Ben Keele

Professor Benjamin Keele is Minnesota Law's scholarly services librarian. His work primarily centers on promoting the scholarship of the Law School’s faculty to maximize its discoverability and scholarly impact. Professor Keele assists faculty with managing scholarly profiles, submitting working papers, and publishing the Law School’s SSRN Research Paper Series. He also manages the Law School's faculty publications database and the Law School’s Scholarship Repository. He also provides reference, research assistance, and instruction as a Law Library reference team member.

Professor Keele earned his B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his J.D. and M.L.S. from Indiana University Bloomington. While in law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies and helped make the journal open access for readers. Before joining the Law School, he worked at William & Mary Law School and Indiana University Indianapolis McKinney School of Law, most recently as associate director of the Law Library. The American Association of Law Libraries recognized him with an Emerging Leader Award (for librarians in the first ten years of their careers) in 2020. 

Professor Keele is the editor of Law Library Journal, a major scholarly journal for law librarians and legal information professionals. He has presented and published articles on copyright, scholarly communications, access restrictions on U.S. Supreme Court justices' papers, and the Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act.