School of Law
Human Rights: Corporations’ Newest Frontier
A Conversation with Business and Human Rights Professor Caroline Kaeb An interest in international law, coupled with work at the United Nations specializing in labor rights and refugee issues, fostered a passion for human rights in UConn Professor Caroline Kaeb. But as she delved deeper into her graduate work and the solutions to the many […]
Project Designed to Help Debtors Fight Back in Court
A UConn Law professor is launching a project that aims to help low- and moderate-income individuals deal successfully with the legal consequences of debt.
Law Students Get Involved in Legislative Process
Poised in her business suit and prepared with her research, Kara Zarchin ’18 adjusted her microphone in a hearing room at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford and began her testimony. She spoke to state representatives and senators on the legislature’s Committee on Children in support of Senate Bill 397, which would create an independent ombudsman […]
Retired Judge Shira Scheindlin Speaks on Race and Policing
From the enforcement of slavery laws to recent shootings of young, unarmed black men, policing in the United States has always targeted and punished racial minorities disproportionately, retired Judge Shira A. Scheindlin told an audience Tuesday at UConn School of Law. Scheindlin, the 2017 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar, traced the history of racial bias in […]
Graduate School Applications and Rankings on the Rise
Applications to graduate programs at UConn are on the upswing, while several of the programs rose in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
UConn Group to Spend Spring Break Assisting Asylum Applicants
A team led by UConn Law's Asylum and Human Rights Clinic will spend the break at a detention facility offering free legal help and social work assessments and support to female detainees from Central America.
Conference Explores Local Solutions for Global Climate Change
A sold-out crowd of academics, environmentalists, lawyers, planners, architects, and students assembled March 3, 2017, for the 22nd Gallivan Conference, “Municipal Climate Policy: Local Solutions for a Global Problem at UConn School of Law. The conference, convened by Professor Sara Bronin, the Thomas F. Gallivan Chair in Real Property Law and cosponsored by the law school’s […]
A Lesson from Enron: Charter Schools Need More Oversight
A UConn professor of education and law draws parallels between financial mismanagement in the charter school sector and the notorious Enron accounting scandal.
Shira A. Scheindlin Named 2017 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar
Shira A. Scheindlin, a retired judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York known for high-profile cases involving civil rights and public policy, is the 2017 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar at UConn School of Law. She will visit the law school on April 4, 2017, to speak on the […]
Professor Alexandra Lahav Defends Litigation in New Book
The popular perception of a nation awash in frivolous lawsuits and outrageous damage awards is not just inaccurate, it is undermining one of the pillars of American democracy, writes UConn Law Professor Alexandra Lahav in a new book, In Praise of Litigation. This is because courts and legislatures have reacted by limiting people’s ability to […]