School of Law

Law School Community Moves Online

Near the end of three years of rigorous study, UConn Law student Louanne Cooley was looking forward to finishing her final semester and graduating. The Covid-19 pandemic upended everything, and suddenly the future felt far less certain. “Some bar exams are postponed, and who knows what it will all mean for future jobs,” Cooley said. […]

Q&A: Coronavirus and Connecticut Taxes

UConn School of Law Prof. Richard Pomp provides some insight on how the coronavirus pandemic might affect Connecticut's state and local revenues (hint: it's not a pretty picture).

Professor Jessica Rubin

Professor Jessica Rubin Wins Teaching Award

Professor Jessica Rubin will receive the 2020 Perry Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award. Rubin is the director of the Legal Practice Program and of the Animal Law Clinic at the UConn School of Law. She is a widely recognized expert in animal law and was instrumental in creating Desmond’s Law, which allows Connecticut courts to […]

An electronic sign reading "US Border Closed" at the country's border with Canada.

Q&A: What COVID-19 Means For Immigration

UConn Law Prof. Valeria Gomez talks about the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has already changed the U.S. immigration system.

Starr Hall at the UConn School of Law campus

UConn Names Eboni S. Nelson As New Dean of Law School

UConn has named Eboni S. Nelson as the new dean of the School of Law.

Q&A: Coronavirus and Health Insurance

UConn Law's John A. Cogan Jr. explains what people should expect from their health insurance as the coronavirus pandemic evolves.

UConn Law students in campus quad

UConn Law Rises to 50 in U.S. News Ranking

UConn School of Law, the top-ranked public law school in the Northeast, has risen to a rank of 50 in the U.S. News & World Report list of Best Law Schools. “While no ranking can capture the full strengths of a law school, we are proud of the steps we have taken to continue improving outcomes […]

Moot Court Competition Brings Out the Best

Arguing a case before three distinguished jurists was the “the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my academic career,” said Abby Booth ’22, after she and Sarah Wylie ’22 won the 2020 Alva P. Loiselle Moot Court Competition at the UConn School of Law. The final session of the annual competition, which gives first-year law […]

Connecticut Supreme Court Visits UConn Law

UConn Law students got an intimate look at how Connecticut’s highest court conducts business when the Connecticut Supreme Court heard two cases at the UConn School of Law in Hartford on February 27, 2020. The seven-justice panel, sitting en banc before a large crowd in the Reading Room of William F. Starr Hall, consisted of […]

Hugh Macgill, former law school dean who died recently, in an archival photo sitting in his office.

UConn Law Community Remembers Former Dean Hugh Macgill

Hugh Macgill, who served on the UConn Law faculty for more than 40 years, 10 of them as dean, was a transformative leader of the UConn School of Law.