Chair, Academic Committee

Virginia Wise is Chair of the Burton Awards Academic Board and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Ms. Wise teaches courses in advanced legal research, international, foreign and comparative legal research, and legal research for foreign LL.M. students. Ms. Wise previously taught at the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, Boston University Law School, Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and as a visiting professor at the University of Washington. She has been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, a consultant on legal information and legal education for the U.S. government in Estonia, Mongolia and South Africa, and a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam. She is the co-author of “Bundling, Boundary Setting, and the Privatization of Legal Information” in Market-Based Governance (John Donahue & Joseph Nye eds., Brookings Institute, 2002).