Library Services for Faculty

The Faculty Research Service performs legal and non-legal research directly related to teaching in the Law School, speaking engagements, and writing for publication. Research is completed by reference librarians or by law student research assistants supervised by the librarian in charge of the service.

The Research Service cannot:

• Perform cite checking or source gathering. However, the service will help you fill in missing elements of citations, e.g., publication date, issue numbers, etc.
• Perform research related to active client matters or trial or appellate work, including amicus briefs.

For questions about the Research Service or to submit a project, please contact:

Shay Elbaum
Faculty Research Services Librarian
[email protected]
734.647.1746

Our full-time Research Associate for Empirical Legal Studies provides support for data-driven empirical research. This Service can assist with specific tasks in data-driven research, including:

• Interpreting published empirical research or statistical methods articles
• Data cleaning/organizing
• Helping to determine the scope of questions that a dataset can address (and identifying the limitations), as well as the statistical models that can be used
• Analyzing data (Stata preferred, also familiar with R, MATLAB, and others); creating tables and figures for publication
• Providing detailed written interpretation of statistical results; reviewing completed empirical research projects before sending to journal reviewers or after receiving reviewer feedback

The service cannot presently provide assistance with the following tasks:

• Finding data (outside of publicly accessible databases)
• Writing extensive portions of a paper, especially outside of the data, empirical framework, and results sections

• University of Michigan Law School regular and clinical law faculty
• Visiting and adjunct law faculty during the semesters they are teaching in the Law School
• Law School deans and administrators

Hours of Operation

• Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact:

Shay Elbaum
Faculty Research Services Librarian
[email protected]
734.647.1746

For more information

The Law Faculty Document Delivery Service retrieves and delivers books, articles, primary law sources, and other publications from the Law Library, other campus libraries, licensed or free online sources, and Interlibrary Loan.

Send requests or questions to [email protected].

• University of Michigan Law School regular and clinical law faculty
• Visiting and adjunct law faculty during the semesters they are teaching in the Law School
• Law School deans and administrators
• Law School Faculty Assistants may make requests and receive materials on behalf of professors

Hours of Operation

• Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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Call: 734.764.0359

To check on the status of a request, report a problem or for other questions, contact:

Keith Lacy
Reference Librarian
[email protected]
734.764.6151

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Reference librarians provide research instruction to second and third-year Law School classes and clinical law programs to assist law students with research strategies for writing seminar papers or performing specialized legal research. Please request a research session at least 2–3 weeks before the date of the requested session.

Contact

Seth Quidachay-Swan
Assistant Director for Collections & Access Services
[email protected]
734.764.6150

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Course Support Scanning

The Law Library handles requests for material needed for courses in print or electronic format. We will deliver materials to you or upload them to your Canvas site.

Course Reserves

The Law Library will place material on reserve for your courses each semester.

Contact

[email protected]
Phone: 734.615.6985

The Law Library tracks published and forthcoming books, articles, book chapters, introductions/forewords, and book reviews written or edited by regular University of Michigan law faculty. 

Faculty Publications

For updates or corrections, contact: [email protected]

The University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository offers global access to Michigan Law faculty scholarship and the 8 student edited Michigan Law Journals. Before the Library will load any scholarship, Faculty must grant permission for their works to be included.

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Scholarship Repository

The Law Library will upload your working papers to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). You may also elect to include your paper in one of two Michigan Law research paper series on SSRN:

Law & Economics

Public Law & Legal Theory

Guide for Submitting to Law Journals

The Law School has an institutional account for Scholastica. You will need to set up an individual account to submit under the Law School’s institutional account. Costs of submissions will be deducted from either your Cook funds or other research funds.

Scholastica Information

Jessica Pasquale
Assistant Director for Scholarly Publishing and Information Services
[email protected]
734.647.8713

Sarah Woloschuk
Scholarly Publishing Librarian
[email protected] 
734.647.1562
 

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