Steven A Mitchell is a research librarian for legal history and foreign & comparative law in the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, where he provides legal support and develops the Library's foreign and international collection. He earned his B.A. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania; his J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of the Journal of Law & Liberty; and his M.S. in library and information science from Pratt Institute. Prior to coming to Yale, he was research, instruction, and rare books librarian at Notre Dame Law School.
He has studied and supported a range of academic disciplines throughout his career and offers expertise in interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to legal research. His interests include foreign and comparative law; legal history; law, literature, and satire; popular communication of law; the history and linguistics of legal information; and the mutual influence between law and religion in the medieval and early modern periods.
