School of Law

An-Ping Hsieh

An-Ping Hsieh Joins UConn Law as Visiting Professor

An-Ping “Ping” Hsieh brings 33 years experience as a practicing lawyer, 23 of those as a senior in-house counsel at United Technologies and Hubbell Incorporated, to a new position at UConn School of Law: visiting professor from practice. His leap from the business world to university life may look bigger than it feels subjectively to […]

students from Southeast University in classroom with Professor David Woods at UConn School of Law

New Program Introduces Students from China to U.S. Law, Culture

Eleven law students from China are spending six months at UConn School of Law, studying the U.S. legal system and experiencing American culture under a new partnership between UConn and Southeast University in Nanjing, China. After completing introductory courses with Professor David Woods, the students will join the rest of the student body when classes begin at […]

The American Law Institute logo

Professor Alexandra Lahav Elected to American Law Institute

UConn Law Professor Alexandra D. Lahav, an expert in the civil justice system and tort law, has been elected to the American Law Institute, a national, independent organization of judges, lawyers and legal scholars working to improve the law. Lahav’s research in litigation and civil justice draws on perspectives from legal analysis, history, political theory, […]

Large letter entrance UConn sign on route 195. July 24, 2019. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Summertime Blues? Not at UConn

A gallery of beautiful photos from the University of Connecticut during the summer.

A fence topped with razor wire outside York County Detention Center in York, Pa.

UConn ‘Angels’ Bring Legal, Mental Health Aid to Asylum-Seekers

UConn students, faculty members, and alumni from across a range of disciplines come together each year to provide aid to asylum-seekers at two federal detention centers in Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump stands before a portrait of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office.

Op-ed: Trump Wasn’t the First President to Confront the Supreme Court – And Back Down

A conflict between President Andrew Jackson and the U.S. Supreme Court yields lesson for contemporary politics, writes UConn School of Law Professor Bethany Berger.

Colorful arrows. Photo courtesy of Pixabay

OVPR Announces Research Excellence Awards

The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to fuel innovative research, scholarship, and creative endeavors with strong potential for significant extramural funding and/or achievements consistent with the highest standards of accomplishment in the discipline.

A fifty dollar bill under the microscope. (Getty Images)

Government-funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation

A quantitative analysis going back over a period of more than 90 years shows that almost a third of patents in the U.S. rely on federal research funding.

UConn Law Professor Jon Bauer, left, receives a 2019 Law Enforcement Award from John Durham '75 JD, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut with John Hughes, chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, and Assistant United States Attorney Jessica Soufer '11 JD of the office’s Affirmative Enforcement and Civil Rights Unit.

A Law Professor’s Long Campaign for Justice in Bar Admissions

UConn Law Professor Jon Bauer has argued for decades that asking applicants to the Connecticut bar about their mental health diagnoses was discriminatory and a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the 1990s, his Civil Rights Clinic brought a lawsuit that resulted a federal court settlement requiring the bar examining committee to stop […]

Jonathan Donovan '20 JD assists Jessica Rubin, director of the Animal Law Clinic, in using the new case management system that he and fellow students in a new Technology and Law Practice class devised for the clinic. (Camille Chill/UConn Photo)

New Class Helps Law Students Improve Their Technology Skills

Students in the class developed real technical solutions to help both a legal services agency and the law school’s Animal Law Clinic.