Andrew Martineau

Andrew Martineau

  • Associate Law Librarian
  • Head of Access Services and Instructional Services
455L Mondale Hall

Professor Andrew Martineau is the Head of Access Services and Instructional Services. He leads the Law Library’s instructional program, which includes coordinating research instruction for first-year law students, teaching a practice-ready legal research course, and giving presentations on specialized legal research topics in upper-division seminars. Professor Martineau received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for skills and practical teaching in 2024. He also provides reference services to the Law School community.

Professor Martineau earned his B.A. degree in history from the University of Idaho, his J.D. from the DePaul University College of Law, and his M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington. Before coming to the Law School, he served as a law librarian and legal research instructor at the Wiener-Rogers Law Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Professor Martineau is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries. He served as President of the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries in 2022-2023.

Practice-Ready Legal Research


Legal Research and Writing


Legal Research & Writing Student Instructor


Senior Legal Research & Writing Instructor


Journal Articles

Reinforcing the Infrastructure of Legal Research Through Court-Authored Metadata, 112 Law Library Journal 5 (2020) (recipient of the 2019 AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Award) 
Imagined Consumers: How Judicial Assumptions about the American Consumer Impact Trademark Rights, for Better and for Worse, 22 DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law 337 (2012) (seminar article)

Book Chapters

Garbage In, Garbage Out: Improving Citators through Improved Citations, in The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium 667 (Michael G. Chiorazzi, ed., William S. Hein Co., 2022)

Book Reviews

Book Review, 27 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 317 (2023) (reviewing Amy E. Sloan, Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies (Wolters Kluwer, 8th ed., 2021)

Other Publications

ChatGPT in the Legal Research Classroom: Tips from the Trenches, 28 AALL Spectrum 32 (Nov./Dec. 2023)
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Comfort, Functionality, and Popcorn: How UNLV’s Law Library Remodel is Improving the Law Student Experience, 19 AALL Spectrum 31 (May 2015)
Instructional Services Librarian
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