Julia A. Wentz

Title: Associate Dean, Director, Law Library

Office #: Corboy 312

Phone: 312.915.7199

E-mail: jwentz@luc.edu

About

Julia Wentz joined Loyola's law library in 1998 as Associate Director. She worked as a librarian and media specialist prior to attending law school. She practiced law for several years with the Christian Health Services Development Corporation in St. Louis, MO as a staff attorney. She subsequently served in several law school libraries before joining Loyola: she was reference librarian at William Mitchell in St. Paul, MN and at the University of Minnesota, and associate library director at Marquette. She has been an active participant in a variety of law librarian groups, speaking and serving as panelist on a number of occasions. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Chicago Association of Law Libraries.

Degrees

B.S., Iowa State, 1971
M.A., Library Science, University of Iowa, 1974
J.D., University of Iowa, 1983
M.A., Hospital and Health Administration, University of Iowa, 1984

Program Areas

Courses Taught

Advanced Legal Research: Administrative Law Resources

Publications

Publications

Research Guide to Women's Studies for Law Students, 15 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 43 (1996)
Comment, Balancing Academic Freedom and Civil Rights: Toward an Appropriate Privilege for the Votes of Academic Peer Review Committee, 68 Iowa L.Rev. 585 (1983)

Articles

Justice Requires Access to the Law, 36 Loy.U.Chi. L.J. 641 (2005) [article]

Recent Presentations

Invited participant, Summit Conference on the Future of Law Librarianship, University of Texas Law School, November 2003