Amber Madole serves as Law Librarian for Research Services and Indigenous Law and Policy and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law. In these roles, she teaches legal research courses and assists faculty and students with their legal research endeavors.

At USC Law, Madole serves as Faculty Advisor to Native American Law and Law Students Association (NALLSA), studies issues of tribal law, and coordinates lectures on Indigenous Law and Policy with the Center for Law, History, and Culture (CHLC).

Madole, who earned her law and MLIS degrees from UCLA, is active in several national organizations, including AALL’s Native Peoples Law Caucus and AALL’s RIPS-SIS Nominations Committee.

She is a member of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) where she has served on the executive board and chaired the Speakers Committee for the annual SCALL Institute. She is currently the chair of SCALL’s Grants Committee.

Madole earned her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University in immigration policy and regional studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service. At UCLA Law, Madole served as an editor of the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance.

Madole has a special dedication to the study of Indigenous law and policy issues. She is the author of California Tribal Law in Henke’s California Law Guide. Her joint proposal promoting the inclusion of tribal codes in the Bluebook has been adopted and is currently in the drafting stages. She is a citizen of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe and a member of the State Bar of California.

Rebecca Chapman is a Senior Assistant Law Librarian with the Charles B. Sears Law Library at the University at Buffalo School of Law, SUNY.  In addition to this work, Chapman serves as the Outreach Liaison to the Undergraduate Legal Education program, and the Outreach Liaison to the new Department of Indigenous Studies. 

Before coming to the University at Buffalo School of Law, Chapman practiced as an attorney in Indian Law for over sixteen years.  Her practice focused on Native Rights, Land claims, Gaming and Employment law, Sovereignty, and numerous other issues in Indian Country.  She practiced within Indian Country inside areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Oklahoma, California, and New York. In addition, she worked for the National Indian Gaming Commission in Washington, D.C. for over three years. 

Her areas of scholarship include discussions on Seneca land disputes, gaming and sovereignty in Indian Country, and more.

Caroline Osborne joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2024 and serves as the Director of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library and Associate Professor of Law. Her teaching and research interests include copyright, cultural property law, scholarly impact, and legal research pedagogy. Ms. Osborne is a prolific author. Her work has appeared in the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, the SMU Science & Technology Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal Online, Law Library Journal, and Legal Research Services Quarterly. Her 2023 book, Sources and Strategies of Legal Research won the 2024 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award and the American Association of Law Libraries Academic Special Interests Section Book Award. She is the 2015 and 2020 winner of the American Association of Law Libraries Academic Special Interest Section Outstanding Article Award and the 2023 recipient of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship. In 2024 she was honored to receive the Service to SEAALL award for sustained service to the chapter. Ms. Osborne attended Richmond Law School, where she was a member of the McNeill Law Honor Society and the Law Review. She also holds an LL.M. from Emory Law and her B.A. and M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina. She is the prior Director and Professor of Law at West Virginia College of Law and a prior Associate Dean of Legal Information Services at the Washington & Lee University School of Law. Ms. Osborne practiced law in North Carolina, Georgia, and New York focusing on leverage finance and commercial real estate. She is an active member of the North Carolina bar.

Rebecca Plevel (Muscogee Creek) is a Reference Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Sturm School of Law, Westminster Law Library. Previously, she was a Reference Librarian with the University of South Carolina Rice School of Law Library, where she was also a legal research instructor in the 1L Legal Research Analysis and Writing program. She began her library career as a Library Fellow with the University of Arizona Law Library. Rebecca has her MLIS, JD, and BA degrees from the University of Arizona. 

Rebecca’s scholarship interests include Indian and Tribal law, access to justice, access to information, and legal research pedagogy.