FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CARISSA VOGEL TO JOIN CARDOZO LAW AS ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR LIBRARY SERVICES
Lynn Wishart to Receive Leadership Award, Steps Down After Over 30 Years of Service
May 14, 2015 – New York, NY – Dean Matthew Diller has announced that Carissa Vogel will become Associate Dean for Library Services; Professor of Legal Research; and Director, Law Library, taking over for Dean Lynn Wishart, who is retiring after 32 years of service to Cardozo Law.
Vogel has extensive experience in library services, most recently as Assistant Director for Research and Instruction and Lecturer in Law at Cornell University.
“I am delighted that Carissa will be heading up the Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library,” said Dean Diller. “She has impressive experience in the field, and brings new and innovative plans for expanding Cardozo’s excellent library research services.”
At Cornell, Vogel fostered collaboration among librarians in their instructional activities, including a lawyering class for first-year students; created a multi-year plan for new research courses; and oversaw a new, comprehensive outreach plan for the library.
Prior to Cornell, Vogel served as Head of Public Services and Lecturer in Law for the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia University. She has also worked at the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington.
Vogel spent several years in practice before entering the academic law library field, including at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in San Francisco. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington, a J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and a B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley.
She has been published in several library publications and is an active member of AALL, the American Association of Law Librarians.
Dean Wishart announced that she will step down as Associate Dean, Library Services; Professor of Legal Research; and Director of the Law Library at the end of August. In recognition of her dedication to the school the Cardozo faculty will present Dean Wishart with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Award for Extraordinary Leadership at this year’s commencement in June. She has been recognized at three previous commencement ceremonies with the graduating student’s award for outstanding service to the school.
“We are grateful to Lynn for all her years of leadership that have been critical to the law school,” said Dean Diller. “She has played vital roles in educating students in research skills that are critical to legal practice, and supporting the legal scholarship that is so central to Cardozo. We all wish her well for the future.”
Dean Wishart received the Monrad G. Paulsen Award for Outstanding Achievement by the Cardozo faculty in 1990. In 1996, she received the West Excellence in Academic Law Librarianship Award. In 2012, she was a recipient of The Roy M. Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship award in recognition of her work outside of Cardozo on behalf of the homeless. Her scholarship focuses on library management and legal research. She serves on law school site evaluation teams for the American Bar Association and is active in local and national professional associations.
For more information contact:
John DeNatale
Assistant Dean of Communications
212.790.0237
DeNatale@yu.edu
Jacqueline Reeves
Director, Media Relations and Communications
212.790.0837
Reeves@yu.edu