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Bryan Stevenson Named 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, is the 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar at UConn School of Law. He will visit the law school on November 7, 2019 to give a public speech. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who […]
Symposium Devoted to Work of Professor Richard Kay
Scholars from around the world gathered at the UConn School of Law to celebrate Professor Richard Kay and his body of work in constitutional law on Friday, September 13, 2019. The conference, entitled “Original Constitutionalist: Reconstructing Richard Kay’s Scholarship,” explored Kay’s extensive works in constitutional interpretation and comparative constitutional law, including his book “The Glorious […]
Alumna Writes History of Black Experience at UConn Law
Constance Belton Green, the first African American woman to graduate from UConn School of Law, has written a history of the law school’s black students and faculty. The 65-page book, “Still We Rise: African Americans at the University of Connecticut School of Law,” traces a history from the founding of the law school in 1921 […]
Incoming Law Class Brimming with Experience
UConn School of Law welcomed a diverse group of 165 new JD students, including theater majors, engineers, artists and health clinicians, along with 34 LLM students from 15 countries as the 2019-20 academic year began. The incoming JD class consists of 139 Day Division and 26 Evening Division students from 23 states and 100 undergraduate […]
An-Ping Hsieh Joins UConn Law as Visiting Professor
An-Ping “Ping” Hsieh brings 33 years experience as a practicing lawyer, 23 of those as a senior in-house counsel at United Technologies and Hubbell Incorporated, to a new position at UConn School of Law: visiting professor from practice. His leap from the business world to university life may look bigger than it feels subjectively to […]
New Program Introduces Students from China to U.S. Law, Culture
Eleven law students from China are spending six months at UConn School of Law, studying the U.S. legal system and experiencing American culture under a new partnership between UConn and Southeast University in Nanjing, China. After completing introductory courses with Professor David Woods, the students will join the rest of the student body when classes begin at […]
Professor Alexandra Lahav Elected to American Law Institute
UConn Law Professor Alexandra D. Lahav, an expert in the civil justice system and tort law, has been elected to the American Law Institute, a national, independent organization of judges, lawyers and legal scholars working to improve the law. Lahav’s research in litigation and civil justice draws on perspectives from legal analysis, history, political theory, […]
Op-ed: Trump Wasn’t the First President to Confront the Supreme Court – And Back Down
A conflict between President Andrew Jackson and the U.S. Supreme Court yields lesson for contemporary politics, writes UConn School of Law Professor Bethany Berger.
A Law Professor’s Long Campaign for Justice in Bar Admissions
UConn Law Professor Jon Bauer has argued for decades that asking applicants to the Connecticut bar about their mental health diagnoses was discriminatory and a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the 1990s, his Civil Rights Clinic brought a lawsuit that resulted a federal court settlement requiring the bar examining committee to stop […]
Law Graduates Primed to Tackle World’s Problems
The shifting weather inspired more than a few quips, but the mood beneath the tent for the 96th commencement of the UConn School of Law on Sunday was decidedly sunny. The graduates, many smiling and jubilantly waving, marched to their seats, as family and friends gathered for the ceremony looked on and cheered. Dean Timothy […]