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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.
Student Daniel Hanley Gives TEDx Talk on Market Consolidation
To understand the marketplace, it helps to understand biodiversity, according to UConn Law student Daniel Hanley ‘19. A marketplace is an ecosystem,” Hanley said in a TEDxUConn talk, “and many of us understand how an ecosystem benefits by having large biodiversity of species in order for us to thrive. I believe the same can be […]
Asylum Clinic Honored for Work With Detained Asylum-Seekers
The Asylum and Human Rights Clinic at UConn School of Law has won the 2017 Light of Liberty Award from the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center for its work with immigrants seeking asylum. For the past two years, the clinic has organized the Immigration Detention Service Project, sending a team of law students, social work students, […]
Law Students Teach High School Students Constitutional Law
Hartford high school students came to UConn School of Law on April 27, 2017, to present their final arguments in a moot court case about a cell phone search and a student’s rap song. Arguments in the hypothetical case, involving the Fourth and First Amendments, were the culmination of a program offered through the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional […]
Graduates Lauded at 2017 UConn Law Commencement
Author and journalist Emily Bazelon delivered the keynote address to a celebratory crowd of graduates and their families on May 21, 2017, at the 94th commencement at UConn School of Law. “Get to know people whose lives have been ensnared by crime, the victims and the perpetrators. Often they’re not as different from each other […]
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 […]
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 […]