About the Author

• Author: Sarah Lamdan
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About the Author

Sarah Lamdan is an Associate Professor and librar-

ian at the City University of New York School of

Law. She received her J.D. from the University of

Kansas School of Law with a Certicate in Envi-

ronmental and Natura l Resources Law, a master’s

degree in Legal Information Management from

Emporia State University’s Graduate School of

Library and Information Management, and a B.A.

in English from the University of Kansas. Sarah

specializes in government information access

and transparency with a focus on environmental

agency records, and she teaches legal research,

advanced legal research, and lawyering skills courses. She previously served as

research specialist for several international law rms and at Bloomberg Law.

Her writing on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), information access,

and environmental justice issues have been published in the Kansas Journal

of Law & Public Policy, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Government

Information Quarterly, and other lega l and information science publications.

Sarah a lso facilitates FOIA workshops and seminars on participating in the

federal and New York administrative rulema king process.

About the Editor

Taryn L. Rucinski is a Branch Librarian for the

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for

the Southern District of New York Libraries and

the former Environmental Law Librarian for the

Pace University School of Law. She graduated cum

laude with her J.D. and certicate in environmen-

tal law from Pace in 2010, received her M.L.I.S.

with a concentration in law librarianship from St.

John’s University in 2012, and her B.A. cum laude

in history from e College of New Jersey in 1999.

A former Editor-in-Chief of the Pace Environmen-