Susan Fortney, 2010 Texas Tech Integrated Scholar

Susan Fortney - Law

To imagine the integrated scholarly work of Susan Fortney, you have to consider her elected membership (1999) in the TTU Teaching Academy (recognizing many of the university's best teachers), appointment as a Paul Whitfield Horn Professor in 2008 (the most distinguished recognition the university offers for its faculty), TTU School of Law Distinguished Researcher Awards (2007 and 2006), Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award (2006), Presidential Academic Achievement Award (for teaching, research, and service in 2005), Spencer Wells Award for Creative Excellence in Teaching (2001-02), and President's Excellence in Teaching Award (2000). And, that is just within the university. Consider further her being designated by the Texas Bar Foundation as the Lola Wright Foundation Award for outstanding public service (2010), being named one of the 30 Extraordinary Women of Texas Law by Texas Lawyer, and being inducted as an inaugural member of the National Institute on Teaching Legal Ethics and Professionalism (2005), and you see how strong her case is for the integrated scholarship moniker. Formal recognition aside, Professor Fortney is also known among the Texas Tech law students as an outstanding teacher in a variety of areas from bioethics to legal ethics and malpractice to immigration to torts, among others. Her expertise in ethics and malpractice arises in part out of her seminal texts (e.g., Legal Malpractice Law: Problems and Prevention, 2008) and myriad articles and presentations at venues spanning at least three continents. Now with her recent service to the university and TTU's School of Law as associate dean and currently interim dean, the claim as integrated scholar becomes even more tangible.

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