Kathryn James is the Rare Book Librarian at the Yale Law Library, before which she was the Curator for Early Modern Books and Manuscripts at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She received her doctorate in early modern British history from Oxford and her M.L.I.S. from the University of Pittsburgh. Her recent publications include English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 (Beinecke Library and Yale, 2020) and, edited with Phil Withington, Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization, a special issue of Historical Journal (2021).