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Leslie Levin Wins 2023 UConn Law Teaching Award 

The Perry Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award was established in 2016 through the generosity of Perry Zirkel, who graduated from the UConn School of Law in 1976. 

Associate Dean Jessica Rubin and Teaching Fellow Tara Cooley with dogs

UConn Law’s Tara Cooley Recognized by Animal Legal Defense Fund

Cooley is a teaching fellow who serves as a court-appointed advocate in animal cruelty cases.

UConn Law student Farah Jean, left, and graduate Tiana Hercules '08, right, work with someone seeking a pardon at the Changing Legacies: Expungement Clinic at Capital Community College on Feb. 25, 2023.

‘This Clinic Was Everything for Me’

Expungement clinic organized by UConn Law alumna helps provide second chances for people who have served prison sentences

A composite image of two headshots, one of Julia Simon-Kerr and another of Anne Dailey.

Anne Dailey and Julia Simon-Kerr Named to Professorships

Both professorships are awarded on the basis of scholarship. Dailey's work involves family law, children and the law, constitutional law, and law and psychoanalysis. Simon-Kerr is a leading scholar on evidence.

Law School Student Organization Crowdfunding Competition Underway

For four weeks, student organizations will compete in challenges around amount of funds raised and number of donors to earn additional funds.

Law School Collaboration Produces Legal Research Guide

The new edition of the research guide for Connecticut practitioners and law students represents an overhaul of the original edition published in 2009.

Karen DeMeola

Karen DeMeola Named Inaugural Assistant Dean for Diversity, Belonging and Community Engagement

The position is new to UConn Law and is one Dean Eboni S. Nelson views as integral to advancing the excellence of the law school.