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Ignite Crowdfunding Campaign Supports Student Groups
Student organizations at UConn School of Law raised more than $14,000 through the 2018 Ignite crowdfunding campaign. In the campaign’s fifth year, 22 student groups raised $14,492 from 273 donors. In addition, the 10 organizations that raised the most will split a $5,000 prize, donated by Laura Cahill ’84, in proportion to the amount each […]
For Olympic Athlete the Goal is Dual Degrees
Donn Cabral's professional running career has taken him around the world and provided some unique opportunities – including translating something for celebrity gymnast Simone Biles in Rio de Janeiro.
PILG Auction Exceeds Fundraising Goal
Spirited bidding contests broke out over a football signed by the New York Jets, an outing to see the movie “Aquaman” with Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola and, a host of other items at the 26th annual Public Interest Law Group Auction. A crowd of students, faculty, staff, alumni and other members of the community filled […]
Event Explores Tribal Conservation Traditions and Practices
The entire world should look to native practices of conservation in the fight against climate change, Ethel Branch, attorney general for the Navajo Nation, told the audience at the 2018 Connecticut Law Review symposium. “Long before the Puritans ever came to this land, native peoples were caring for and maintaining it with the lightest impact […]
Pre-Law Students Compete in Mock Trial Tournament at UConn Law
Pre-law students from around the Northeast converged on the UConn Law campus for the first New England Classic Mock Trial Tournament on Oct. 27 and 28, 2018. Students from Connecticut College, Quinnipiac University, Brandeis University, Wesleyan University, the University of Bridgeport, Amherst College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point competed in the tournament, […]
Professor Urges Supreme Court to Affirm Reservation Boundaries
Professor Bethany Berger has co-written an amicus brief on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians in a U.S. Supreme Court case concerning whether the Creek Reservation still exists in Oklahoma. If the Supreme Court affirms the decision of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal in Murphy v. Royal, it would mean that a […]
Professor Thomas Morawetz’s Book Explores Nature of Identity
As a scholar of both law and philosophy, UConn Law Professor Thomas Morawetz has written extensively about legal philosophy and ethics. Over the years, however, he has also explored a range of topics with more subtle ties to the law, including literature, language and the subject of his latest book: identity. “Knowing Self, Changing Self: […]
99-year-old Law School Alum Finds Purpose as Public Defender
WWII veteran Morton Katz '51 is still putting the lessons he learned at UConn Law to good use as a special public defender at Hartford Superior Court.
UConn Law Welcomes Six New Faculty Members
UConn School of Law welcomes six new faculty members this fall, including experts in prison reform, immigration law, white-collar crime and the application of technology in jurisprudence. Mary Beattie, who has been an academic success counselor at UConn School of Law for five years, has been named an assistant clinical professor of law and the […]
High School Students Take Mock Trial Seriously
High school students learning how the legal system functions during UConn Law's Summer Mock Trial Program put the celebrity Kanye West 'on trial' in a fictional case.