Amy M. Taylor
Reference Librarian and Lecturing Fellow
Amy Taylor joined the Duke Law Library in May 2008. She received a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from The Catholic University of America in 2006, her J.D. from the University of Alabama in 2005, and a B.A. in religious studies from Rhodes College in 1995. Prior to joining Duke, Ms. Taylor was a reference librarian at Georgetown University and a library intern at the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ms. Taylor co-teaches a section of Legal Analysis, Research and Writing and coordinates the library's Empirical Legal Research Program. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Special Libraries Association, the American Bar Association, and the Alabama State Bar. She is coordinating a workshop on Empirical Legal Research at the 2009 AALL Annual Conference for the second year in a row. She has authored articles on Empirical Legal Research for Legal Information Alert and the AALL Academic Law Librarians' newsletter. Her research interests include empirical legal studies, criminal law, specifically sentencing policy and capital punishment, and legal history.