Sarah C. Slinger

Sarah C. Slinger will join the University of Georgia School of Law Alexander Campbell King Law Library in the summer of 2024 as the associate director for research services. In this position, she will be the primary liaison between the law library and the law school's faculty. She will also supervise the library's Research Assistant Program and teach 1L Legal Research, Advanced Legal Research, Administrative Law Research and Environmental Law Research.

Slinger comes to UGA after serving as the head of instructional services law librarian & adjunct professor of law at the Florida International University Law Library for three years. She was previously the reference and instructional services librarian and a librarian assistant professor at the University of Miami Law Library from 2018 to 2021 and was a reference librarian at the University of Michigan Law Library. While earning her master’s and law degrees, Slinger held a library fellowship, providing reference services and instruction, in the Cracchiolo Law Library at The University of Arizona. She also served as a law library extern at the Delaware Law School.

She is active in the American Association of Law Libraries and the Southeastern American Association of Law Libraries. She is also a member of the bars of Pennsylvania (active) and D.C. (inactive). In addition to serving on the editorial board of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, she is herself an active scholar, publishing articles in the Law Library Journal, the University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review and the Journal of Legal Policy & Pandemics as well as co-authoring the book chapter "A Voice in the Development of Amazonia: The Constitutional Rights to Participation of Indigenous Peoples" in Indigenous Amazonia: Regional Politics & Territorial Dynamics (Leal Filho ed.). Her scholarship has won AALL’s Call for Papers Award and the Gherardi Davis Prize for Vexillological Research.

Slinger earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Saint Joseph’s University, her J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School and her M.L.I.S. from The University of Arizona. Additionally, Slinger holds a Graduate Certificate in Law Librarianship from Arizona and a Hybrid Teaching Certification from Florida International University Online. Slinger also has a working proficiency in Spanish.