Professor Mathilde Cohen has been selected for a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Princeton University for the 2020-21 academic year. The University Center for Human Values at Princeton awards the fellowships to scholars who research and write about topics involving human values in public and private life. The program draws from a range […]

Members of the UConn School of Law, working from home around the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, sent video messages of gratitude to those who helped them through law school.

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of society, including legal education. We talked with Dean Timothy Fisher about the law school’s response to the crisis. How did the law school transition to remote operations? Our first challenge was to pivot from an in-person community to a virtual community in the space of a […]

Professor Jessica Rubin will receive the 2020 Perry Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award. Rubin is the director of the Legal Practice Program and of the Animal Law Clinic at the UConn School of Law. She is a widely recognized expert in animal law and was instrumental in creating Desmond’s Law, which allows Connecticut courts to […]

Arguing a case before three distinguished jurists was the “the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my academic career,” said Abby Booth ’22, after she and Sarah Wylie ’22 won the 2020 Alva P. Loiselle Moot Court Competition at the UConn School of Law. The final session of the annual competition, which gives first-year law […]