School of Law
Otis Elevator Executive Gives Back with Law School Scholarship
Laurie Havanec was just 27 years old when she felt a lump in her neck. It turned out to be cancer and instantly turned her world upside down. She remembers looking at her two-year-old son and thinking she might not get to see him grow up. “That had a huge impact on me personally,” Havanec […]
PILG Auction Offers Fun to Support a Great Cause
A brewery tour, a football signed by the New York Jets and dinner and a Star Wars movie with Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola are among the more than 100 items that will be up for bid on Nov. 1, 2019, at the 27th Annual PILG Auction, a fundraiser to support the work of UConn Law […]
Student Groups Explore Legacy of Columbus Together
On the day commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, students gathered for a program on his complicated legacy. Several of the law school’s cultural affinity groups organized and sponsored Indigenous People’s Day: Community Celebration on Oct. 14, 2019. They came together, to share food and attend a panel discussion featuring Lee Mixashawn […]
300,000 Ways to Do Time with a Federal Crime
Mike Chase '11 JD details on Twitter and a new book some of the more ridiculous ways to run afoul of the law.
Symposium Explores Polarization and Incivility
The United States has left an age of bipartisanship and entered one of extreme polarization, with race once again playing an explosive role, political commentator David Gergen told the audience at a symposium organized by the Connecticut Law Review at the UConn School of Law. “We have left what increasingly is looking like a golden […]
Bryan Stevenson Named 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, is the 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar at UConn School of Law. He will visit the law school on November 7, 2019 to give a public speech. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who […]
Symposium Devoted to Work of Professor Richard Kay
Scholars from around the world gathered at the UConn School of Law to celebrate Professor Richard Kay and his body of work in constitutional law on Friday, September 13, 2019. The conference, entitled “Original Constitutionalist: Reconstructing Richard Kay’s Scholarship,” explored Kay’s extensive works in constitutional interpretation and comparative constitutional law, including his book “The Glorious […]
Alumna Writes History of Black Experience at UConn Law
Constance Belton Green, the first African American woman to graduate from UConn School of Law, has written a history of the law school’s black students and faculty. The 65-page book, “Still We Rise: African Americans at the University of Connecticut School of Law,” traces a history from the founding of the law school in 1921 […]
Meet the Researcher: Richard Ashby Wilson, Law and Anthropology
World events have always shaped Richard Wilson Ashby's research.
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 […]