American Association of Law Libraries Honors Ellie Campbell for Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research

Ellie Campbell, clinical associate professor of law and reference librarian for the Katherine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received the Paul Ganz Publication Award from the American Association of Law Libraries. She was honored for her article, “Critical Legal Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Systemic Racism: Teaching with Jim Crow Text-Mining,” which discusses a UNC initiative to use AI to identify racially based laws passed in North Carolina between 1865 and 1967.

In her current role, Professor Campbell teaches courses on advanced legal research and focuses her reference work on faculty and student services. Her academic interests include critical legal research, research instruction, law and science fiction, and southern legal history. Before she came to the UNC Chapel Hill, she served the University of Mississippi as the public services law librarian, an instructor in first-year legal research, and manager of the library’s circulation department.

Professor Campbell completed her undergraduate degree in theatre at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a master’s degree in southern studies and a master of fine arts degree in documentary expression from the University of Mississippi. She also holds a master’s degree in American studies from King’s College London, as well as a master of library and information science degree and juris doctorate from the University of Alabama.