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UConn Law Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola Named Attorney of the Year
Karen DeMeola ’96, assistant dean for enrollment and students, was honored as the 2018 Attorney of the Year at the Connecticut Law Tribune’s annual awards dinner on May 24, 2018. In addition to serving as assistant dean at UConn School of Law, DeMeola is president of the Connecticut Bar Association. The other finalists for the […]
June 8, 2018 | Jeanne Leblanc
Law Graduates Urged to Seek Compromise
Judge Cornelia T. L. Pillard, delivering the keynote address at the 95th commencement of UConn School of Law, urged graduates to be open to compromise. “In the face of everything that divides us, our job as lawyers, as human beings, is to work conscientiously to help people figure out, with all our differences, how to […]
May 30, 2018 | Jeanne Leblanc
New Book Explores Human Rights, Technology – and Open Access
A new book co-edited by UConn Law Professor Molly K. Land examines the rapidly evolving relationship between technology and human rights and takes a suitably innovative approach to distribution — the book is fully open access. On April 19, 2018, Cambridge University Press released “New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice,” edited by Land […]
April 24, 2018 | Jeanne Leblanc
UConn Law Rises Again in U.S. News Rankings
UConn School of Law has moved up 15 points, from 65th to 50th place, over the past two years in the U.S. News & World Report list of Best Law Schools. The newly released rankings for 2019 show a rise of four points, following an 11-point increase in the 2018 rank. Dean Timothy Fisher said […]
March 20, 2018 | Jeanne Leblanc
Remembering Former UConn Law Dean Howard Sacks
Howard R. Sacks, dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law from 1967 to 1972, died Feb. 16, 2018. He was 96. Under his leadership, the law school expanded its clinics, recruited faculty members of national stature, broadened the curriculum to cover more national and international issues, and adopted a more interdisciplinary approach to […]
February 26, 2018 | Jeanne Leblanc
UConn Law Alumnus and ‘Marshall’ Scriptwriter Speaks at Screening
“The only way to get through a bigot’s door is to break it down,” actor Chadwick Boseman, playing Thurgood Marshall, declares at a pivotal point in the film Marshall. The statement elicited a hum of agreement from the audience gathered at Spotlight Theatres in downtown Hartford on January 25, 2018, to celebrate the film and […]
February 1, 2018 | By Erin R. Murphy
UConn Law Community Remembers Professor Robert Whitman
Robert “Bob” Whitman, professor emeritus at UConn School of Law, died Monday, January 22, 2018. Professor Whitman, UConn Law’s longest-serving professor, knew he wanted to teach law by his second year of law school. After a brief professorship at Maryland Law, he accepted a position with Cravath Swaine & Moore, as he felt he’d be a […]
January 23, 2018 | By Alison Swain
Symposium Examines Divisions Over Religious Liberty
A Connecticut Law Review symposium on religious freedom focused on controversies in recent years, including litigation that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 27, 2017 | Tracy Gordon Fox
New Brown Family Campus Center Dedicated
The study of law is a conversation, and the Brown Family Campus Center at UConn School of Law is an ideal place for that conversation to happen, Dean Timothy Fisher said at the dedication of the new café and gathering place on Oct. 18, 2017. Student Gideon Asemnor ‘18 saw a multitude of conversations begin […]
October 20, 2017 | Jeanne Leblanc
‘Incubator’ Lawyers Making Legal Help Affordable
'We see an enormous need for legal assistance at a reasonable cost, particularly among people who don’t qualify for legal aid but can’t afford standard legal fees.'
September 26, 2017 | Jeanne Leblanc