Ryan Marcotte

Ryan Marcotte is the Rinn Law Library’s reference, instruction and scholarship librarian, joining DePaul in Fall 2023. In this role, he supports the scholarship needs of law faculty, teaches legal research to upper-level law students and conducts his own research. He also leads the law library’s work on the DePaul Supreme Court Signature Collection, which is being digitized and will be the subject of future scholarly publications. 

Ryan’s research focuses on the confluence of AI and legal research, epistemology and the historiography of John Adams. His first published article, “AI-Assisted Legal Research: AIALR,” appeared in the June 2025 edition of Legal Information Management, the journal of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. 

Ryan received his BA in vocal music from Olivet Nazarene University, an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a JD from Northern Illinois University. While in law school, he served as president of several student societies, as a research assistant and as the graduate staff assistant for the law library. After law school, he worked as the librarian for the Los Angeles branch of the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell LLP. In that role, he conducted legal research across many topical areas, including corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy law, in addition to maintaining the office library and training incoming summer associates on how to do legal research.