Nicholas Mignanelli, J.D., MLIS

About

Nicholas Mignanelli, J.D., MLIS, is an associate professor of law and director of the Mabee Legal Information Center. He is the incoming editor of Law Library Journal. His research uses critical frameworks to examine legal information structures and practices. He writes about emerging legal technologies and American law book history. He is the editor, with Femi Cadmus, of “New Perspectives on the Legal Treatise,” published by William S. Hein & Co. in 2025.

Mignanelli comes to The University of Tulsa from Yale University, where he served as a lecturer at Yale Law School, an assistant director at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, and a fellow at Ezra Stiles College. At Yale, he organized the Critical Legal AI Literacies Speaker Series and the Legal Information & Book History Workshop Series, chaired the Second Yale Legal Information Symposium, and reviewed book proposals for the Yale University Press. He has also held appointments at the University of Miami School of Law and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

Mignanelli 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. A bibliographer and bibliophile, he has pursued training in book history and descriptive bibliography through the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is an elected member of the Grolier Club of New York.

Awards and honors

• Yale Fund for Lesbian & Gay Studies Research Award, 2024
• Fastcase 50, 2021
• Gherardi Davis Prize for a Significant Contribution to Vexillological Research, 2021
• American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers: New Members Division, 2020
• American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers: New Members Division, 2019