School of Law
Law and Journalism Experience? You’re Covered
'In both professions you are going to meet people who don’t want to talk to you, and having those interviewing skills will allow you to dig deeper,' says Taylor DiChello, Fox 61 reporter and a student at UConn Law.
UConn Venture Development Helps Foster CT Business Opportunities
UConn's Mostafa Analoui sits down with MetroHartford Alliance to discuss how the University's entrepreneurship and venture development programs support business opportunities in the state.
Law Professor Willajeanne McLean Wins CBA Teaching Award
Professor Willajeanne F. McLean, an internationally recognized expert in intellectual property and European law, has won the 2019 Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award from the Connecticut Bar Association. McLean joined the UConn Law faculty in 1991 and served as interim dean from 2012 to 2013. The law school named her a distinguished professor of law in […]
Minor Myers Joins UConn Law Faculty
Minor Myers, a leading expert in corporate law and governance, will join the faculty of UConn School of Law this fall as a tenured professor. Myers is currently a full professor at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches courses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and property. He has also been a visiting […]
Second Circuit Brings Federal Cases to UConn Law
The U.S. Appellate Court for the Second Circuit heard six cases at UConn School of Law on Feb. 4, 2019, delivering a close-up view of the federal courts to hundreds of law students and other spectators. A three-judge panel consisted of UConn Law alumnus Christopher Droney ‘79 presiding, joined by former Yale Law School Dean […]
Law School Panel Explores Innovative Prison Program
Prison reform advocates, lawyers and former inmates met at the UConn School of Law on January 29, 2019, to discuss a Connecticut prison pilot program designed to rehabilitate young adult offenders. “This all really requires a change in mindset about the way we think about prison and justice in Connecticut,” said Scott Erfe, warden of […]
Federal Court To Hold Session At UConn Law
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear oral arguments in six cases, including a terrorism case and a lawsuit over a retracted news story, in a session at UConn School of Law on Feb. 4, 2019. A panel of three of its judges will hear arguments for approximately 20 minutes […]
Richard Robinson ’79, State Supreme Court Chief Justice
The first African-American Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court will be keynote speaker at the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Jan. 24. Read his profile in UConn Magazine.
Law Professor Takes On Double Jeopardy
UConn Law Professor Kiel Brennan-Marquez sees Gamble v. United States, a new double jeopardy case recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, as a chance to eliminate a longstanding misuse of the nation’s criminal justice system. The case seeks to overturn the conviction of Terance Gamble on a federal charge of being a felon in […]
UConn in the Conversation
In print, online, and on air, UConn faculty inform public dialogue about the major issues of the day. Here's what they said this year.