Kathryn James

Kathryn James is a Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School, where she has served as the Rare Book Librarian in the Lillian Goldman Law Library since 2021. An archival historian, James was the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Darwin College. Prior to joining the Law School, James was the Curator of Early Modern British & European Collections at the Beinecke Library, where she worked from 2005. She is the author of English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 (Beinecke Library & Yale University Press, 2020).