Head of Research & Reference Services and Lecturer in Law

Jean Callihan joined the Law Library in 2001. She graduated from Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law and worked as an attorney in Pennsylvania for 15 years before obtaining a Master of Science in Library Science. Before coming to Cornell, Ms. Callihan provided reference service and legal research instruction at Widener University School of Law (Harrisburg, PA campus) and Marquette University Law Library. She team teaches Advanced Legal Research and Lawyering, and has developed and taught one credit advanced legal research courses in Criminal Law, Environmental Law, and Business Law. She has written and presented CLE material for National Business Institute and has published in the Cornell Law Review, Law Library Journal, and International Journal of Legal Information. Ms. Callihan is active in professional law library organizations at both the state and national levels.