After 20 years of work in several distinguished capacities at Rutgers Law School, Dennis C. Prieto has been promoted to Librarian I (equivalent to Full Professor).
Dennis Prieto has served as a librarian and professor at the Rutgers School of Law since November 2005. He is an award-winning author, an internationally recognized expert in Law Student Information Literacy, and has been cited by the Federal District Courts as an authority on bilingual English-Spanish legal reference sources.
He has taught courses such as Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research, Introduction to Law Librarianship (through the Rutgers School of Communication and Information), and Administrative Legal Research. Highly active with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), he has served on AALL’s Copyrights Committee, Diversity Committee, Appointments Committee, and Bluebook Committee, and has also served as President of the New Jersey Law Librarians Association (NJLLA).
He has also worked closely with the National Council of Bar Examiners (NCBE), as well as serving on Site Evaluation Teams for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the American Bar Association (ABA).