Michelle Cosby serves as the Assistant Dean of Legal Information Services & Professor of Practice. In this role, she leads the Law Library in the support of research for law faculty and students. She also oversees the daily operations including strategic directions, personnel, budget, and administrative activities for the library. Prior to joining Washington and Lee in June 2022, Professor Cosby was the Director of the Law Library at Temple University, and Associate Director of the Law Library at the University of Tennessee.
Ms. Cosby also served as the President of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) from July 2019-July 2020, and is a Fastcase 50 Honoree.
Professor Cosby received her B.A. in Sociology from Butler University and earned a dual Juris Doctorate (JD) and Master of Library Sciences (MLS) from Indiana University-Bloomington. She is an admitted member of the Indiana Bar.
CALI Lessons
This table shows Lessons and podcasts by this author. It includes Lesson title, CALI Topics for the Lesson, the date the Lesson was published on the CALI website, the date the Lesson was last updated, and run/usage totals for the past 30 and 120 days.
Note: usage information for podcasts is not available here and is marked as N/A.
| Lesson Title | CALI Topic(s) | Published in | Latest update | Runs Past 30 Days | Runs Past 120 Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating Web Sites |
|
2009 | August 22, 2019 | ||
| Internet Legal Resources - Free Resources |
|
2009 | September 9, 2025 | ||
| Non Legal Resource: Online News Sources |
|
2009 | September 9, 2021 | ||
| Arizona Legal Research: Secondary Resources |
|
2009 | October 10, 2019 | ||
| Louisiana Legal Research: Secondary Resources |
|
2010 | July 20, 2019 | ||
| North Carolina Legal Research: Secondary Resources |
|
2012 | July 2, 2019 | ||
| Texas Legal Research: Secondary Resources |
|
2014 | November 11, 2019 |