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Caroline Osborne (she/her/hers)

Associate Dean of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library and Associate Professor of Law
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Caroline L. Osborne is the incoming Associate Dean of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the former Director of the George R. Farmer, Jr. Law Library at West Virginia University School of Law and Professor of Law. She oversees various facets of library management, including curricular support, teaching, and administration. Her expertise spans legal research methodologies, copyright law, and cultural property.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Osborne was the Assistant Dean of Legal Information and Professor of Legal Research at the Washington & Lee University School of Law and a law librarian at the University of Richmond She is actively engaged in professional associations, serving in leadership capacities in national, regional, and international library associations and legal organizations such as the Southeastern Association of Law Schools and The Order of the Coif.

Ms. Osborne has an active research agenda reflecting interests in information management and access, scholarly impact metrics, research pedagogy, and copyright. Current works in progress explore issues cultural memory organizations face balancing practical realities with the opposing forces of censorship and preservation and how role and gender may impact scholarly impact. Her most recent work explores the United States Supreme Court decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith. Her notable achievements include receiving the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship in 2023 and the American Association of Law Libraries Special Interest Section Outstanding Article Award twice, in 2020 and 2015.

Ms. Osborne holds a J.D. from the University of Richmond where she was a member of the University of Richmond Law Review and McNeill Law Honor Society, an L.L.M. in Taxation from Emory University School of Law and an M.S.L.S. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Osborne previously practiced law in North Carolina, Georgia and New York.

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