Barbara H. Bean
Reference Librarian
Michigan State University College of Law
Barbara has been a reference librarian at the Michigan State University College of Law since 2004. In addition to providing reference services and research support to students and faculty, she teaches classroom and online courses in Advanced Legal Research. Prior to becoming a librarian, she was an attorney specializing in bank financing at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and O’Melveny and Myers, and served as American counsel to DeBrauw Blackstone Westbroek. She is a member of the New York and California bars.
Barbara earned her A.B. from Vassar College and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She received her M.S.I.S. from the State University of New York at Albany. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and has been active in the Academic Law Libraries and Foreign Comparative and International Law special interest sections. She is the author of the International Environmental Law and International Air, Space and Water categories of the Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL). She has also contributed research guides on Transboundary Freshwater Treaties and Other Resources and Researching the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations Notification Requirements to the Globalex database at the Hauser Global Law Program at the New York University School of Law.