Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns Lillian Goldman Law Library [email protected] Yale Law School 203-432-1601 New Haven, Connecticut
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC LIBRARY EXPERIENCE Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School August 22, 2005 – present Law Librarian and Professor of Law (July 2016 – present) • Director of the Law Library. Tenured member of the Law School Faculty. • Responsible for oversight of all aspects of the Law Library including space, budget, services, collections, and personnel. Lead projects and analyze data to improve allocation of library resources. Consult directly with dean, faculty, and students to determine policies and priorities of the Law Library. Lead initiatives to improve open access and resource sharing. Maintain active scholarship agenda. Oversee research assistants and independent student writing assignments. Teach when possible/as needed. Very active professionally (details below). • See, https://library.law.yale.edu/yale-law-library-annual-reports, for priorities, initiatives, and work of the Law Library. See, https://library.law.yale.edu/strategic-plan-2014-2018, for strategic plan. • Previous positions: Acting Director (Jan. – June 2015) / Deputy Director (Aug. 2014 – June 2016) / Associate Law Librarian for Administration (July 2011 – July 2014) / Associate Law Librarian for Foreign and International Law (July 2010 – June 2012) / Head of Foreign and International Law Reference (July 2008 – June 2010) / Reference Librarian for Foreign and International Law (Aug. 2006 – June 2008) / Reference Librarian (August 2005 – July 2006) / Latin American & Iberian Bibliographer (2006 – 2015) / Lecturer in Law and Legal Research (Aug. 2005 – June 2016)
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Arizona Library August 2004 - May 2005 Graduate Assistant Tucson, Arizona • Member of library’s Strategic Long Range Planning Team, Budget Advisory Group, and Arizona Electronic Atlas (GIS); participate in Atlas workshops on National GIS day and Arizona Library Association conference; assist with undergraduate research instructional sessions
Office of the Federal Public Defender Assistant Federal Public Defender Miami, Florida January 2001 - March 2002 Tucson, Arizona October 1998 - Dec. 2000 • Attorney for indigent persons accused of federal offenses; instructor for attorneys regarding immigration laws and the defense of criminal cases; contributing legal writer to local newsletters; local Spanish television appearances for legal matters • Member of the Arizona Bar Association (retired)
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Defender Association of Philadelphia Sept. 1994 - October 1998 Assistant Public Defender • Attorney for indigent persons accused of crimes; Major Trials Unit; Juvenile Special Defense Unit • Member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (retired) Sole Practitioner Tucson, Arizona October 2003 - June 2004
Professional / Semi-Pro Soccer Player Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Pennsylvania Freedom / United German Hungarian Club 1994-1998
USSF, WPS, and NCAA Soccer Referee 1982-2010 Highlights: • U.S. v. Ireland 2010 • USSF National Championships 2009 • Women’s Professional Soccer League 2009-10 • NCAA Div. III Championships 2010 • Ivy Championship 2008 • Big East Championships 2007 • Connecticut High School State Finals 2008-10
TEACHING • Law, Politics, and Society in Latin America (1 unit) • Advanced Legal Research (2 – 3 units) • Specialized Legal Research: Foreign and International Law (1 unit) • Specialized Legal Research: Immigration (1 unit) • Specialized Legal Research: Tax (1 unit) • Dozens of specialized workshops and research session for faculty, clinics, journals, students
SCHOLARSHIP Book Chapters: • Collecting the Law of Latin America: History, Challenges, and Trends in LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION CONCEPTS: ESSAYS ON LIBRARIES, COLLABORATIONS AND NEW APPROACHES (McFarland & Co. 2018), with Julienne Grant (forthcoming). Editor: Gayle Williams.
• Argentina in SOURCES OF STATE PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2nd ed.) (Brill, 2014). Editors: Ralph Gaebler and Alison Shea. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/36 • Mexico in SOURCES OF STATE PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2nd ed.) (Brill, 2014). Editors: Ralph Gaebler and Alison Shea. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/37/
Miguel-Stearns_CV_July2018_p.2 • Comparative Law: Academic Perspectives, INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LEGAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, pp. 297-342 (Ashgate, London 2011). Editors: Richard Danner and Jules Winterton. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/35/. This book won the AALL Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award (2012).
Articles: • ALLStAR: How Collaborating on Collecting and Sharing Data is a Win-Win, 22(2) AALL Spectrum 12 (November/December 2017), http://epubs.aallnet.org/i/885303-aall-spectrum-november- december-2017-volume-22-number-2. Cover article (with Jessica Panella and Christine Iaconeta). • Cuba in the International Arena in Guide to Cuban Law and Legal Research, 45(2) International Journal of Legal Information 1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/jli.2017.22 • International Treaties in Mexican Law and Legal Research, 35(1) Legal Reference Services Quarterly 1 (2016). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0270319X.2016.1121077. • Judicial Power in Latin America: A Short Survey, 15(2) Legal I. Mgmnt. 100-107 (Journal of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) (2015). http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/32/ • More than a Bunch of Old Books: Perspectives from Rare Book School, 19(5) AALL Spectrum 27 (2015) (with Susan Gualtier, Sarah Ryan, and Fang Wang). • The Empirical Research Law Librarian, Making the Case and Filling the Role, 24 Trends L. Libr. Mgmnt. & Tech. 1 (pt. 1) http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/29/, 7 (pt. 2) http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/28/ (2014) (with Sarah Ryan). • The Digital Legal Landscape in South America: Government Transparency and Access to Information, 40 Int’l. J. Legal I. 39 (2012). http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/26/ • Planning for the 21st Century: Creating a Strategic Plan at the Yale Law Library, Part I: Planning the Plan, 21 Trends L. Libr. Mgmnt. & Tech. 37 (2011) http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/24/; Part II: Writing the Plan, 22 Trends L. Libr. Mgmt. & Tech. 1 (2012) http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/25/ (with Jason Eiseman). • A Closer Look: Uncovering the Spanish Roots of Louisiana Civil Law, 38 Int’l. J. Leg. I. 295 (2011) (with Dennis Kim-Prieto and Vicenc Feliu). Extensive utilization of Rare Book Room. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/23/ • Exchanging Books in Western Europe: A Brief History of International Interlibrary Loan, 35 Int’l. J. Leg. I. 499 (2007). http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/22/ • Librarian Activities at the Spanish Book Fair: LIBER 2006 (Brown University Iberian Studies, 2007). • Title IX and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Case Analyses, Legal Implications, and the Movement towards Compliance, 1 Sports Law. J. 279 (1994), cited in Cohen v. Brown Univ., 879 F.Supp. 185, FN.3 (1995). http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/22/
Book Review: • A Basic Course in Public International Law Research. Anthony S. Winer and Mary Ann E. Archer (University Press of America, 2005), 34 Int’l. J. Legal I. 447 (2006).
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Brief / Oral Argument: • Mock Appeal: Shylock v. Antonio and Portia. Brief on behalf of co-appellee, Portia. Library of Congress (2017). Oral arguments on June 21, 2017 before United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/07/justice-for-shylock-a- mock-appeal/ (video – 1:16:10 begins my argument to the court).
Conference Papers & Presentations: • Internal Assessment and Peer Benchmarking in Academic Law Libraries: The Advanced Session, hands-on wokshop featuring ALLStAR, July 14, 2018, AALL pre-conference workshop, Baltimore, with Bob Dugan (ALLStAR Project Manager), Michelle Hudson (Yale), Jessica Panella (UConn) and Christine Iaconeta (Maine). • SELA Bibliotecarios, concurrent conference of local law librarians during Yale SELA conference, June 2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; June 2017 in Quito, Ecuador. • Research4Life: Access to Research in the Developing World, hands-on workshop, June 5, 2018, ACURIL, Santo Domingo, with Nina Scholtz (Cornell) and Marisol Floren-Romero (Florida International) – bilingual presentation. • Global Online Access to Legal Information, GOALI, Spanish-language presentation on fifth and newest module in Research4Life, June 4, 2018, ACURIL, Santo Domingo, with Nina Scholtz (Cornell) and Marisol Floren-Romero (Florida International). • Effective Assessment: Measuring Your Law Library's Impact, panelist, American Association of Law Schools, Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information, January 6, 2018. I spoke specifically about ALLStAR’s ability to internally assess and peer benchmark. • Library Metrics: What We're Tracking & How, panelist, American Association of Law Libraries, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section webinar, Dec. 8, 2017. • Cuban Law and Legal Research, panelist, American Association of Law Libraries, Austin, Texas, July 18, 2017. • Internal Assessment and Peer Benchmarking in Academic Law Libraries, pre-conference workshop on using ALLStAR, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, July 15, 2017. • Represented Portia in a mock appeal of Shylock (Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice). Written brief and oral arguments were before a panel of judges that included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2017. • Led a parallel conference for Latin American law librarians at SELA in Quito, Ecuador, June 2017. Participants were from Argentina, Ecuador, and Mexico. • Workshops, ALLStAR Benchmarking, NELLCO Symposium, Garden City, NY, Mar. 9–10, 2017. • Benchmarking in Academic Law Libraries, Meeting of the Society of Academic Law Library Directors, American Association of Law Schools (AALS), San Francisco, CA, Jan. 6, 2017. • ALLStAR Benchmarking for Academic Law Libraries, Law Librarians of New England (LLNE),
Miguel-Stearns_CV_July2018_p.4 Portland, Maine, Oct. 28, 2016. • Inside the Ivory Tower: Competitive Intelligence for Law Schools, “ALLStAR Benchmarking,” panelist, American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 17, 2016. • Land Grabbing: Accessing Information to Protect Property Rights of Indigenous People, AALL (San Antonio, July 2014). Panel Coordinator and Moderator. • Indigenous Law in the Americas, Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (Miami, FL, 2013). Speaker. • The Digital Legal Landscape in South America: Government Transparency and Access to Information, International Federation of Library Associations (San Juan, PR, 2011). Speaker. • Taking It Up A Notch: Career Advancement for Diverse Mid-Career Professionals, Knowledge River 10-year Reunion Conference (Tucson, AZ, 2011). Speaker. • Drug Trafficking and Democratic Security in Colombia, PorColombia Student Conference (New Haven, CT, 2011). Panel Moderator. • Researching the Law in Latin America, Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (Providence, RI, 2010). Speaker. Paper converted to research guide. • Thinking about Treaties: Interpretation, in Force, and Internet. AALL (Washington, DC, 2009). Panel Coordinator, Moderator, Speaker. Created research guide in conjunction with panel and presentation. • Foreign and International Legal Research, AALL (Washington, DC, 2009). Roundtable moderator. • Closer Look: Uncovering the Spanish Roots of Louisiana Civil Law, AALL (New Orleans, LA, 2007). Panel organizer and moderator. • Confronting Atrocities, AALL (St. Louis, MO, 2006). Speaker. Presentation converted to research guide. • Networking and Negotiating, with Jolie Ogg Graybill. ALA Midwinter Conference (San Antonio, 2006). Speaker. • Money and Power: The Economic & Political Challenges Facing Latin America, with Yale World Fellows Joaquin Jacome-Diez and Henrique Fernando Salas-Romer (Yale Law School, 2005).
Senior Advisor: • Bowker’s Best Reference Books, LC Class K: Law. (R.R. Bowker 2005).
Newsletter articles: • Cuban Chronicles: Segunda Parte (A Bibliophile’s Shopping Guide to Havana), 31(2) FCIL Newsletter 8 (2017). • Visit to the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí, 31(1) FCIL Newsletter 1 (2016).
RESEARCH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • Michael Widener and Mark Weiner, Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection (Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2017), p.210. • Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro, THE INTERNATIONALISTS: HOW A RADICAL PLAN TO OUTLAW WAR
Miguel-Stearns_CV_July2018_p.5 REMADE THE WORLD (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017) p.425. • Diane Desierto, PUBLIC POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW: THE ICESCR IN TRADE, FINANCE, AND INVESTMENT (Oxford: OUP, 2015), p.x.
• Reisman, Michael and Christina Parajon, FRAUDULENT EVIDENCE BEFORE PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: THE DIRTY STORIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Cambridge: CUP, 2014), p. x. • Bierne, Logan, BLOOD OF TYRANTS: GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE FORGING OF THE PRESIDENCY (New York: Encounter Books, 2013), Acknowledgements. • Weil, Patirck, THE SOVEREIGN CITIZEN: DENATURALIZATION AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), p. 284. • Kaufman, Zachary, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGE OF ATROCITIES: CHANGING OUR WORLD (Chentenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2012), p. xxx. • Desierto, Diane, NECESSITY AND NATIONAL EMERGENCY CLAUSES: SOVEREIGNTY IN MODERN TREATY INTERPRETATION (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012), p. x. • Hathaway, Oona A., et al, Tortured Reasoning: The Intent to Torture under International and Domestic Law, 52 Va. J. Int’l L. 791, FN 1 (2012). • Hathaway, Oona A., et al, The Law of Cyber-Attack, 100 California Law Review 817, FN 1 (2012). • Hathaway, Oona A., et al, International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in U.S. Courts, 37 Yale J. Int’l L. 51, FN 1 (2012). • Crissidis, Nikolaos, Crying Their Hearts Out: A Case of Public Penance in the Era of Catherine the Great in RELIGION AND IDENTITY IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR PAUL BUSHKOVITCH (Slavica Pub., Bloomington, 2011) p. 107, FN 1. • Hathaway, Oona A. and Ackerman, Bruce, Limited War and the Constitution: Iraq and the Crisis of Presidential Legality, 109 Michigan L. R. 447, FN 1 (2011). • Hathaway, Oona A. and Shapiro, Scott, Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law, 121 Yale L. J. 252, Author Note (2011). • Hernandez-Romo Valencia, Pablo, LAS GARANTIAS DEL INCULPADO, (Mexico, Ed. Porrúa, 2009), Agradecimiento. • Desierto, Diane, International Law: Regional Developments in South and Southeast Asia in MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford, OUP), FN 1 (2008).
SERVICE International: • GOALI launch March 6, 2018 • Research4Life Executive Board – founding member GOALI 2015 – present • International Association of Law Librarians (IALL) – Editorial Board 2017 – 2019 • International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) – Standing Committee for Law Libraries 2015 – 2019 • Law Library of Congress’ Global Legal Information Network Foundation 2010 – 2013 • International Association of Law Librarians (IALL) – Awards Committee 2009 – 2013
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National: • American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar Site Evaluation Teams for Law School Accreditation October 2017, March 2018 • ALLStAR Advisory Board (Chair) Academic Law Libraries: Statistics, Analytics, and Reports 2016 – present • NELLCO Board of Directors 2016 – present • Chair – Executive Director Search Committee 2016 – 2017 • LLMC Advisory Board 2017 – present • American Association of Law Librarians (AALL) Foreign, Comparative & International Law Special Interest Section • Vice Chair / Chair / Immediate Past Chair 2013-2016 • FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians (Chair 2010-11) 2009-2011 • Website Committee (Webmaster 2008-2013) 2008 - present Latino Caucus o Chair 2010-2011 o Advisory Representative to the Executive Board 2007-2008 Leadership Academy Attendee / Mentor 2008 / 2012-2013 • Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, Mentor 2015 – present • Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) Panel Coordinator and Rapporteur 2008, 2010 • American Society of International Law (ASIL) Editor: International Human Rights Research page 2006-2007
Yale Law School • Faculty Committees o Discipline – Complaint Panel 2016 - present o Discipline – Hearing Panel 2016 – present • Associate Deans + • Diversity Working Group 2017 – present
Yale Law Library: • Exhibit: Pauli Murray: 1961 – 1965 2017 – 2018 • Law Library Leadership Team (Chair) 2016 – present • Executive Committee (Chair) Jan. – June 2015 • Executive Committee 2010 – 2016
Miguel-Stearns_CV_July2018_p.7 • Disaster Planning Committee (Chair) 2012 – 2016 • Space Planning Committee (Chair) 2012 – 2016 • Strategic Planning Committee (Chair) 2009 – 2010 • Strategic Planning Committee 2013 – 2014 • Professional Development Committee 2015 – 2016 • Outreach Committee 2005 – 2016 • Communications Committee 2010 – 2015 o Exhibit: Magna Carta and its Legacy, Co-curator June 2015 (extensive utilization of Rare Book Collection) o Exhibit: Policing the Police / The Power of Protest / December 2014 First Amendment / Civil Disobedience, Co-curator
Yale University Library • Yale University Library Diversity Council (Co-chair) 2005 – 2007 • Labor Management Problem Solving Team 2011 – 2013 • Search Committee for Latin American Librarian 2011 – 2012 • Search Committee for YUL Archivist 2009
Community: • Volunteer, Apostle Immigrant Services (Fair Haven) 2008 – present Founder, Sr. Mary Ellen Burns, LAW’89
AWARDS • Individual Awards: o AALL Foreign, Comparative & Int’l Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) Reynolds and Flores Publication Award (FCIL website) (2013) o AALL Excellence in Marketing, Best Brochure (2011 Annual Report) (2012) o Finalist: Yale Law Women Faculty Excellence Award (2011) o AALL FCIL-SIS Daniel Wade Outstanding Service Award (2010)
• Team Awards: o AALL Foreign, Comparative & Int’l Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) Reynolds and Flores Publications Award for Mexican Law and Legal Research, 35(1) Legal Reference Services Quarterly 1 (2016). (2017) o AALL Foreign, Comparative & Int’l Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) Reynolds and Flores Publications Award for SOURCES OF STATE PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2nd ed.) (Brill 2014). Editors: Ralph Gaebler and Alison Shea. I contributed two chapters: Argentina and Mexico (2015)
Miguel-Stearns_CV_July2018_p.8 o Yale Law Women Staff Excellence Award (entire Library) (2014) o American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Publications Award, Print Division for the 2012 Emergency Flip Booklet (2013) o AALL Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award for the INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LEGAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (Ashgate, London 2011). Editors: Richard Danner and Jules Winterton. I contributed chapter: Comparative Law: Academic Perspectives (297-342) (2012) o Lexis Top 25 International Blogs of 2011; I was creator and 80% contributor (2011) o Yale University Library Team Excellence Award (Diversity Council, Chair) (2007)
EDUCATION University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona M.A. Library and Information Science May 2006 • Knowledge River Scholar and Scholarship • Association of Research Libraries Scholarship
University of Richmond School of Law Richmond, Virginia Juris Doctor May 1994 • BNA Graduation Award: Outstanding Progress and Achievement 1994 • Vice President, Student Bar Association 1993 - 1994 • Officer, Multi-Ethnic Law Students Association 1992 - 1994 • Chair, Law Forum 1992 - 1993
Summer Internships: • Fiscalía General de Venezuela (Caracas) 1993 • St. Louis County Public Defender’s Office 1993 • Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafely & Davis (St. Louis) 1992
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin B.A. December 1990 • Majors: English Literature and Sociology; Criminal Justice Certificate • Varsity Soccer Scholarship, Academic All-Big Ten Women’s Soccer, Dean’s List
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas Salamanca, Spain • Superior level Spanish course February - June 2003 • Passed DELE exam (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera)
Rare Book School New Haven, Conn. • Instructor: Michael Widener, Rare Book Librarian, Yale Law Library June 2014 • Intensive instruction on rare books and special collections
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LANGUAGES Spanish fluency; bibliographic knowledge Italian, German, French, and Portuguese
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