Richard L. Buckingham

Biography

Professor Buckingham has been Director of the Moakley Law Library since 2016, having first joined the library as a Legal Reference Librarian in 2002. He is active in law library organizations at the regional and national levels. He served as Treasurer of the Law Librarians of New England (LLNE) for six years and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the NELLCO Law Library Consortium since 2016, serving as its Treasurer since 2021. He is a member of the Future of Law Libraries steering committee and served on the ABA Legal Education Police Practices Consortium Law Librarians Working Group from 2020 to 2023.

Education

• BA, Framingham State College
• JD, Rutgers University, Newark
• MSLIS, Simmons College

Publications

Articles 

• Law Library Efforts Fueling Innovation, The Future Lawyer at 46 (2019) (with Liza Rosenof)
• Research Competition Awesomeness: Implementing Legal Research Competitions at Law Schools, AALL SPECTRUM, Dec. 2013, p. 17 (with Lisa Junghahn)
• An Empirical Study of Predispute Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Social Media Terms of Service Agreements, 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 643 (2012) (with Michael L. Rustad, Diane D'Angelo, and Katherine Durlacher)
• Thinking Like a Librarian: Tips for Better Legal Research, 12 T.M. COOLEY J. PRAC. & CLINICAL L. 1 (2009)
• Library Research Labs: A Hands-On Approach to Taking the First Step with Your Students to Reflect Good Practice in Legal Education, 14 PERSP.: TEACHING LEGAL RES. & WRITING 73 (2006) (with Samantha A. Moppett)

Other

• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries, Northeast Roundtable Report (2024)

Professional Activities

• NELLCO Board of Directors, 2016 – present
• LLNE Treasurer, 2013 - 2019