Foreign & International Law Librarian
Katherine Topulos is the Foreign & International Law Librarian at Duke Law School. She is also responsible for the rare book collection. She teaches foreign and international legal research,
and legal research in the first year legal analysis, research and writing course and to the international LLM students. Before coming to Duke she practiced law in a small firm in Massachusetts.
Ms. Topulos received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College, where she majored in French, her master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Library Service, and her law degree from Boston College Law School. She is active in various professional organizations, including the American Association of Law Libraries and the International Association of Law Libraries. Her interests include English legal history. She has written and spoken on international law research and English legal history research. Her publications include Perspective on Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research: How to Get Started Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research, 19 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 61 (2001) and A Common Lawyer’s Bookshelf Recreated: An Annotated Bibliography of a Collection of Sixteenth Century English Law Books, 84 Law Library Journal 641 (1992).