Professor Mike VanderHeijden is the Director of the Zimmerman Law Library. He oversees the library’s operations, staffing, collections, and services to the law school community.
Before joining the faculty, Prof. VanderHeijden was the Associate Director for Scholarly and Research Services and Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library where he coordinated a comprehensive research support program for law school faculty and taught legal research courses on environmental law, corporate law, and judicial history.
In other previous positions, he served as Manager of Research Services at Crowell & Moring, LLP, and as an advocate for people with disabilities.
Professor VanderHeijden has written and presented on researching 19th Century federal regulations, access to legal information, and service improvement in law libraries. His research interests include historical administrative law, legal bibliography, and law library ethics.
While at Yale Law School, Professor VanderHeijden was a co-administrator of Law Archive, a free, online archive of working papers, preprints, and fully published papers focusing on legal scholarship, sponsored by Yale Law School in collaboration with the Center for Open Science.
He has also worked with Research4Life, to promote GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), a platform providing free or low-cost online access to legal research and training in the developing world.
Professor VanderHeijden has served in a variety of leadership positions in the Law Librarians of New England, including as President, and Chair of its Access to Justice and Membership Development committees. As a member of the Board, he led strategic planning efforts and bylaws revisions for the organization.