On February 7, Associate Dean Darcy Kirk will be the featured speaker for the New Orleans Association of Law Libraries meeting. Kirk is currently serving as president of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Dean Kirk directs the law library, information systems and teaches Advanced Legal Research and Higher Education Law. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her law degree from Boston College. Dean Kirk also earned both her MLS and MBA from Simmons College. Before joining the law faculty in 1996, Dean Kirk worked at Harvard University's Widener Library, she served in several positions at the Boston College Law Library and served as the Associate Law Librarian for Public Services at Georgetown University Law Center.




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  • The Law School's Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic provides students with the unique opportunity to counsel Connecticut's innovators on an extensive range of intellectual property and business law issues.

  • 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.

  • It's not too late for Summer Term! The Law School offers classes in both June and July sessions. Registration is now open for the July session.

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

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