Rebecca Fordon

Rebecca Fordon is Assistant Director for Innovation, Research, and Instruction in the Moritz Law Library. In her role, she leads the strategic delivery of the library’s reference and research services, as well as the strategic evolution of the library’s instructional program to ensure it meets the evolving practice, technological, and licensure needs of students.   

Professor Fordon teaches and speaks about legal research and legal tech, including generative AI. At Moritz, she developed and teaches a legal tech course called 21st Century Lawyering and is a member of the AI@Moritz faculty committee. Additionally, Fordon is a board member of the Free Law Project and one of the creators of AILawLibrarians.com. 

Previously, Professor Fordon was Faculty Services Librarian at UCLA School of Law’s Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, where she also taught Advanced Legal Research. And prior to joining law librarianship, she was a partner at Brown Rudnick LLP in Boston where she counseled clients in bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation. While in Boston, she clerked at the Massachusetts Court of Appeals for the Honorable Andrew R. Grainger.

Professor Fordon received her BA magna cum laude in Zoology and Humanities from Ohio Wesleyan University. She also earned her JD magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law, and her MLIS from UCLA. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries.