Julienne E. Grant

Reference Librarian/Foreign and International Research Specialist

Julienne E. Grant serves as Reference Librarian/Foreign and International Research Specialist in the School of Law Library, and she is also an adjunct professor in the law school. Professor Grant has published articles in Legal Reference Services Quarterly and the International Journal of Legal Information. She has also contributed to GlobaLex, an online platform dedicated to foreign and international legal research, and the DipLawMatic Dialogues blog, which is sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries’ Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS). She is an active member of the FCIL-SIS, and she served as chair of the FCIL-SIS’s Latin American Law Interest Group from 2012 to 2017. In 2019, she received the FCIL-SIS’s Daniel L. Wade Outstanding Service Award and was a co-winner of the Reynolds and Flores Publications Award. In addition to her educational degrees listed below, Professor Grant earned a Certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago’s Graham School in 2019.

Education

BA, Middlebury College
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MALS, Rosary College (Dominican University)
JD, DePaul University

Specialty Area

Law Library

Courses Taught

Basic Legal Research, Advanced Legal Research (Foreign & International), Independent Research

Publications/Research Listings

“The Rule of Law in Ecuador During the Pandemic,” Monitoring Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean, Covid-19 Reports on Latin America and the Caribbean: No. 14 (November 9, 2020), https://lawlibrariansmonitoringcovid19.com/2020/11/08/the-rule-of-law-in-ecudaor-during-the-pandemic/.

“Unpaved Roads to Oklahoma: Researching the Story of My Family’s Mineral Rights,” 39.1 LEGAL REF. SERV. Q. 1 (2020).

“Collecting the Law of Latin America: History, Challenges and Trends in U.S. Law Libraries,” in Latin American Collection Concepts: Essays on Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches. Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2019) (with Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns).

“UPDATE: Researching the Law of Latin America,” GlobaLex (January 2018), https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex//Latin_America_Law_Research1.html.

“Guide to Cuban Law and Legal Research,” 45.2 INT'L. J. LEGAL INFO. 76 (Summer 2017) (co-editor and co-author).