News & Information

Press Releases

  • The Connecticut Law Review has recognized Dorrance Sexton, Jr. '68, the editor-in-chief of the first independent Connecticut Law Review, with the 2013 Connecticut Law Review Award.

  • The Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law will host a spring conference, “The Challenge of Retirement in a Defined Contribution World,” on April 5 at its Hartford campus.

  • The Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law will host a spring conference, “The Challenge of Retirement in a Defined Contribution World,” on April 5 at its Hartford campus.

  • The UConn Law Student Bar Association Diversity Committee, in conjunction with Shipman & Goodwin LLP, proudly presents Diversity Week 2013 from March 18-22.

UConn Law Wins

  • Randa Hojaiban '03 has been recognized by the New Britain Bar Foundation with its President's Award for her work serving impoverished children in the local family courts.

  • The Connecticut Law Tribune has recognized Mitchell Pearlman '70 with its Publisher's Award and former dean, Jeremy Paul, with its Service to the Profession Award.

  • Claire Howard '13 has won first place in the Connecticut Bar Association's Labor and Employment Writing Competition for her paper "An Emerging Protected Class: Employment Discrimination in Connecticut and Transgendered Persons."

  • On June 4, Interim Dean Willajeanne F. McLean was presented with the Honorable Robert J. Callahan Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award by the Connecticut Chapter of the Fordham Law Alumni Association. Dean McLean is a 1986 graduate of Fordham Law School.

  • Michelle Pacholec '13 and Megan A. Gentry '15 have been recognized as Outstanding Senior Women during a recent University ceremony honoring academic achievement.

     

  • Chad Landmon '99 has been recognized by the University of Connecticut Honors Program with its 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Faculty in the News

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State Tax Notes:
Amazon to Build Distribution Center in Florida
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Telsey Advisory Group:
Senate Expected to Vote Monday on Online Sales Taxes
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Homepage Highlights

  • Professor Jessica Rubin will be teaching US law and legal writing for the Open Society Foundation at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Rubin teaches legal research and writing in the Lawyering Process program at the Law School.

  • On June 18, Professor Sara Bronin will make a presentation at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association on "Legal Tools to Address Climate Change" at a panel discussion entitle "Following the Path of the Storm: Legal and Legislative Challenges in Addressing Rising Sea Levels on the Connecticut Coastline."

  • On June 18, Professor Mark W. Janis will lecture on "Freedom of Religion and European Human Rights Law" at the University of Oxford, England.

  • On June 17, Professor Alexandra Lahav will speak at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) where she will comment on the proposed changes to the Federal rules of civil procedure.

  • On June 17, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the twenty-third annual Summer Tax Institute at University of California - Davis.

  • Jennifer Brooks-Crozier '12 is the author of "Put Up Your Dukes: The Fight Over Commonality in the Era of Wal-Mart v. Dukes" (19 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 711 (2013)).