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Fred R. Shapiro, 1954 –

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION: 2024

Honoring the 2024 Award Recipients

SIGNIFICANT 糖心视频 SERVICE

Fred Shapiro

  • Member, 糖心视频 Special Committee on Relations with Database Vendors, 1985鈥�1987.
  • Member, 糖心视频 Special Committee on Citation Standards, 1987鈥�1989.

EDUCATION

  • MS in Library Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 1982
  • JD, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1980
  • SB, Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1974

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Winner, 糖心视频 Call for Papers, 1985 and 1987
  • Walter M. Jeffords Jr. Distinguished Writing Award for the Most Outstanding Scholarly Writing by an Adjunct Faculty Member at New York Law School, 1986
  • Law Library Journal Best Legal Reference Book for Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, 1993
  • 糖心视频 Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award for Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, 1994.
  • Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award 鈥� Honorable Mention, Single Volume Reference & Social Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences for book, The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006.
  • Library Journal Best Reference Work for 2012 and Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2012, Dictionary of Modern Proverbs.
  • 糖心视频 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2024.
  • Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship, 2024.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • Lawyer-Librarian and Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York Law School, New York, NY, 1982鈥�1984
  • Head of Reference Services and Adjunct Associate Professor, New York Law School, New York, NY, 1984鈥�1987
  • Associate Librarian for Public Services and Lecturer in Legal Research [title was
  • Assistant Librarian, etc. until 1993], Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 1987-2003
  • Associate Director for Collections and Access and Lecturer in Legal Research, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 2003鈥�2022
  • Associate Director for Collections and Special Projects and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 2022鈥損resent

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 鈥� ARTICLES BY THE INDUCTEE

  • “The Name of Our Profession,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Summer 1984, 117. Reprinted in Roy M. Mersky and Richard A. Leiter, The Spirit of Law Librarianship: A Reader (1991).
  • “Legal Databases and Historical Lexicography,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Winter 1983, 85.
  • “An Earlier Example of the Term Librarian, Notes and Queries n.s. 30 (1983): 442.
  • “First Use of the Term Law Library,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Summer 1983, 83
  • “A Computer Search for the Origin of Executive Privilege,” American Speech 59 (1984): 60.
  • “A Lawyer by Any Other Name,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Winter 1984/85, 97.
  • “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles,” California Law Review 73 (1985): 1540.
  • “Historical Notes on the Vocabulary of the Women’s Movement,” American Speech 60 (1985): 3.
  • “Yuppies, Yumpies, Yaps, and Computer-Assisted Lexicology,” American Speech 61 (1986): 139.
  • “Legal Technology: Which is Better, Lexis or Westlaw?” California Lawyer, January-February 1988, 56.
  • “Contributions to the History of Library Terminology,” Library Quarterly 59 (1989): 95.
  • “Linguistic Applications of LEXIS and WESTLAW,鈥� Jurimetrics Journal 30 (1990): 147.
  • “The Most-Cited Articles from The Yale Law Journal,鈥� Yale Law Journal 100 (1991): 1449.
  • “Origins of Bibliometrics, Citation Indexing and Citation Analysis: The Neglected Legal Literature,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45 (1992): 337.
  • “Last Words on Taxes,” New York Times, April 16, 1993, A31.
  • “Response to Landes and Posner,鈥� Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1996): 841.
  • “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles Revisited,鈥� Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1996): 751.
  • “Introduction to Symposium on Trends in Legal Citations and Scholarship鈥� [with Jean Stefancic], Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1996): 743.
  • “KeyCite and Shepard鈥檚: Coverage and Currency of Citations to Recent Cases: A Comparative Study,鈥� Legal Information Alert, April 1998, 1.
  • “A Study in Computer-Assisted Lexicology: Evidence on the Emergence of Hopefully as a Sentence Adverb from the JSTOR Journal Archive and Other Electronic Resources,” American Speech 73 (1998): 279.
  • “The Most-Cited Legal Scholars,鈥� Journal of Legal Studies 29 (2000): 409.
  • “The Most-Cited Legal Books Published Since 1978,鈥� Journal of Legal Studies 29 (2000): 397.
  • “The Most-Cited Law Reviews,” Journal of Legal Studies 29 (2000): 389.
  • “Anonymous Was a Woman,” Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2011, 46.
  • “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time” [with Michelle Pearse], Michigan Law Review 110 (2012): 1483.
  • “Introduction” to special tribute issue for Morris L. Cohen, Law Library Journal 104 (2012): 9.
  • “Who Wrote the Bluebook?鈥� [letter to the editor], New York Times, November 27, 2013.
  • “The Most-Cited Articles from the Iowa Law Review,鈥� Iowa Law Review 100, no. 1 (2014).
  • “The Secret History of the Bluebook鈥� [with Julie Graves Krishnaswami], Minnesota Law Review 100 (2016): 1563.
  • “The Most-Cited Articles from the Minnesota Law Review,鈥� Minnesota Law Review 100 (2016): 1735.
  • “You Can Quote Them” (regular column), Yale Alumni Magazine, 2007-2016.
  • “Confessions of the Antedater,” Dictionaries 39 (2018): 23.
  • “Things You Know That Ain鈥檛 So,鈥� Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2017.
  • “The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited,鈥� University of Chicago Law Review 88 (2021): 1595.
  • “Memorial: Daniel Lawrence Wade (1944-2020),” Law Library Journal 113 (2021): 79.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS BY THE INDUCTEE

  • The Most-Cited Law Review Articles. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 1987.
  • The Most Cited Articles from the Yale Law Journal. New Haven: Yale Law Journal, 1991.
  • LEXIS: The Complete User鈥檚 Guide. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
    Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Stumpers!: Answers to Hundreds of Questions That Stumped the Experts, New York: Random House, 1998.
  • Garry, Jane, and Fred R. Shapiro, Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
    Collected Papers on Legal Citation Analysis, Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2001.
  • “The Politically Correct United States Supreme Court and the Motherfucking Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Using Legal Databases to Trace the Origins of Words and Quotations,” in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, ed. Marlyn Robinson (William S. Hein & Co., 2003).
  • Yale Book of Quotations, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Clapp, James E., Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro, Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
  • Doyle, Charles Clay, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
  • New Yale Book of Quotations, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.