Susan E. Salazar (she/her) teaches the Mediation Clinic, the Mediation Lawyering Seminar and Professional Responsibility.
Prior to her appointment at CUNY School of Law, Professor Salazar practiced employment law for more than 20 years, representing clients in discrimination, harassment, wage claims, worker misclassification, disability, arbitrations, mediations, unemployment insurance, and other employment-related matters. She also arbitrated Part 137 attorney-client fee disputes.
Professor Salazar mediates wage and hour and employment discrimination and other cases for the U.S. District Court for both the Southern District & Eastern District of New York and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
From 2015 to 2018, she was appointed to serve on the United States District Court, Southern District of New York’s Mediator Advisory Committee. From 2020 to 2023 she served on the Board of Directors of The Association of Conflict Resolution Greater New York Chapter, Inc. She served as the co-chair of the Academia sub-committee of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the New York City Bar Association for the 2023 – 2024 term. She has been an active member of the Executive Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association, co-chairing the Membership Committee from 2020 through the term ending in 2024. She is a former co-chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the New York Women’s Bar Association. She also served as a mediator for the New York Peace Institute in New York City Civil Court and coached students in Brooklyn Law School’s Mediation Clinic.
She earned her B.A. from Rutgers University where she majored in history and minored in women’s studies and is a graduate of New York Law School.
Professor Salazar has most recently been selected as the chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
