Ms. Susannah Barton Tobin

Susannah Barton Tobin directs the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program at Harvard Law School. She received her B.A. in classics from Harvard College in 2000, an M.Phil. in classics from the University of Cambridge in 2001, and a J.D., from Harvard Law School in 2004. While in law school, she was a senior editor of the Harvard Civil-rights Civil Liberties Law Review and worked at the ACLU of Massachusetts and Ropes & Gray. She then clerked on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts for Judge Mark L. Wolf and on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for Judge Levin H. Campbell. She advised hundreds of Harvard undergraduates as a resident tutor for ten years in Leverett House, for which work the College recognized her with the Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling. She loves talking with students--please feel free to reach out with questions about law school, life as a lawyer, journalism, fellowships, and/or the plight of the Boston Red Sox.