Nicholas Mignanelli

Nicholas Mignanelli is a Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School, the Assistant Director for Reference at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, and a Fellow at Ezra Stiles College. He teaches a variety of general and specialized legal research courses. A legal bibliographer, his work uses critical legal theory to examine legal information structures and practices with focuses on emerging legal technologies and American law book history. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in Law Library Journal, The Library Quarterly, Journal of Legal Education, Georgetown Law Technology Review, Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés, and Boston University Law Review Online, among other journals. In 2021, he was named to the Fastcase 50, an annual awards program that honors “the smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” He has twice won the American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers: New Members Division. He is a past editorial board member of Law Library Journal and Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

Before coming to Yale, Mr. Mignanelli served as the Reference & Instructional Services Librarian and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He began his career as a Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library Fellow at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He holds an M.L.I.S. from the University of Arizona and a J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. A New Hampshire native, he graduated cum laude with a B.A. in political science and a minor in classics from the University of New Hampshire, where he was awarded the Malcolm & Virginia Smith Endowed Prize. He is admitted to the bars of New Hampshire, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and the United States Supreme Court.