School of Law

Howard R. Sacks,

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

The winning team of the 4th Annual Business/Law Negotiation Competition. From left: Brooke Tinnerello '17, UConn law student, Christopher DiGiacomo '18 MBA, and Steven Lin, UConn law student. (Nathan Oldham/UConn photo)

MBA Candidates, Law Students Test Their Skills in a Two-Day Negotiation Challenge

MBA candidate Chris DiGiacomo is accustomed to negotiating project dates and deadlines through his job as a program management specialist at Pratt & Whitney. But after winning the 4th Annual Business/Law Negotiation Competition on January 27 at UConn Law School with two teammates, he admits he had to lie down. “My brain was exhausted,” he […]

February 9, 2018 | Claire Hall

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

Robert "Bob" Whitman

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

25th Annual PILG Auction Raises Money and Spirits

High-spirited bidding contests erupted over a go-cart outing with Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola, UConn women’s basketball tickets and a week of parking in Dean Timothy Fisher’s space, along with a host of other items at the 25th annual Public Interest Law Group Auction. The live and silent auction on Nov. 10, 2017, packed the Reading […]

November 20, 2017 | By Jeanne Leblanc

Cover of Anne Dailey's book, Law and the Unconscious

Law Professor’s Book Connects Psychoanalysis and the Law

Anne Dailey addresses popular misconceptions about psychoanalysis, including the idea that psychoanalytic ideas about the unconscious directly conflict with the law’s presumption that each individual, unless insane or coerced, acts upon the basis of free will.

November 13, 2017 | By Jeanne Leblanc

Research & Discovery
Stephen Park (UConn School of Business)

Business Law’s Stephen Park Honored with ‘Distinguished Early Career Faculty’ Award

Business Law Assistant Professor Stephen Park was awarded the Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) at the 2017 annual conference in Savannah, Georgia in August.

November 7, 2017 | Claire Hall

An audience member asks a question at the religious freedom syposium.

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

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 when the campus center opened at the start of the semester. It felt very different from his first year at the law school, when there was only a small cafeteria in the basement of Hosmer Hall and students seemed to disappear right after classes ended, he told the audience at the ceremony. “Starting this semester, there’s been a tremendous change on campus,” he said. “You see students from all walks of life, from different backgrounds, LLMs, JDs, you see them sitting together at the tables, having lunch and discussing tort issues or whatever cold call they got that day,” University President Susan Herbst opened the dedication ceremony with a thank you to the Brown family for generously funding the creation of the campus center in the slate foyer of the Thomas J. Meskill Law Library, facing the main quad. Joe Brown ’16 spoke on behalf of the family, welcoming the center as a place where students have already begun learning and sharing. Before the ceremony, Joe’s father, Jay Brown, discussed the 2008 financial meltdown at a presentation in the Reading Room in William F. Starr Hall with UConn Law Professor James Kwak, author of Thirteen Bankers and Economism. Brown, the retired CEO of MBIA, remembered the most harrowing turns of the crisis and the measures that brought it under control. The dedication ceremony followed, with a reception afterward in the new campus center featuring food catered by the university’s Dining Services team, which operates the café. The café opened Aug. 28 to a steady flow of students, faculty and staff gathering for coffee, meals, conversations and study sessions. In September it served triple the number of customers served in the Hosmer cafeteria in September 2016, according to Retail Operations Manager Ethan Haggerty. The café is open from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, providing meals for Day and Evening Division students alike. The menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, pizza, snacks and baked goods. Customers have been enthusiastic about the café and the rest of the campus center. First-year students Kileigh Nassau and Jesse Sahani sit there every day and refer to it as their “office.” Every friendship they’ve made has started there, they said. Tyler Conklin ’18 said the center brings faculty and students together. “I have seen the dean here, and it really breaches the gap,” he said. “It fosters a sense of community on campus that did not exist before.”

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

Attorney Santolo Odierna and unidentified client

‘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

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