Rachel Gordon

Rachel Gordon is the Deputy Director and Associate Director of Library Services at the Lillian Goldman Law Library and a Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School. She oversees the Law Library’s Administrative Office, technology, Access Services, and library events and programs. 

Ms. Gordon has a J.D. from the University of Tennessee, an M.B.A. from Mercer University, an M.L.S. from Drexel University, and B.A.s in International Studies and Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University. She is licensed to practice law in Ohio.

Prior to joining the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Ms. Gordon was the Associate Director for Public Services at the Duke Law Library and worked for a major legal publisher on the team that reviewed Artificial Intelligence outputs. She has more than twenty years’ experience teaching legal research and her writing has been published in monographs, Tennessee Law Review, Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Public Services Quarterly, and AALL Spectrum. 

Her areas of expertise include docket research, legal citators, copyright law, business and corporate legal research, and civil procedure.