Madelyn F. Wessel

Madelyn Wessel is Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the General Counsel, focusing on a broad range of library system legal issues including intellectual property, copyright, licensing, and special issues arising in the area of digital scholarship. Ms. Wessel is an adjunct professor at the Curry Graduate School of Education at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the bars of Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Oregon. Ms. Wessel served as Deputy and later Chief Deputy City Attorney for Portland, Oregon from 1989-2001, practicing in a wide range of areas including constitutional law, employment, civil rights and government relations. Ms. Wessel holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Boston University.