School of Law
Leslie Levin Wins 2023 UConn Law Teaching Award
The Perry Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award was established in 2016 through the generosity of Perry Zirkel, who graduated from the UConn School of Law in 1976.
Academic Cannabis Symposium Explores Breadth of a Growing Industry
UConn’s two-day conference examined wide-ranging cannabis topics including research, health benefits, entrepreneurship, law, science, recreation, and more
UConn Law’s Tara Cooley Recognized by Animal Legal Defense Fund
Cooley is a teaching fellow who serves as a court-appointed advocate in animal cruelty cases.
Preparing for the Future of Law, From this Summer to the Next Century
UConn School of Law Dean Eboni S. Nelson talks with UConn 360 about the Supreme Court, diversity in law and education, and how UConn Law is preparing for its next 100 years
‘This Clinic Was Everything for Me’
Expungement clinic organized by UConn Law alumna helps provide second chances for people who have served prison sentences
Anne Dailey and Julia Simon-Kerr Named to Professorships
Both professorships are awarded on the basis of scholarship. Dailey's work involves family law, children and the law, constitutional law, and law and psychoanalysis. Simon-Kerr is a leading scholar on evidence.
Graduate Brings Two UConn Law Degrees and Clinical Experience to U.N. Job
Knowledge acquired through the Human Rights and Social Justice LLM program and training in the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic prepared Fatimata Belem for a tough job with the United Nations.
Annual Auction Raises $30,000 for Public Interest Fellowships
Hot items at the auction included tickets for dinner and dancing with the law school deans, Disney Park passes, and a student's painting of the UConn Law library.
Deborah N. Archer to Speak at UConn Law Commencement
Archer is president of the American Civil Liberties Union and co-faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at the New York University School of Law.
Bar Association Honors Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola
The John Eldred Shields Distinguished Professional Service Award honors a member of the Connecticut Bar Association who has performed outstanding service to the legal community and the community at large through or on behalf of the association.