Gretchen McCord is an attorney licensed by the State of Texas, specializing in privacy and copyright. Gretchen provides legal advising and training in the areas of copyright law, privacy law, licensing, and other legal issues associated with digital information and social media. Her practice focuses on assisting educational institutions and libraries, small and mid-sized businesses, and non-profit organizations as they transition into the digital world.
As Director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication at Duke University, Kevin Smith’s principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing. He holds a Masters of Library Science from Kent State University and has worked as an academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized libraries. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and he received a law degree from Capital University in 2005.
Michael Green, an Australian born and bred in Sydney, is the founder and director of JADE. JADE, is an Australian non-profit responsible for the inception of first-of-its-breed legal citator for common Australian law. An initiative which spans over 8 years, JADE hosts over 1.5 million citations, receives almost 4,000 sessions a day and services over 24,000 users in Australia alone. JADE reflects Michael’s enthusiasm and life-goal to create a crowd-sourced environment to promote open access to law.
Attendees driving to the symposium should park in the Elm Street Garage. It is located at 2000 Elm Street, with 4 entrances (on Elm Street, Main Street, Harwood Street, and Pearl Street). Parking tickets will be validated at the event.
Listed below are hotels within walking distance (nearest and working out) of the UNT Dallas College of Law. All these hotels offer lower government, AAA rates, or prepaid rates.
John Mayer has been the Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) since 1994. CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of US law schools that does work at the intersection of legal education, technology and access to justice.
In May 2014, Kevin S. Hawkins was appointed director of library publishing for the University of North Texas Libraries and since October 2014 serves as the first president of the board of directors of the Library Publishing Coalition. Previously he was director of publishing operations for Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan Library which includes the University of Michigan Press and other brands and services. Kevin has also worked as visiting metadata manager for the Digital Humanities Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish Academy.
Carol A. Watson is no stranger to the University of Georgia. She earned three of her four tertiary degrees at the university, including a J.D. from the School of Law. In 1987, Watson began her professional career at the university's law library. Twenty-three years later, she was named its director. Previously, she served as the associate director for information technology, supervised the law school's IT Team and provided legal reference services.
Professor Bintliff is Director of the Tarlton Law Library/Jamail Center for Legal Research and the Joseph C. Hutcheson Professor in Law. She came to the position in the fall of 2010, after serving as Director of the William A. Wise Law Library and Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Her research interests include studying the differences between print and electronic information retrieval and the ways in which these search methods yield divergent results. She was selected to present the prestigious 22nd Annual Austin Scott, Jr.
James M. Donovan joined the University of Kentucky College of Law as Director of the Law Library in December 2010. Dr. Donovan received his law degree from Loyola New Orleans School of Law. Additionally, he holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Tulane University, masters degrees in philosophy and library science from Louisiana State University, and a bachelors degree in Greek and Latin from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.He comes to UK Law from the University of Georgia School of Law where he was the Faculty and Access Services Librarian.
Caroline L. Osborne is the Assistant Dean of Legal Information Services and Professor of Legal Research at Washington and Lee University. She teaches Advanced Legal Research and is the director for the Burks Scholar Program for legal research and writing.
