Cas Laskowski

Casandra (Cas) Laskowski  (re-)joined the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at the University of Arizona on March 1, 2021 coming from the Goodson Law Library at Duke University School of Law where she has been the Technology and Research Services Librarian and Lecturing Fellow since December 2016.  Her areas of interest and expertise include ethical implications of artificial intelligence, privacy, censorship, A2J, and the intersection of national security and individual liberty.

She was a founding fellow of the inaugural Fellow in the University of Tennessee Library’s 2021 IDEA Institute on Artificial Intelligence, and the only librarian of any type to be selected for the 2022 Summer Conference on Applied Data Science, at North Carolina State University, where she leveraged machine learning summarization methods to design a prototype system that would aid intelligence analysts in efficiently identifying relevant audio files. She currently co-leads the UA Making AI Generative for Higher Education project team, a two-year cross-institution partnership with Ithaka S+R, and serves on the Arizona Steering Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts A2J Wroking Group. She teaches AI & Big Data in Law Practice at the College of Law and regularly presents on Artificial Intelligence implications on law practice and law librarianship.

Cas is currently pursuing a PhD in Information with a focus on legal informatics infrastructures. She received her Master’s in Library Science here and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2015.  Prior to pursuing her career as a law librarian, Cas worked as a geospatial analyst in the United States Army and served a fifteen-month tour of duty in Iraq. She is a an IBM and IDEO trained design thinking facilitator, and has facilitated workshops addressing human trafficking, medical debt, student wellness, and open access to the law.

Cas is active in the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the Southwestern Assn of Law Libraries (SWALL), and the Southeast Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL). She has served in a variety of leadership positions such as President of the SWALL, Treasurer of the SEAAL, Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion standing committee of AALL, and Chair of the Latino Caucus of AALL.