, and professor of law since 2005. She was associate dean for faculty research and development from 2007-09. She also taught legal methods on the law school’s Delaware campus from 1990-93.
Professor Raeker-Jordan has served as secretary of the AALS Section on Law and Mental Disability. She served as an editor of the South Carolina Law Review.
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- Civil Procedure
- Torts
Scholarship
- 9 Article
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Kennedy, Kennedy, and the Eighth Amendment: "Still in Search of a Unifying Principle"? / Raeker-Jordan, Susan.
In: University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, 2011, p. 107.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impeachment Calls and Death Threats: Assessing Criticisms of the Death Penalty Jurisprudence of Justices Kennedy and O’Connor. / Raeker-Jordan, Susan.
In: Wayne Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2006, p. 1127.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Parsing Personal Predilections: A Fresh Look at the Supreme Court’s Cruel and Unusual Death Penalty Jurisprudence. / Raeker-Jordan, Susan.
In: Maine Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2006, p. 99.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Study in Judicial Sleight of Hand: Did Geier v. American Honda Motor Co. Eradicate the Presumption Against Preemption? / Raeker-Jordan, Susan.
In: BYU Journal of Public Law, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2002, p. 1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Pre-Emption Presumption that Never Was: Pre-Emption Doctrine Swallows the Rule. / Raeker-Jordan, Susan.
In: Arizona Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1998, p. 1379.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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