SUSAN L. CROCKIN, JD is a Senior Scholar and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law where she teaches Assisted Reproductive Technology (“ART”) Law courses she created. She has practiced, taught, and written extensively about “ART Law” for over 30 years. Since 1988, she has been the principal of the Crockin Law & Policy Group, one of the first US law firms exclusively focused on Adoption and ART Law, and acts as a legal expert as well as represents and consults to ART participants, clinics and programs. She is the principal investigator for Jones Rounds™ (www.jonesrounds.org), an inter-disciplinary educational program addressing cutting-edge issues at the intersection of reproductive medicine, law and ethics designed for REI and ART professionals and trainees.

She is the editor or co-author of 3 books on ART law, policy and ethics, including “Legal Conceptions: the Evolving Law and Policy of the ARTs” (co-authored with the late Dr. Howard W. Jones, Jr), creator and author of ASRM’s column “Legally Speaking,” and author of dozens of peer-reviewed articles and chapters on inter-disciplinary ART issues. She is a member of ASRM’s Ethics Committee and Legal Professional Group, SART’s Model Consent Forms committee, AAARTA, and worked on NCCUSL’s Uniform Parentage Act of 2017 and amendments.