Amber Kennedy Madole
USC Gould School of Law

Amber Madole serves as law librarian for research services and Indigenous law and policy and adjunct assistant professor of law at the USC Gould School of Law. In these roles, she teaches legal research courses and assists faculty and students with their legal research endeavors.

Madole earned her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University in immigration policy and regional studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service. While at Georgetown, she worked for U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman in both the D.C. and New Mexico offices and established a book sharing program between the Library of Congress and rural New Mexico libraries.

During law school at UCLA, Madole was the managing editor of the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance. She spent time at a midsize immigration law firm and clerked for the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Madole, who earned her MLIS degree from UCLA, is active in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL), having served on the executive board and chairing the Speakers Committee for the annual SCALL Institute.

Madole has a special dedication to the study of Indigenous law and policy issues. She is the author of California Tribal Law in Henke's California Law Guide. Her joint proposal promoting the inclusion of tribal codes in the Bluebook was sponsored by ALL-SIS, the academic special interest section for the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a citizen of the Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache Tribe and a member of the State Bar of California. 

Publications

• Artificial Intelligence: Law and Regulation (review), International Journal of Legal Information (forthcoming 2023).
• “California Tribal Law,” in Henke's California Law Guide. 9th ed. (Daniel Martin & Laura Cadra, eds.) Getzville, NY: William S. Hein & Co, Inc., 2023. 
• “Law Librarians for Indigenous-Inclusive Citation,” AALL Spectrum (January 2023): 34-35.  - (www)

Presentations

• “The Troubling Exclusion of Tribal Governments, Tribal Courts, and Indigenous Knowledges from the Bluebook.” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. July 19, 2022. 

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

LLM Guide
June 5, 2023
Re: USC Gould School of Law

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