Biography
Davidson previously was the associate director of the Law Library and an associate professor of library administration at the University of Illinois College of Law. There for 17 years, she taught first-year legal research for JD students and legal research and writing for LLM and JSD students. She also taught law librarianship and legal research in the iSchool, formerly known as the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Illinois.
Davidson worked at Yale Law School from 2000-2005, where she was co-principal investigator for two National Science Foundation grants to digitize and make U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs available.
Davidson’s scholarship focuses on user needs in the hybrid print/electronic environment, research paths to interdisciplinary scholarship in law and library support for faculty scholarship. She earned her JD from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s in library science from Indiana University.