Femi Cadmus is the Law Librarian and Professor of Law at Yale Law School. With a career in law libraries that spans over three decades, she brings extensive experience from both academic and law firm environments. Most recently, Cadmus was the Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Distinguished Research Professor of Law, associate dean, and director of the J. Michael Goodson Law Library at Duke Law School. Prior to that, she was the Edward Cornell Law Librarian, associate dean for library services, and professor of the practice at Cornell University. Cadmus was associate law librarian for administration at the Lillian Goldman Law Library from 2008 to 2011 before which she held leadership positions at George Mason University Scalia Law School Library.
Actively engaged in the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the premier professional association for law librarians, Cadmus served as AALL president from 2018 to 2019. She also participates on several legal information advisory boards and is a founding member of Law Archive (a global open access legal scholarship repository) and the Global Online Access to Legal Information (GOALI) program, which provides free or reduced-cost access to legal information in the Global South as part of the Research4Life initiative. In addition, she serves on the board of the Yale Law Journal Company and the Yale Law Journal Fund.
Cadmus’ research interests, publications, and presentations focus on law and technology, open access to legal information, the evolving role of the modern-day law library, and law library administration. She is co-editor of "New Perspectives on the Legal Treatise," published by William S. Hein & Company (forthcoming 2025). Cadmus was born in New York City and grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. With a globally informed perspective, she has consulted for academic and court libraries in the United States and internationally. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Nigeria (inactive).
