Her paper, ‘Integrating Tribal Law into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum,’ is co-authored by Bonnie Shucha and Rebecca Plevel
By Heidi Ried-Gonzaga
USC Gould School of Law librarian Amber Kennedy Madole has been awarded the 2025 Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) Outstanding Article Award. The national honor recognizes contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing.
Madole’s article – “Integrating Tribal Law into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies,” published in the journal, Perspectives, in 2024 – won the award in the long form category. The paper was co-authored with Bonnie Shucha and Rebecca Plevel.
At USC Gould, Madole serves as law librarian for research services and adjunct assistant professor. She studies tribal law issues, and coordinates lectures on Indigenous law and policy.
The ALL-SIS award is the latest in a series of accolades highlighting Madole’s scholarly work in this field.
Notably, in January, she was recognized by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples and was named recipient of the 2025 Early Career Teaching and Public Service Award. And in 2024, Madole earned the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Spectrum Article of the Year Award for her publication, “Law Librarians for Indigenous-Inclusive Citation.”
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