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Catherine A. Lemmer Head of Information Services, Ruth Lilly Law Library Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 131J 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-6165 Fax: (317) 274-8873 E-Mail: calemmer@iupui.edu SSRN

Education

B.A., magna cum laude,1982, Lawrence University
J.D. cum laude, 1989, University of Wisconsin
M.S., 2005, University of Illinois

Courses

Legal Analysis, Research and Communication (LARC), Legal Research, Legal Research-Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program – American Law for Foreign Lawyers

Bio

Catherine Lemmer supervises the public services division of the law library as Head of Information Services. She teaches legal research in the first year research and writing classes and in the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program - American Law for Foreign Lawyers. She is a teacher and co-creator of the required for-credit online legal research class for second year J.D. students and has designed research instruction for specific law school courses.

Professor Lemmer serves as a faculty research liaison and provides general reference and research support services to faculty and students. She developed and coordinates the library faculty research assistant program and provides research support for international law projects. She also serves as the liaison to the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review and as the faculty advisor to the Master of Laws student organization.

She is the incoming editor of AALL Spectrum and serves as co-editor of the law school’s Legal Scholarship Network: Legal Studies Research Paper Series (SSRN). She has presented at regional, state, and national library conferences and is a member of a number of legal and librarian professional organizations.

Professor Lemmer is active in numerous professional committees at the university, state, and national level dedicated to library research and scholarship, library leadership, and continuing legal education. She is the current and inaugural chair of the Indiana State Library Professional Development Committee and serves on the AALL Academic Law Libraries SIS Continuing Education Committee and AALL Academic Law Libraries SIS Research and Scholarship Committee.

Prior to her appointment to the law library faculty, she was the Project Manager for Evergreen Indiana, a 100-member library consortium. In this position, she was responsible for implementing a state-wide open source integrated library system initiative in partnership with the Indiana State Library. She was also a partner with the Chicago law firm of Vedder Price P.C., specializing in corporate and financial institutions law, and has held management positions in a public library.

She is a fellow of the Summer 2012 Harvard University Graduate School Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians and a member of the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and Beta Phi Mu.

Her research interests include online education, educational technology, competitive intelligence, leadership, and continuing legal education.

Publications

(SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1553995)
 

Book Reviews

*"Book review: Leslie Paik, Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court," 104 Law Libr. J. 323-325 (2012).

"Book review: Wyoma vanDuinkerken and Pixey Anne Mosley, The Challenge of Library Management: Leading with Emotional Engagement," 73 C. & Res. Libr. 97-99 (2012).

"Book review: Jay M. Feinman, Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 3rd ed.," 39 Int. J. Legal Info. 264-267 (2011).

"Book Review: Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards, Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well," Wis. Law., Sept. 2012, at 40,41.


Other Publications

Antitrust Law Research Guide

Bankrupty Law Research Guide

App'late Review (Summer 2012)