Dr. Daniel A. Austin teaches bankruptcy and commercial law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. He practiced bankruptcy and commercial law for 16 years before joining the faculty at Northeastern in 2009. Dr. Austin has also lectured at universities in China, Russia and Turkey, and has authored articles dealing with consumer and business bankruptcy, as well as constitutional aspects of bankruptcy law. He co-authored Reaffirmation Agreements in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases (ABI, 1st ed. 2009 and 2d ed. 2010) and served as the ABI Consumer Bankruptcy Committee Task Force Leader from 2010 to 2012. He has also been a speaker at many legal and academic conferences. Dr. Austin is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and is admitted to practice in federal courts in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. He received his B.A. from Brigham Young University, his J.D. from Columbia Law School, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Prof. Susan E. Hauser teaches civil procedure, bankruptcy and business associations and has been a member of the faculty at North Carolina Central University School of Law since August 2005. She received the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013, and was named Professor of the Year by her students in 2011 and 2008. In the fall of 2012, Prof. Hauser served as ABI’s Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar. In October 2012, Prof. Hauser received the American Bankruptcy Law Journal Editors’ Prize, and she was elected to the American Bankruptcy Law Journal Editorial Advisory Board in 2013. She was also an American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow in the fall of 2005. Prof. Hauser publishes and presents on the treatment of student loan debt in bankruptcy, predatory lending, bankruptcy procedure, and the intersection between constitutional law and bankruptcy law. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina. She clerked for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge J. Rich Leonard and U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt, both of the Eastern District of North Carolina, and began her legal career as an attorney for Legal Aid in Robeson County, N.C. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina School of Law.