Christopher Galanos

Christopher D. Galanos serves as the Director of Library Operations & Faculty Services at the WashU Law Library. Reporting to the Director and Associate Dean of the Law Library, Galanos oversees the Library’s Public Services, Technical Services, and Faculty Services departments. He also serves as a Lecturer in Law, teaching Legal Research Methodologies to first-year students, as well as advanced legal research courses for second- and third-year law students.

Before joining WashU Law, Galanos was the Access & Operations Librarian and a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law from 2022-2024 where he taught legal research and advanced legal research courses. Prior to that, he spent three years as a Reference Librarian and Lecturer at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University (2019-2022) where he taught Legal Analysis and Writing I (legal research and objective writing) and Legal Analysis and Writing II (legal research and persuasive writing).

Before shifting his career towards law librarianship in 2018, Galanos practiced law in Central Illinois for ten years with a focus on civil litigation, primarily representing medical professionals in state and federal court.

He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Missouri.