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Video Celebrates UConn Law Class of 2020
While the coronavirus pandemic has forced the UConn School of Law to postpone the commencement ceremony originally scheduled for May 17, 2020 until a safer time, this video celebrates the most recent graduates and their achievements:
2020 UConn Law Graduates Say Thank You
Members of the UConn School of Law, working from home around the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, sent video messages of gratitude to those who helped them through law school.
Alumni Support Law School in Difficult Time
As the Covid-19 pandemic has taken hold and forced the UConn School of Law and its students off campus, alumni have stepped up to help in many ways. Their generous gifts of time and financial support have provided vital assistance to admissions, career development, student services and other aspects of the law school’s operation. Law […]
Q&A with Law Dean Fisher on Covid-19 Response
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of society, including legal education. We talked with Dean Timothy Fisher about the law school’s response to the crisis. How did the law school transition to remote operations? Our first challenge was to pivot from an in-person community to a virtual community in the space of a […]
Law School Community Moves Online
Near the end of three years of rigorous study, UConn Law student Louanne Cooley was looking forward to finishing her final semester and graduating. The Covid-19 pandemic upended everything, and suddenly the future felt far less certain. “Some bar exams are postponed, and who knows what it will all mean for future jobs,” Cooley said. […]
Professor Jessica Rubin Wins Teaching Award
Professor Jessica Rubin will receive the 2020 Perry Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award. Rubin is the director of the Legal Practice Program and of the Animal Law Clinic at the UConn School of Law. She is a widely recognized expert in animal law and was instrumental in creating Desmond’s Law, which allows Connecticut courts to […]
UConn Law Rises to 50 in U.S. News Ranking
UConn School of Law, the top-ranked public law school in the Northeast, has risen to a rank of 50 in the U.S. News & World Report list of Best Law Schools. “While no ranking can capture the full strengths of a law school, we are proud of the steps we have taken to continue improving outcomes […]
Moot Court Competition Brings Out the Best
Arguing a case before three distinguished jurists was the “the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my academic career,” said Abby Booth ’22, after she and Sarah Wylie ’22 won the 2020 Alva P. Loiselle Moot Court Competition at the UConn School of Law. The final session of the annual competition, which gives first-year law […]
Connecticut Supreme Court Visits UConn Law
UConn Law students got an intimate look at how Connecticut’s highest court conducts business when the Connecticut Supreme Court heard two cases at the UConn School of Law in Hartford on February 27, 2020. The seven-justice panel, sitting en banc before a large crowd in the Reading Room of William F. Starr Hall, consisted of […]
UConn Law Community Remembers Former Dean Hugh Macgill
Hugh Macgill, who served on the UConn Law faculty for more than 40 years, 10 of them as dean, was a transformative leader of the UConn School of Law.