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 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 […]
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.
In Memoriam: Hugh Macgill, Former UConn School of Law Dean
Hugh Macgill, who passed away this month, was a transformative leader of the UConn School of Law during his time as dean.
Law School to Honor Late Professor Olimpiad Ioffe
The late Olimpiad Ioffe, a distinguished Russian émigré who helped establish the study of international law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, will be celebrated this year to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. Born Jan. 22, 1920 in Ukraine, just before its entry into the U.S.S.R., Ioffe was educated at Leningrad […]
Tax Clinic at UConn Law Helping Contract Workers
The gig economy is creating more questions in regards to IRS payments.
Humane Society Honors Law Professor Jessica Rubin
UConn Law Professor Jessica Rubin was honored by the Connecticut Humane Society with induction into the Gertrude O. Lewis Humanitarian Society on Nov. 9, 2019. Rubin was honored at the Humane Society’s annual Diamonds in the Ruff gala, and was only the fifth person to be inducted into the Humanitarian Society, named after the Connecticut Humane […]
Bryan Stevenson Invokes the Power of Memory
The story of how Bryan Stevenson got an innocent man freed from death row will soon be released as a movie, but Stevenson chose a different story to begin a speech as the 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar at the UConn School of Law. He began with a personal story of racist cruelty from his […]