Mike McArthur joined the Goodson Law Library in September 2017. He received his J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law, an M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington, and holds a BA in Japanese from Brigham Young University. Prior to arriving at Duke, he worked as a Reference Librarian at the University of Michigan Law Library for several years.
Mike teaches courses in Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research Methods, AI and Legal Research, and co-teaches sections of the first-year JD and LLM legal research and writing course. He also presents on topics related to publishing in U.S. Law Reviews, Legal Citation Standards, and introductory topics related to U.S. Legal Research.
He is a member of the Washington State Bar and actively participates in the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), American Society of International Law (ASIL), and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Mike is a past chair of AALL’s FCIL Special Interest Section, currently serves as chair of the ASIL Jus Gentium Award Committee, and is a member of the NELLCO Resource Review Team.
