GEORGE DAVID WILSON
Access Services and Reference Librarian - providing circulation/access and reference services
ORCID ID 0000-0001-6493-8338
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TEL (650) 736-7978
EMAIL gwilson@law.stanford.edu
Stanford Law School, Robert Crown Law Library webpage
2006-2023: Reference Librarian (2006-2023)[, Access Services Coordinator (2017-2023),] and Access Services Librarian (2022-2023)Robert
Crown Law Library
EXPERIENCE
2023-Present: Borrowing Services & Outreach Librarian
2005-2006: Library
Specialist, Circulation/Access & Reference Services,
Robert Crown Law Library,
2004-2005: Parking
Operations Representative, (Parking &) Transportation
Services,
2002-2004: Program Coordinator,
Office of Community Standards [formerly Office of Judicial Affairs], Stanford University
- administered/coordinated the student student conduct (formerly judicial) process; provided liaison with the Board on Judicial Affairs; promoted fulfillment and enforcement of the Fundamental Standard and Honor Code;
compiled statistics, authored reports, and provided community outreach, including creation and production of online and hard-copy materials
1997-2002: Research
Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University - conducted research and writing on international law, national security and terrorism; served as liaison to project supporters and collaborators;
oversaw editing and publication production; organized and managed conferences and seminars
1996-1997: Attorney, Law Office of George David Wilson, Palo Alto, CA - solo law practice, including contract drafting, negotiation and review, formation of businesses, estate planning, and preparation of wills and trusts
1993-1996: Research Associate, (Freeman Spogli) Institute for
International
Studies (FSI), Stanford University - conducted research and writing on international development and economics; served as liaison to project supporters and collaborators; oversaw editing and publication production; managed conferences and seminars
1988-1993: Attorney, Marron, Reid & Sheehy, San Francisco - business and regulatory law practice in mid-sized law firm, including contract drafting, negotiation and review and formation of businesses; covered nonprofit issues, securities laws and regulations, real estate purchases/sales and leases, Uniform Commercial Code issues, tax law issues, and energy/natural resources regulatory compliance issues
1987-1988: Attorney, Ragan &
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
1995-present: Co-Founder, Director & Officer, Rexchange, Inc., a California S corporation [entity number C1954587], Mountain View, CA - providing business consulting services
1992-2011: Co-Founder, Advisor, Director & Officer, Aurora Dawn Foundation/Marty's
Place, San Francisco (formerly entity number C1829278; incorporated 14 June 1993 as a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation; granted final U.S. Internal Review Code section 501(c)(3) publicly supported charitable organization status 7 July 1998 and California Revenue and Taxation Code section 23701(d) charitable corporation status 9 June 1993; dissolved as of 31 December 2011), which provided housing and other assistance to individuals afflicted with AIDS/HIV
1991: Lecturer, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA (September 19, 1991 course outline) - taught (sociology) course on Japanese people, behavior and culture
1989-1990: Managing Editor & Editor-in-Chief, SF Barrister Law Journal, Bar Association
of San Francisco (BASF) - managed periodic publication of younger BASF members
("Barristers Club");
solicited, selected, edited, and published articles, reports and other materials of current interest to the legal community
1979-1981: Shipyard Laborer & Member of Shipyard and Marine Shop Laborers [now Laborers International Union] Local No. 886 (former membership no. 2233488), Oakland, CA - performed labor and maintenance tasks aboard vessels and in shipyards in the San Francisco Bay Area -- see San Francisco Labor Council affiliates
EDUCATION
2005-2008: San Jose State University, School of Information (iSchool ~ formerly School of Library & Information
Science) - Master of Library and Information Science [M. L. I. S.], May 24, 2008
(member: American Association of Law Libraries; see also "Memberships" below)
1983-1986:
1979-1982:
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
2022: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, Research Division, Economic Research: "Data Literacy for Librarians" - Verified achievement at a foundational level of data literacy by development of seven stand-alone skills: (1) Acting on Data; (2) Identifying Data Sources And Release Frequencies; (3) Saving Graphs And Downloading Data; (4) Storytelling With Data; (5) Understanding Data Types And Units; (6) Using Data Ethically; (7) Visualizing Data
2011: American TESOL Institute - American TESOL Advanced
Certification and TESOL Thesis (April 2011)
1981-1982: The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies [Yokohama, Japan formerlyTokyo, Japan] - Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo certificate of completion (June 10, 1982)
1977-1979: Undergraduate coursework in French and German during high school at Indiana University, Bloomington
1975-1979: Bloomington High School South, Bloomington, Indiana - graduated after 7 semesters in January 1979
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS [authored/edited or co-authored/co-edited]
Legal
Research Methods in a Modern World: A Coursebook (2011) [front & back
cover]; and see the corresponding website for this book here
Hello
BLAW: Bloomberg Law, the Newcomer in Legal
Research, Meets Academic Users, 13(5) AALL Spectrum 16-19 & 31 (March 2009)
On Conflict of Human
Rights, 5 Pierce Law Review 31-57 (December 2006)
Draft International Convention To Enhance Protection from Cyber
Crime and Terrorism, in The Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism, pp. 249-265 (Hoover
Institution, 2001)
One Country, Two -- International Commercial Arbitration -- Systems, 17
Journal of International Arbitration 47-105 (December 2000)
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as a Model of
Regional External Autonomy, 32 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 1-38
(Winter 2000)
The Present [Biological and Chemical Weapons]
Threat, 2000 Hoover Digest (No. 1) 110-117
Capital and Technology: China Rejoins the Modern Business World -- An
Analysis of China's Equity Joint Ventures Law, 25 University of
San Francisco Law Review 511-581 (Spring 1991)
The Geothermal Steam
Act Amendments of 1988, 19 Independent Energy 64, 66 (April 1989)
State Bar of California (admitted 16 June 1988; status: inactive)
Colorado Supreme Court (admitted 11 August 1988; status: inactive)
District of Columbia Bar (admitted 24 November 1986; status: inactive)
Court of Appeals of Maryland (admitted 18 June 1987; status: inactive)
BETA PHI MU International Library & Information Studies Honor Society (certificate of election to full membership in 2009)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Educational Workers Industrial Union 620 (former membership no. X-381605)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (admitted 30 September 1987)
U.S. Court of Federal Claims (formerly U.S. Claims Court) (admitted 30 December 1987)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (admitted 29 January 1988)
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (admitted 7 March 1988)
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (admitted 16 June 1988)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (admitted 16 June 1988)
The Weary Club of Norway, Maine
*100-plus-time blood donor at the Stanford Blood Center* **References available upon request**
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/REFERENCES