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CHRISTOPHER SIMONI
Director of the Law Library
Professor of Law
Email: Christopher.Simoni@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4767
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room L365
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Education
M.L.I.S. University of Texas at Austin
J.D. Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law
Ph.D. Marquette University
M.A. Marquette University
A.B. University of Michigan
Christopher Simoni has played a role in modernizing academic
law libraries in the U.S. and his areas of interest include information
policy and copyright and the evolving nature of research communities.
Professor Simoni came
to Drexel from Northwestern University School of Law, where
he was associate dean for library and information
technology and professor of law and director of the Pritzker
Legal Research Center. While at Northwestern, he developed a
library-faculty liaison program and the Pritzker Faculty Research
Fellow program, and led the transformation to a combined print
and digital collection. He also coordinated electronic publishing
initiatives and was responsible for managing the law school’s
journals, helping get three new student edited journals launched
and on the web. At Northwestern, he taught advanced legal research
and researching the scholarly paper.
Previously, he was an assistant professor of law and library
director at Marquette University Law School. At Marquette, he
taught legislation and advanced legal research.
Before going to Marquette, Professor Simoni served as the associate
director for public services and, for a while, acting library
director at Northwestern and before that as assistant director
of the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin.
Before beginning in libraries he was associate professor of law
at Willamette University College of Law, teaching legal research
and writing, torts, administrative law, and environmental law.
A member of the Law
Library Microform Consortium Board of Directors, he serves
as vice-chair of the Facilities Committee of the Legal
Education and Admissions to the Bar Section of the American Bar
Association. He previously served on various ABA committees including
the Law Libraries’ Committee and the Questionnaire Committee,
and has served on a variety of committees of the American Association
of Law Libraries.
He completed consultancies with law libraries at the Addis Ababa
University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the University of Ghana
in Legon, Ghana, advising them on the uses of information technology
as one means of increasing access to legal information.
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