Major projects

Six regional roundtables with partners at Suffolk, Georgia State, Stanford, Northwestern, and Ohio State, and more than 100 participants. Now in phase two: working groups building a central organization, a knowledge hub, and tiered AI training for legal information professionals.

The companion site for Law Practice in the Age of AI & Big Data, the course I proposed at Duke and brought with me to Arizona. Modules for each role a lawyer plays with AI: user, evaluator, builder, steward.

An open textbook and interactive companion: research as a sequence of questions, not a list of databases.

The field’s introductory text, co-edited with Zanada Joyner. Second edition 2025. Winner of the Joseph A. Andrews Legal Literature Award and the ALL-SIS Book Award.

A funded route into the profession: mentorship, an assistantship, and explicit training on the hidden mores nobody writes down. Three open handbooks published so far, and the first two law librarians without J.D.s placed.

I converted BLM parcel records into PLSS designations, mapped them in ArcGIS, and calculated the land the university received: over 750,000 acres. Two AALL awards in 2024.

Professor Keith Richotte and his research assistants built the dataset behind this: every Supreme Court Indian law case and how each justice voted. I advised on how to structure it and, using AI-assisted web development, built the site that makes it public. Launching 2026.

PEW-funded empirical research ranking all 50 states’ medical debt consumer protections. National coverage, statutory change in several states, and the 2023 AALL Innovation in Technology Award.

With the International Dark Sky Association: a database of light pollution laws nationwide for advocates and scholars, plus a web map. I restructured the workflow around user research and a minimum viable product.