Scholarly Services and Research Support

Contact

Mike Vanderheijden
michael.vanderheijden@yale.edu
203.432.9616

General Services

Faculty Liaisons: We match you with a librarian based on your scholarly interests to provide in-depth, one-on-one research support and assistance throughout your projects. Current faculty liaison assignments can be viewed here.
 
Clinic Liaisons: We liaise with clinical faculty to provide research support and assistance to student legal teams. 

Research Services: We provide custom research support, compile bibliographies, and connect you with domestic, foreign, and international sources.
 
Empirical Research: Please connect with our Empirical Research and Data Services department for support.
 
Research Instruction and Guest Lectures: We train RAs and Faculty Assistants to support your work. We deliver legal research lectures tailored to your class or clinic. Please contact your liaison to discuss a guest lecture or research instruction for your course.

Specific Services

Scholastica Manuscript Submission Service:

Scholastica is a law review submission service by which scholars may manage and track paper submissions to multiple journals. Yale Law School students and permanent faculty may be reimbursed by the Library for the costs of Scholastica submissions, with the following limitations: Reimbursement for lecturers, Ph.D., J.S.D., and LLM. students is limited to a maximum of 60 submissions per article. Reimbursement for J.D. students is limited to a maximum of 30 submissions per article.

The procedure for reimbursement is that you must create your own Scholastica account, pay the submission costs yourself, then contact Mike VanderHeijden, Associate Director for Scholarly and Research Services. He will arrange for reimbursement.

Yale Law School professors should contact Mike VanderHeijden to get access to our faculty Scholastica account.

Washington & Lee’s Submissions & Rankings database can be a useful resource in a targeted submission strategy.