School of Law
Law School’s DACA Clinic Advises Clients of Their Rights
The clinic offers consultations to young people affected by the discontinuation of the DACA immigration policy and provides valuable work experience for law students.
Alum Takes Students on Venture into Outer Space Law
Steve Mirmina ’92 JD, a space law expert, will discuss his specialty at UConn Law on March 2.
Remembering Former UConn Law Dean Howard Sacks
Howard R. Sacks, dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law from 1967 to 1972, died Feb. 16, 2018. He was 96. Under his leadership, the law school expanded its clinics, recruited faculty members of national stature, broadened the curriculum to cover more national and international issues, and adopted a more interdisciplinary approach to […]
MBA Candidates, Law Students Test Their Skills in a Two-Day Negotiation Challenge
MBA candidate Chris DiGiacomo is accustomed to negotiating project dates and deadlines through his job as a program management specialist at Pratt & Whitney. But after winning the 4th Annual Business/Law Negotiation Competition on January 27 at UConn Law School with two teammates, he admits he had to lie down. “My brain was exhausted,” he […]
UConn Law Alumnus and ‘Marshall’ Scriptwriter Speaks at Screening
“The only way to get through a bigot’s door is to break it down,” actor Chadwick Boseman, playing Thurgood Marshall, declares at a pivotal point in the film Marshall. The statement elicited a hum of agreement from the audience gathered at Spotlight Theatres in downtown Hartford on January 25, 2018, to celebrate the film and […]
UConn Law Community Remembers Professor Robert Whitman
Robert “Bob” Whitman, professor emeritus at UConn School of Law, died Monday, January 22, 2018. Professor Whitman, UConn Law’s longest-serving professor, knew he wanted to teach law by his second year of law school. After a brief professorship at Maryland Law, he accepted a position with Cravath Swaine & Moore, as he felt he’d be a […]
25th Annual PILG Auction Raises Money and Spirits
High-spirited bidding contests erupted over a go-cart outing with Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola, UConn women’s basketball tickets and a week of parking in Dean Timothy Fisher’s space, along with a host of other items at the 25th annual Public Interest Law Group Auction. The live and silent auction on Nov. 10, 2017, packed the Reading […]
Law Professor’s Book Connects Psychoanalysis and the Law
Anne Dailey addresses popular misconceptions about psychoanalysis, including the idea that psychoanalytic ideas about the unconscious directly conflict with the law’s presumption that each individual, unless insane or coerced, acts upon the basis of free will.
Business Law’s Stephen Park Honored with ‘Distinguished Early Career Faculty’ Award
Business Law Assistant Professor Stephen Park was awarded the Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) at the 2017 annual conference in Savannah, Georgia in August.
Symposium Examines Divisions Over Religious Liberty
A Connecticut Law Review symposium on religious freedom focused on controversies in recent years, including litigation that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.