Amy Spare
Faculty Services Librarian
Legal Research Instructor
Office: Law Library Rm 161
Phone: 610-519-7188
Fax: 610-519-7033
Email: spare@law.villanova.edu
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Contact Amy with Questions About: - Faculty research support: projects, alerts, library RA pool, book requests, Falvey Library
- Faculty teaching support: guest lectures, course materials permissions
- Research Assistant training and questions
- Research and reference questions
Areas of Special Interest:- Administrative Law
- Copyright & Trademark Law
- Government Documents
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Amy coordinates library services to faculty and teaches legal research in the first-year curriculum and beyond. In addition to Intro to Legal Research, she guest lectures in upper-level classes on a variety of topics including administrative decisions, regulations, trademark and copyright, government documents, and fact finding. Before coming to Villanova Law in 2005, Amy provided research services in a major law firm in Houston, Texas and headed the Government Publications Department at Rice University, a patent and trademark depository library. As a practicing attorney, she worked for the Alaska Public Defender’s Offices in Bethel and Anchorage and for Central Pennsylvania Legal Services. Amy holds a JD from Northeastern University College of Law and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin.
