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Biography

Dana Neacsu is the Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Legal Research Skills. She comes to the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Â鶹ֱ²¥ from Columbia Law School where she held various positions in its library, and taught legal research as a lecturer in law, and from Barnard College where she taught environmental law, policy and research as an adjunct professor. Before joining Columbia University, Dana was a NYC attorney, a civil law assistant professor with Bucuresti University School of Law, an environmental law researcher with the Romanian Academy, National Institute of Legal Research, and a Romanian trial court judge.

Dana has an LL.B. from Bucharest School of Law, a D.E.A from Caen-France, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, an M.L.S. from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the impact of fake news on our democracy - "."

Education

  • LL.M., Harvard Law School
  • Ph.D., School of Communication and Information, The State University of New Jersey
  • M.L.S., CUNY, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
  • D.E.A., Ecole de Droit et des Etudes Politiques
  • LL.B., Universitatea Bucuresti, Facultatea de Drept

 

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Departments, Centers, and Offices

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  • SP23: Climate Change Law, Research and Writing
  • Introduction to U.S. Law and Legal Research, Writing, & Analysis (2 cr with Charles Sprowls)
  • Directed Research: LLM (2 cr)
  • Pre Law Legal Research & Writing (3 cr with Charles Sprowls)
  • Climate Change Law, Research and Writing (2 cr)
  • - November 3, 2022
  • International Conference of Information, Medium, and Society. "" July 10, 2021 (with Paul Callister) (via Zoom)
  • Conferinta Internationala Gheorghe Beleiu, "a" (2nd ed, Bucuresti, May 20-21, 2021) (via Zoom)
  • "Teaching Students. Teaching with Students. Creating Opportunities to Change the World." (grant presentation; student work: https://barnardsabin.org/ ) CUNY Conference on Climate Change Education (C4E) April 21-22, 2021
  • "" Interviewed by Carmelia Raghinaru (June 5, 2020)
  • Telos - Paul Piccione Institute & the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, 2020 Conference:
    Models of Mutual Aid.
  • 110th AALL Annual Meeting and Conference, Austin, TX. "Social Justice in Law Libraries: #lawlibraries respond to real life crises" () (July 2017)
  • Global Legal Skills Conference XII, Monterey, Mexico. ""  (March 2017)
  •  (September 2016)
  • Applying Bentham's Theory of Fallacies to Chief Justice Robert's Reasoning in West Virginia v. EPA 61 Duquesne Law Review (2023) ()
  • Katharina Pistor, CODUL CAPITALULUI: CUM DREPTUL CREEAZÄ‚ BOGÄ‚ÈšIE ȘI INEGALITATE (Dana NeacÅŸu, trans., Radu Rizoiu, postface) (, 2022) 
  • . 60 Duquesne Law Review 246 (2022)
  • (with Paul D. Callister) . 113 Law Library Journal 241 (2021)
  • . 25 Human Rights Brief (American University Washington College of Law) 28 (2021)
  • . Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2021)
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  • The Bourgeois Charm of Marx's Writings and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence (Brill, 2020).
  • Introduction to US Law, Policy & Research. An Environmental Perspective (Vandeplas Publishing, 2019). Co-author: P. Bower.
  • Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography (Dana NeacÅŸu & David B. Holt, eds.-in-chief, Hein, 2018).
Legal meaning-making and the role of technology, irony, and ideology in actuating the existing power structures
Legal education
The use of technology in legal research
The role of aesthetic ideology in creating environmental activism