Rachel Reeves

Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Field Placement and Pro Bono Programs

Education/Professional Certification

JD, University of Maine School of Law
BS, University of Southern Maine

Biography

Professor Rachel Reeves is an experienced field placement director and teacher and a committed advocate for expanded access to justice initiatives that benefit underserved individuals and communities. She directs the law school’s field placement and pro bono programs and teaches the Individual Field Placement Seminar as well as the New York Pro Bono Scholars Field Placement Seminar. Additionally, she supervises a pro bono restraining order project at the New Britain Superior Court, which allows UConn Law students to assist victim survivors of domestic violence. Professor Reeves is admitted to practice in Connecticut, Maine’s state and federal courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is a member of the Connecticut Access to Justice Commission and the Connecticut Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee.

A native of Maine, Professor Reeves is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law. She began her career in Portland, Maine with Norman, Hanson & DeTroy’s litigation group. Before joining the clinical faculty at UConn Law, she taught for almost a decade in the field placement program at the University of Maine School of Law. In addition to her oversight of that program, Professor Reeves led Maine Law’s Rural Lawyer Project, a collaboration that worked toward alleviating the widening justice gap in Maine’s rural communities.