Susan Rieger is a grad­u­ate of Colum­bia Law School. She has worked as a res­i­den­tial col­lege dean at Yale and as an asso­ciate provost at Colum­bia. She has taught law to under­grad­u­ates at both schools and writ­ten fre­quent­ly about the law for news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. She is the author of The Heirs and The Divorce Papers. She lives in New York City with her husband.