Biography Marci Hoffman Lecturer in Residence; Associate Director, Law Library; International & Foreign Law Librarian University of California, Berkeley School of Law Library
Marci Hoffman is a Lecturer in Residence; Associate Director of the Law Library; and the International & Foreign Law Librarian at the UC Berkeley Law Library (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/). Most recently, Marci was the International and Foreign Law Librarian at the E.B. Williams Law Library at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. (http://www.ll.georgetown.edu). Prior to working at Georgetown, Marci was the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota Law School from April, 1993- April, 1999. (http://www.law.umn.edu). Marci came to Minnesota from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) Law Library where she was an Assistant Librarian and the Coordinator of Boalt Express, the library‘s document delivery service. Marci was also a librarian at Farella, Braun & Martel in San Francisco, CA. She earned her B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis and her M.L.I.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to coordinating and providing international research and reference services at UC Berkeley Law Library, Marci teaches foreign and international legal research and is the liaison to the international journals, programs, and clinics. She is also responsible for selection and collection development for the foreign, comparative and international collections.
Marci has written many articles and lectured on researching international and foreign law. Marci and Professor David Weissbrodt at the University of Minnesota Law School are also responsible for creating and designing the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library (http://www.umn.edu/humanrts). Marci continues to serve as the co-director of project with Prof. Weissbrodt. Marci is also involved in other web projects with the American Society of International Law and other organizations. She was one of the Project Managers for the ASIL sponsored Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) (http://www.eisil.org).
Marci is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the International Association of Law Libraries, and the American Society of International Law.
