Sarah Reis
Foreign & International Law Librarian
Associate Director for Public Services
Biography
Sarah Reis is the Associate Director for Public Services and the Foreign & International Law Librarian at the Pritzker Legal Research Center. Sarah teaches a Foreign, Comparative & International Legal Research course for JD and LLM students and a Research in Law, Business & Technology course for the MSL program. Sarah received her J.D. from Northwestern Law and served as a managing editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. She obtained her Master of Library & Information Science from the University of Washington. Sarah writes about copyright law issues and is a regular columnist for the Canadian Law Library Review to provide updates relating to U.S. law and libraries. Prior to joining the Pritzker Legal Research Center in 2018, Sarah worked as a reference librarian at Stanford Law School. She is a member of the Illinois bar as well as the American Association of Law Libraries, International Association of Law Libraries, and Chicago Association of Law Libraries.
Areas of Expertise
- Legal Research
Courses
Selected Publications
- Toward a “Digital Transfer Doctrine”? The First Sale Doctrine in the Digital Era, 109 Northwestern University Law Review 173 (2015).
- A Closer Look at the European Union Copyright Directive, AALL Spectrum 35 (Nov./Dec. 2019).
- Animal Welfare Legal Research in Australia and New Zealand, in Global Animal Law Research: Strategies and Resources, edited by Alex Zhang & Katherine Siler (2022).
- “Are You a Member of the Law School Community?”: Access Policies at Academic Law Libraries and Access to Justice, 109 Law Library Journal 269 (2017).
Education
- BA, University of Wisconsin
- JD, Northwestern University School of Law
- MLIS, University of Washington
Prior Appointments
- Director of ITP, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law