
Ellen Frentzen
Assistant Dean for Administration
Associate Director for Administration & Access Services
Lecturer
BA, Connecticut College
MLIS, University of Washington
JD, Cornell Law School
LLM, Cornell Law School
Biography
Ellen Frentzen joined the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries in December 2012. As the Assistant Librarian for Administration, she works on planning, management, and assessment of library services, systems, and collections, as well as providing assistance at the reference desk and teaching legal research to students in the First Year Writing and American Law LLM programs and the law library’s Research Skills for Practice Program. Previously she worked as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of South Carolina’s Coleman Karesh Law Library and an intern at both the Social Law Library and the Marian Gould Gallagher Library at the University of Washington.
Ellen received her Master’s in Library and Information Science with a specialization in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington and her JD with a concurrent LLM in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School. While at Cornell, she was a Managing Editor for the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, a Bench Editor for the Moot Court Board, and a Research Assistant for the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative (CeRI). Her primary research interests are library assessment, management, and government documents. She also regularly writes and presents on teaching legal research and skills-based learning to millennials.
She is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, where she has served on the Research and Scholarship Committee and the Annual Meeting Program Committee, and Law Librarians of New England, where she currently serves as an Education Director.
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Courses
Mock Trial Competitions: LAW JD 763
This year-long course is designed to prepare and support the 2L and 3L members of BU Law’s mock trial competition organization who participate in extramural mock trial competitions as advocates (including foil teams and alternates), student coaches, witnesses, bailiffs, or trial technicians. The course will focus on teaching students the basics of trial procedure and practice, pretrial and trial motions, and evidence, with a focus on the procedures, motions, and evidence rules that are most relevant to mock trial competitions. In the fall, class sessions will focus on the various aspects of mock trial (motions in limine, opening and closing statements, direct and cross exam, proffering experts, common objections, common rules of evidence, trial motions, and procedural competition basics). In the spring, students and the instructor will use course hours to prepare for and attend various mock trial competitions. All students will be required to write a reflection paper due no later than two weeks after the close of their competition. There will be no final exam. GRADING NOTICE: CR/NC graded. UPPER-CLASS WRITING REQUIREMENT: This class may not be used to satisfy the requirement. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar will be administratively dropped from the course.
FALL 2025: LAW JD 763 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 19th 2025Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 1 | Jarrod F. Reich |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 1 | Jarrod F. Reich |