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Symposium Addresses Legal Issues Faced by LGBTQ Youth
The legal community’s focus on such victories as same-sex marriage obscures the challenges that LGBTQ people continue to face, including homelessness, violence and discrimination in the workplace, according to the keynote speakers at a UConn Law symposium.
Law and Business Students Negotiate Together
About 40 UConn business and law students competed and collaborated last week in the second annual Business Law Negotiation Competition, working on the first day of the competition to settle a business dispute and on the second day to reach an agreement to build a dam.
Judge Droney to Speak, Receive Honorary Degree at Commencement
Judge Christopher F. Droney will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the May 22, 2016, commencement of UConn School of Law, where he will also be the featured speaker.
UConn Law Professor Writes Supreme Court Brief
UConn Law Professor Bethany Berger was a lead author with Professor Colette Routel of Mitchell Hamline Law of an amicus brief filed Dec. 22 on behalf of 17 historians, political scientists and law professors in the U.S. Supreme Court case Nebraska v. Parker. The case considers whether the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska is diminished—meaning its […]
Law School Announces New Intellectual Property Degree
The new degree will be the only one in New England with a focus on policy and global intellectual property law.
Panel Examines Voting Rights 50 Years After the Voting Rights Act
Voter suppression and racial discrimination were the focus of panel discussion on Nov. 19 about the Voting Rights Act of 1965, sponsored by UConn School of Law and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. Voting Rights PanelThe panel included Professor Douglas Spencer, who has a joint appointment to UConn School of […]
Experts Bring Death Penalty Disparity Debate to UConn Law
Two experts with conflicting views on the existence of racial disparity and arbitrariness in the Connecticut death penalty debated their positions in an intense exchange at UConn School of Law on Nov. 20, 2015. The event, co-sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Foundation, featured Stanford Law Professor John Donohue and Dr. […]
PILG Auction Crowd Bids to Raise Funds in the Public Interest
The Public Interest Law Group’s 23rd Annual Auction on Nov. 13 raised more than $28,000 from an enthusiastic crowd that filled the Reading Room in William F. Starr Hall and bought everything on offer. The most sought-after items were the three Barbri Bar Review Course scholarships, which raised a total of $6,700. Various vacation trips […]
Gov. Malloy Proposes Major Initiative at Law Review Symposium
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, speaking at the largest symposium ever hosted by the UConn School of Law, proposed a groundbreaking series of reforms to the criminal justice system of the state, and indeed the nation. In an address at the annual Connecticut Law Review Symposium on Nov. 6, 2015, “The Other One Percent: Prison Reform […]
Law Professors Contribute to Supreme Court Briefs
UConn Law professors Bethany Berger and Brendan Maher have contributed to separate amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court case Dollar General v. Mississippi Choctaw, which concerns the jurisdiction of Indian tribal courts over civil claims against non-members. Dollar General Corporation operates a store on land held in trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw […]