Kristina Niedringhaus, associate dean for library and information services and associate professor of law, has written and presented on topics including legal research, teaching methods and law library management. She joins the College of Law from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, where she was director of the law library and associate professor.

Her publications include “Ethics Considerations Related to Legal Research Practices: A selective Annotated Bibliography,” in Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2012); “Teaching Better Research Skills by Teaching Metacognitive Ability,” in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (2010); and “Georgia Pre-Statehood Legal Research” in the book “Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide Including New York City and the District of Columbia” (2006). She also co-wrote several interactive Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) lessons on legal research.

Niedringhaus is on the board of directors of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI); vice chair/chair-elect of the Society of Academic Law Library Directors and has served as chair of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Throughout her career, Niedringhaus has taught first-year legal research and Advanced Legal Research. She previously served as associate librarian at Georgia State Law in the early 2000s.

Michelle Hook Dewey is the Legal Technologies Librarian in the Law Library, where she provides reference and legal research instruction to the Georgia State College of Law community. In addition, she is a member of the Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative where she teaches and supports the programs and projects associated with the LAII certificate program.

Prior to joining the Georgia State University College of Law in 2022, Michelle Hook Dewey worked in a variety of legal practice and legal education settings. Most notably Dewey spent five years as the Legal Research Services Manager for an Am. Law 100 firm, where she managed the firm’s national research team. In conjunction with the firm’s innovation group, Dewey and her research team served as the content matter experts on a host of firm-led data management, data integration, and technology projects. Throughout her career she has focused her scholarship and teaching on online legal instruction, hybrid law classes. legal practice technology, and innovation.

Michelle Hook Dewey received her Master of Library & Information Science degree from the University of Illinois. She has a J.D. and an LL.M. in health law and policy from Southern Illinois University.