School of Law
Asylum Clinic Honored for Work With Detained Asylum-Seekers
The Asylum and Human Rights Clinic at UConn School of Law has won the 2017 Light of Liberty Award from the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center for its work with immigrants seeking asylum. For the past two years, the clinic has organized the Immigration Detention Service Project, sending a team of law students, social work students, […]
Law Students Teach High School Students Constitutional Law
Hartford high school students came to UConn School of Law on April 27, 2017, to present their final arguments in a moot court case about a cell phone search and a student’s rap song. Arguments in the hypothetical case, involving the Fourth and First Amendments, were the culmination of a program offered through the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional […]
Graduates Lauded at 2017 UConn Law Commencement
Author and journalist Emily Bazelon delivered the keynote address to a celebratory crowd of graduates and their families on May 21, 2017, at the 94th commencement at UConn School of Law. “Get to know people whose lives have been ensnared by crime, the victims and the perpetrators. Often they’re not as different from each other […]
Op-ed: UK’s Plan to Deny Terrorists ‘Safe Spaces’ Online Would Make us Less Safe
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposal wrongly assumes that eliminating online hate and extremism would reduce real-world violence.
Human Rights: Corporations’ Newest Frontier
A Conversation with Business and Human Rights Professor Caroline Kaeb An interest in international law, coupled with work at the United Nations specializing in labor rights and refugee issues, fostered a passion for human rights in UConn Professor Caroline Kaeb. But as she delved deeper into her graduate work and the solutions to the many […]
Project Designed to Help Debtors Fight Back in Court
A UConn Law professor is launching a project that aims to help low- and moderate-income individuals deal successfully with the legal consequences of debt.
Law Students Get Involved in Legislative Process
Poised in her business suit and prepared with her research, Kara Zarchin ’18 adjusted her microphone in a hearing room at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford and began her testimony. She spoke to state representatives and senators on the legislature’s Committee on Children in support of Senate Bill 397, which would create an independent ombudsman […]
Retired Judge Shira Scheindlin Speaks on Race and Policing
From the enforcement of slavery laws to recent shootings of young, unarmed black men, policing in the United States has always targeted and punished racial minorities disproportionately, retired Judge Shira A. Scheindlin told an audience Tuesday at UConn School of Law. Scheindlin, the 2017 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar, traced the history of racial bias in […]
Graduate School Applications and Rankings on the Rise
Applications to graduate programs at UConn are on the upswing, while several of the programs rose in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
UConn Group to Spend Spring Break Assisting Asylum Applicants
A team led by UConn Law's Asylum and Human Rights Clinic will spend the break at a detention facility offering free legal help and social work assessments and support to female detainees from Central America.