Casandra Laskowski
Cas Laskowski is the Head of Research, Data & Instruction at the University of Arizona’s Law Library, where she works with faculty, staff, and students to build legal technology skills. Cas is an advocate for free or low-cost resources, a critical element for practitioners setting out on their own. Cas also has set up virtual library experiences for students, adapting the student orientation experience to the pandemic era. A modernizing law librarian, she co-edited and published the open access textbook Introduction to Law Librarianship, which has been included in Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf on HeinOnline. Cas is a founding fellow of the IDEA Institute on AI, an innovative, weeklong workshop to train the community of information science professionals. In addition to her past work as a Technology and Research Services librarian at Duke, she worked as a geospatial analyst in the U.S. Army, which included serving more than 15 months in Iraq. Her areas of interest and expertise include the ethical implications of artificial intelligence, privacy, censorship, A2J, and the intersection of national security and individual liberty.