Lauren E. Diaz is the Director of the Law Library and Information Services and Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship. A licensed Florida attorney, law librarian, legal educator, and scholar, Professor Diaz’s work focuses on legal research, law library administration, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, intellectual property, and the evolving role of information and technology in legal education and practice.

As Director of the Law Library, Professor Diaz leads the Law Library’s administration, collections, research and reference services, technology initiatives, instructional programming, and support for faculty scholarship and student learning. Her academic law library career has included roles spanning reference and instructional services, technical services, collections, systems, operations, and administration, giving her experience across the major functional areas of an academic law library. She has also developed partnerships with legal technology companies to expand experiential learning and access to practice-facing tools for law students and faculty.

Professor Diaz is particularly active in the areas of artificial intelligence, legal research, and legal technology education. Before joining St. Thomas University College of Law, she served as Associate Director of Operations and Collections at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, where she also served on the teaching faculty, as the law school’s inaugural Technology and Innovation Fellow, and as a Florida Bar coach. She founded NSU Law’s AI and Legal Technology Lab and AI Fellowship and designed one of the nation’s first law school courses devoted specifically to AI-assisted legal research. Her teaching has included Advanced Legal Research, Advanced Legal Research with AI Tools, Legal Research and Writing, and experiential instruction involving investigative and public-records research. She also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, where she teaches legal research and writing in the Health Policy and Law program.

Professor Diaz is the author of the forthcoming book The AI Legal Researcher: Legal Research in the Age of AI, published by Carolina Academic Press, and her scholarship examines artificial intelligence, legal research and education, intellectual property, emerging technology, and the future of legal practice. She regularly presents nationally and internationally on artificial intelligence, legal research, legal technology, and legal education for academic and professional audiences. She has also appeared on podcasts and has been interviewed by news organizations as a subject-matter expert on artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and the evolving practice of law.

Professor Diaz is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Emerging Technology, and Information, an independent, expert-edited, open-access legal journal devoted to law, technology, legal information, and the future of legal practice. In 2026, she received the American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers Award in the New Member Division and the American Association of Law Libraries Minority Leadership Development Award.

Professor Diaz earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, where she served as an Articles Editor of the Nova Law Review. She holds a Master of Science in Information and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, magna cum laude, from Florida State University.