Director of Library Affairs
Associate Professor of Law
Tammy Pettinato Oltz is Director of Library Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She works at the intersection of legal technology and legal education, helping to lead AI integration across the law school curriculum and developing frameworks for teaching with generative AI tools. Her scholarship explores how generative AI is reshaping legal education and the legal profession. She also writes on Supreme Court history, judicial politics, and constitutional development, with an emphasis on court membership and competing interpretations of the 14th Amendment. She presents regularly to practitioners and legal services organizations on AI literacy and access to justice.
Education
J.D., 2005, Harvard Law School
M.S.I., 2007, University of Michigan
B.A., 1999, Gannon University
Experience
Mitchell Hamline School of Law: director of library affairs & associate professor of law, 2026–
Hamline University: assistant professor of legal studies, 2024–2025
University of North Dakota School of Law: assistant dean for law library & information services, 2020–2023; director of the law library, 2017–2020; interim director of the law library, 2016–2017; assistant professor of law, 2013–2024
University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law: visiting assistant professor of law, 2011–2013
University of La Verne College of Law: assistant director of career services and professional development, 2009–2011; adjunct professor, 2010–2011
UCLA School of Law: lecturer in law & reference librarian, 2007–2009
Bar Membership
Massachusetts, 2006
