Full Name
Kim Nayyer
Institution/Organization
Cornell Law School
Speaker Bio
Kim is Edward Cornell Law Librarian, Associate Dean for Library Services, and Professor of the Practice at Cornell Law School. Her research interests include information and algorithmic literacy in machine manipulated environments; data appropriation in online public participation; ethics of big data and AI; copyright and licensing as they affect access to information; and inclusion, diversity, equity, and decolonization in information and law. Kim teaches a critical legal information colloquium and a comparative copyright law seminar at Cornell Law School. Previously, she was Associate University Librarian, Law and Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Before entering librarianship Kim worked as a research lawyer in private practice and at an appellate court. Kim has an extensive professional service record; notable service includes the Copyright Society’s DEI committee; the American Association of Libraries’ Copyright Committee and AALL Spectrum editorial board; the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit, for which she served a presidential term, founded and co-chaired the Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Committee, co-chaired the Copyright Committee, and led three Supreme Court of Canada interventions on copyright and legal information and library issues; and sections of the Association of American Law Schools and the Canadian Bar Association. Kim is a member of the Bars of Alberta and Ontario.
Kim Nayyer