Susan Martyn is Distinguished University Professor and Stoepler Professor of Law and Values Emeritus at the University of Toledo College of Law, where she taught Legal Ethics, Torts, and Bioethics. She has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Marquette, George Washington, and Yale Law Schools.

Professor Martyn has been instrumental in developing the law governing lawyers, serving as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (1987-2000), and as a member of the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission, which updated the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (1997-2002). She has been a member of the Michigan, Ohio, and Supreme Court Bars, and served on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Rules of Professional Conduct (2003-2006). She also was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2007-2010), and is a life member of the American Law Institute.

With Larry Fox, Professor Martyn has written a casebook, Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility, and edited The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law (joined by W. Bradley Wendel). Together, Professor Martyn and Mr. Fox have also authored Red Flags: A Lawyer's Handbook on Legal Ethics, Your Lawyer: A User’s Guide, How to Deal with Your Lawyer: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions, The Ethics of Representing Organizations: Legal Fictions for Clients, Fair Fight: Legal Ethics for Litigators, and Representing Clients: An Ethics Guide for Clinical Law Students and Emerging Lawyers. They have also contributed to and served as editors of A Century of Legal Ethics: Trial Lawyers and The ABA Canons of Professional Ethics.