Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus

Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus joined the faculty at Touro in 2000 as a Legal Process professor and in 2003 became the Director of Academic Development, and served in that role until 2021. 

 

Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus' scholarly interests are wide and varied, as reflected in her numerous publications. She has published in the areas of contracts, labor law, the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule, and federal preemption of state tort law as it relates to government regulation of medical devices. She has published extensively in the area of bar exam preparation and law school learning. Her books include: The Bar Exam in a Nutshell; Acing the Bar Exam; A Short & Happy Guide to the Bar Exam's Multistate Essay Examination; and Mastering the Law School Exam. She has also written many law review articles in this area.

 

Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus authored two books in the area of Contracts, Acing Contracts and Mapping Contracts. She also authored a book specifically on the New York Bar Exam published in 2012 by Thomson West titled The New York Bar Exam by the Issue, co-authored with Myra Berman and John. C. Cooney. 

 

Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus is the series editor of a series of books for West entitled Mapping the Law: Cases and Concepts, which will include a Mapping for each of the first year subjects.

 

Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus focuses on integrating learning theory into the classroom.  She has taught a section of Contracts II for first year students in academic difficulty where analytical skills development is integrated with the teaching of substantive course doctrine. She also has taught a for-credit bar-preparation course for graduating students which provides extensive instruction in bar study principles and answering bar examination essay and MBE questions. Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus also presents on issues of academic support.

 

Prior to joining the faculty, she was in private practice at a public sector labor law firm. Here she prepared a comparability study of the collective bargaining agreements for the police and firefighters unions over a 20-year period for the 38 cities, towns, and villages that comprise Westchester County for a compulsory interest arbitration. The arbitration resulted in an award that broke a 20-year pattern of pay parity that had held back increases for the City of White Plains Policy Department.

 

Before attending law school, Professor Darrow-Kleinhaus was a technical writer in the software, electronic, and medical device manufacturing industries. She was also an adjunct faculty member of Polytechnic University where she taught Report Writing.

 

As a Regulator Affairs Correspondent for a $43 million medical device manufacturer, she oversaw all regulator reporting requirements to the FDA, including drafting and filing Annual Reports, device listings, 510(k) Premarket Notifications, Initial reports and Report Supplements. She researched and wrote protocols for clinical trials of new products, monitored Investigative Review Board studies for the clinical use of investigational medical devices and coordinated the company's ISO certification.

 

Special projects in data communications included writing the Instruction Manual for a network patching system for Tinker Air Force Base, system documentation for a network control and restoral system for the San Francisco Bay Rapid Transit System and an operator's manual for a monitoring system for Bell Canada.

 

Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus received a B.A. from Hofstra University (summa cum laude) and her J.D. from Touro Law Center (summa cum laude).