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In Memoriam: Hugh Macgill, Former UConn School of Law Dean
Hugh Macgill, who passed away this month, was a transformative leader of the UConn School of Law during his time as dean.
Law School to Honor Late Professor Olimpiad Ioffe
The late Olimpiad Ioffe, a distinguished Russian émigré who helped establish the study of international law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, will be celebrated this year to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. Born Jan. 22, 1920 in Ukraine, just before its entry into the U.S.S.R., Ioffe was educated at Leningrad […]
Tax Clinic at UConn Law Helping Contract Workers
The gig economy is creating more questions in regards to IRS payments.
Louanne Cooley LAW ’20 Joins UConn COP25 Fellows
At COP25, the United Nations’ annual conference on climate change, participants looked at the problem from many angles. For UConn Law student Louanne Cooley LAW ’20, the most promising ideas came from discussions around climate law and policy. Nearly 200 countries sent delegates to Madrid for the conference, and thousands of scholars, activists and scientists […]
Humane Society Honors Law Professor Jessica Rubin
UConn Law Professor Jessica Rubin was honored by the Connecticut Humane Society with induction into the Gertrude O. Lewis Humanitarian Society on Nov. 9, 2019. Rubin was honored at the Humane Society’s annual Diamonds in the Ruff gala, and was only the fifth person to be inducted into the Humanitarian Society, named after the Connecticut Humane […]
Bryan Stevenson Invokes the Power of Memory
The story of how Bryan Stevenson got an innocent man freed from death row will soon be released as a movie, but Stevenson chose a different story to begin a speech as the 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar at the UConn School of Law. He began with a personal story of racist cruelty from his […]
Otis Elevator Executive Gives Back with Law School Scholarship
Laurie Havanec was just 27 years old when she felt a lump in her neck. It turned out to be cancer and instantly turned her world upside down. She remembers looking at her two-year-old son and thinking she might not get to see him grow up. “That had a huge impact on me personally,” Havanec […]
PILG Auction Offers Fun to Support a Great Cause
A brewery tour, a football signed by the New York Jets and dinner and a Star Wars movie with Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola are among the more than 100 items that will be up for bid on Nov. 1, 2019, at the 27th Annual PILG Auction, a fundraiser to support the work of UConn Law […]
Student Groups Explore Legacy of Columbus Together
On the day commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, students gathered for a program on his complicated legacy. Several of the law school’s cultural affinity groups organized and sponsored Indigenous People’s Day: Community Celebration on Oct. 14, 2019. They came together, to share food and attend a panel discussion featuring Lee Mixashawn […]
Symposium Explores Polarization and Incivility
The United States has left an age of bipartisanship and entered one of extreme polarization, with race once again playing an explosive role, political commentator David Gergen told the audience at a symposium organized by the Connecticut Law Review at the UConn School of Law. “We have left what increasingly is looking like a golden […]