Marcelo Rodríguez

Marcelo Rodríguez joined the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library in February 2021, and he was promoted to Associate Librarian for Comparative and International Law in April 2025. He came to us from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New Your City where he spent three years as their Research and Outreach Librarian and in charge of classes through the Justice for All initiative.  Marcelo also brings to the UA his research and librarian experience from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Columbia Law Library, the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and the Law Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

Marcelo is active in numerous organizations, both nationally and internationally such as the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL), American Society of International Law (ASIL), Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL), Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), Seminar of the Acquisition of Latin American Materials (SALALM), and the International Federation of Library Associations - Latin America and the Caribbean (IFLA-LAC). He is a columnist for  and the creator of the international project Monitoring COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Born in Puerto Rico, he speaks Spanish and French fluently as well as reading knowledge in Hebrew and German.

For recent publications, please check his ORCID and Hein Online links under his photo.