Anna VanCleave
Cyber Chaos at the Border: Navigating Competing and Conflicting International Cybercrime Laws
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Laura Jordan ’96 will be honored Wednesday, March 4 at the Greenwich Country Club with a Women Who Inspire Award. These awards were established to recognize and celebrate outstanding women in the community who have excelled in philanthropic, professional, and volunteer pursuits.
In this release, Dinamary Horvath ’08 shares her journey from growing up as a first-generation Dominican American in New York to navigating law, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurship. She reflects on moments of self-doubt, being “the only one” in many professional spaces, and balancing career with motherhood, shaping her leadership philosophy and fueling her determination to build a career on her own terms.
Nancy Kennedy ’05 is being honored with the Connecticut Bar Association’s 2026 Ladder Award for outstanding mentorship and service in the legal profession. The award will be presented at the Bar Association’s 2026 Pathways to Leadership for Women Lawyers event on Thursday, March 5 at the Aqua Turf Club.
Cindy Cieslak ’12 was appointed as Town Attorney by the Enfield Town Council. She will serve a two-year term advising town officials on legal matters. “I look forward to serving the Town Council and I am grateful for this opportunity,” Cieslak said in a statement.
Miguel de Figueiredo publishes Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Search and Seizure, 138 HARV. L. REV. 1959 (2025)
Professor Leslie Levin was mentioned in a Law.com article concerning the DOJ’s continued appeal regarding President Trump’s law firm executive orders.
Professor Leslie Levin authored an article on State Court Report discussing the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Webster v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline and the Montana Supreme Court’s decision in In re Knudsen. Levin argues that the Texas decision effectively strips the Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the authority to pursue grievances against executive branch lawyers, and that the decision was wrongly decided as a matter of law and policy.
Professor Sachin Pandya has co-authored an amicus brief in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock. The case addresses whether workers who deliver goods locally that travel in interstate commerce, but who do not transport the goods across borders, can avoid mandatory arbitration for wage claims under the exemption in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act.
Professor Anna VanCleave co-authored an op-ed in CT Mirror discussing the push to expand parole eligibility for individuals who have committed crimes as young adults and the scientific basis supporting it.
VanCleave was also asked to comment on House Bill 5306 and its rigorous evidentiary standards. The bill, if passed, would allow judges to reduce sentences for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or human trafficing if that abuse contributed to their crime.
Anna VanCleave publishes Prison Banking, 112 CAL. L. REV. 1699 (2024)
Join us on March 24 for “Cyber Chaos at the Border: Navigating Competing and Conflicting International Cybercrime Laws,” a two-hour roundtable event examining the legal challenges at the intersection of cybercrime and international law.
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This roundtable discussion, part of the In Conversation series, will consider the present and future role of the states in developing and maintaining democratic values and institutions.
Laura Jordan ’96 will be honored Wednesday, March 4 at the Greenwich Country Club with a Women Who Inspire Award. These awards were established to recognize and celebrate outstanding women in the community who have excelled in philanthropic, professional, and volunteer pursuits.
In this release, Dinamary Horvath ’08 shares her journey from growing up as a first-generation Dominican American in New York to navigating law, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurship. She reflects on moments of self-doubt, being “the only one” in many professional spaces, and balancing career with motherhood, shaping her leadership philosophy and fueling her determination to build a career on her own terms.
Nancy Kennedy ’05 is being honored with the Connecticut Bar Association’s 2026 Ladder Award for outstanding mentorship and service in the legal profession. The award will be presented at the Bar Association’s 2026 Pathways to Leadership for Women Lawyers event on Thursday, March 5 at the Aqua Turf Club.
Cindy Cieslak ’12 was appointed as Town Attorney by the Enfield Town Council. She will serve a two-year term advising town officials on legal matters. “I look forward to serving the Town Council and I am grateful for this opportunity,” Cieslak said in a statement.
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