Richard A. Danner (August 26, 1947 – February 22, 2018) was an American legal scholar, the Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law Emeritus at

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in Durham, North Carolina. He held the position of Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and served in various capacities at Duke, starting in 1979, and was appointed Director of the Duke University Law Library in 1981. Prior to working at Duke, Richard Danner served as a law librarian at the

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, where he received degrees in law and library science. Danner has served as the

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president, is a member of the

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, has served on the Executive Committee of the

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and as the First Vice President of the International Association of Law Libraries. Danner is co-author, with John Palfrey of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship of 2008, which advocates for the open access publishing of law journals. Danner has been an outspoken supporter of open access in law.

Publications

Richard Danner has published extensively on law librarianship, legal information, information technology and the law, and legal research. He has edited ''Toward a Renaissance in Law Librarianship'' (1997), ''Introduction to Foreign Legal Systems'' (with Marie- Louise Bernal) (1994), and ''Legal Information and the Development of American Law'' (with Frank G. Houdek) (2008). His books include ''Legal Research in Wisconsin'' (1980) and ''Strategic Planning: A Law Library Management Tool for the '90s and Beyond'' (1997 2nd edition). In addition to his books, Professor Danner has published in a number of journals including in The Journal of Legal Education, The Law Librarian, the Michigan Law Review, the International Journal of Legal Information, and Law Library Journal. He has also served as the Editor of Law Library Journal.

References

External links

Faculty page at Duke Law
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