School of Law
Incoming Law Class Brimming with Experience
UConn School of Law welcomed a diverse group of 165 new JD students, including theater majors, engineers, artists and health clinicians, along with 34 LLM students from 15 countries as the 2019-20 academic year began. The incoming JD class consists of 139 Day Division and 26 Evening Division students from 23 states and 100 undergraduate […]
An-Ping Hsieh Joins UConn Law as Visiting Professor
An-Ping “Ping” Hsieh brings 33 years experience as a practicing lawyer, 23 of those as a senior in-house counsel at United Technologies and Hubbell Incorporated, to a new position at UConn School of Law: visiting professor from practice. His leap from the business world to university life may look bigger than it feels subjectively to […]
New Program Introduces Students from China to U.S. Law, Culture
Eleven law students from China are spending six months at UConn School of Law, studying the U.S. legal system and experiencing American culture under a new partnership between UConn and Southeast University in Nanjing, China. After completing introductory courses with Professor David Woods, the students will join the rest of the student body when classes begin at […]
Professor Alexandra Lahav Elected to American Law Institute
UConn Law Professor Alexandra D. Lahav, an expert in the civil justice system and tort law, has been elected to the American Law Institute, a national, independent organization of judges, lawyers and legal scholars working to improve the law. Lahav’s research in litigation and civil justice draws on perspectives from legal analysis, history, political theory, […]
Summertime Blues? Not at UConn
A gallery of beautiful photos from the University of Connecticut during the summer.
UConn ‘Angels’ Bring Legal, Mental Health Aid to Asylum-Seekers
UConn students, faculty members, and alumni from across a range of disciplines come together each year to provide aid to asylum-seekers at two federal detention centers in Pennsylvania.
Op-ed: Trump Wasn’t the First President to Confront the Supreme Court – And Back Down
A conflict between President Andrew Jackson and the U.S. Supreme Court yields lesson for contemporary politics, writes UConn School of Law Professor Bethany Berger.
OVPR Announces Research Excellence Awards
The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to fuel innovative research, scholarship, and creative endeavors with strong potential for significant extramural funding and/or achievements consistent with the highest standards of accomplishment in the discipline.
Government-funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation
A quantitative analysis going back over a period of more than 90 years shows that almost a third of patents in the U.S. rely on federal research funding.
A Law Professor’s Long Campaign for Justice in Bar Admissions
UConn Law Professor Jon Bauer has argued for decades that asking applicants to the Connecticut bar about their mental health diagnoses was discriminatory and a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the 1990s, his Civil Rights Clinic brought a lawsuit that resulted a federal court settlement requiring the bar examining committee to stop […]