Homepage Highlights Archive
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On April 16, Professor Peter Kochenburger will be a speaker at "Cover Yourself (and Your Client): Critical Insurance Considerations When Prosecuting or Defending Civil Actions," a continuing legal education course offered by the Law School and the Connecticut Bar Association.
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On April 12 and 13, Associate Dean Steven Wilf will participate in the 2013 Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable at Drake Law.
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On April 12, Professor Richard Wilson will present "The Crime of Incitement: Propaganda and Media in International Criminal Tribunal Judgments" at the University of Virginia School of Law.
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On April 11, Professor Richard Wilson will present at a talk at the University of Virginia's Russian and East European Studies Center on his book, Writing History in International Criminal Trials.
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On April 8, Professor David Thaw debated Professor Orin Kerr of George Washington Law on the Computer Fraud Abuse Act at a event sponsored by the Yale Law Federalist Society.
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On April 8, Professor Peter Siegelman will be at Quinnipiac University to present "The Questionable Character of the Bar's Character and Fitness Inquiry," a paper he co-wrote with Associate Dean Leslie Levin and Christine Zozula.
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On April 6, Professor Miriam Marton will facilitate and speak at the Symposium on Advancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Asylum Claims conference.
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On April 6, Associate Dean Steven Wilf will be a discussant on historiographical heresy at the "Heretical History: Celebrating the Legacy of Jon Butler" conference at Yale University.
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On April 6, Professor Peter Kochenburger will comment on risk classification issues at the national meeting in Houston of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
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On April 5, Professor Mark W. Janis will serve as one of three judges in a quarter-final round of the Jessup International Law Moot Court competition at the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC.
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On April 5, Associate Dean Leslie Levin will comment on "Building and Maintaining an Ethical Infrastructure" at The Ethical Infrastructure and Culture of Law Firms conference at Hofstra Law.
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On April 4, Librarian Catherine Dunn will present her paper "The New Path for Law Libraries and Government Information" at the 2013 Workshop for Scholarship on Legal Information, and Information Law and Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Professor Sara Bronin is the architect of record on a property in downtown Hartford which will be honored on April 4 with a Connecticut Preservation Award of Merit. The award will be presented by the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation at a ceremony at the State Capitol.
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On April 2, Professor Patricia A. McCoy will present her paper, "The Home Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis: Lessons Learned," at the "Homeownership Built to Last" conference at Harvard Business School.
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In March, Professor Richard Wilson presented "The History and Challenges of Accountability for Genocide and War Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Conversation" at a conference held at the National Humanities Center.
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In March, Professor Angel Oquendo presented his paper, "All for One and One for All: The Divide Between Derivative Suits and Shareholder Class Action," at the Wake Forest Law Review's Business Law Symposium.
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On March 28 and 29, Professor Richard Pomp will serve as a hearing officer at the Multistate Tax Commission in Washington, DC.
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On March 27, Blake L. Ratcliff '08, commissioning editor in international law and national security at Oxford University Press, will be at the Law School to speak with students about careers in International law.
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On April 5, the Law School's Insurance Law Center will present "The Challenge of Retirement in a Defined Contribution World." Economists, legal scholars and government officials will discuss how to better understand the defined contribution paradigm and to manage and regulate its risk.
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Neal Kumar Katyal will be this year's commencement speaker at the Law School's 90th Commencement on May 19. Katyal is the former acting solicitor general of the United States, the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a partner at Hogan Lovells.
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The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey is the 2013 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar. Judge Mukasey served as the 81st Attorney General of the United States from November 2007 to January 2009. Currently, he is a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.
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On March 22-23, Professor Julia Simon-Kerr will participate in the 16th Annual Law, Culture and Humanities conference at the University of London where she will present her paper, "Pious Perjury, Testifying and Systemic Deceit."
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On March 20, representatives from the Affinity Bar Associations of Connecticut will lead a discussion on "Fitting In, But Standing Out" where they will provide insights on how to create a balance between differentiating yourself while conforming to corporate culture. Members of the community are invited to attend.
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The University of Connecticut has been named among the five winners in the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Law School's Asylum and Human Rights Clinic is one of the programs highlighted in the award announcement.
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On March 20, Professor Richard Pomp will be a panelist for "The Annual Big Easy Brawl: The Panelists Go Head-to-Head 'Discussing' Current State and Local Tax Issues" at the 2013 American Bar Association/IPT Advanced Tax Seminars in New Orleans.
