UConn Law was named as a “Top Law School for Tax Law” by the National Jurist. With course offerings ranging from Taxes and Racism to Multistate Taxation in the New Millenium, and a clinic that offers free legal assistance to low-income taxpayers, UConn Law prepares students for impactful careers in tax law.
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Dinora E. Lopez ’17 Promoted to Executive Vice President
Dinora E. Lopez ’17 is one of six senior leaders to be promoted to Executive Vice President at Liberty Bank. Read the press release here.
Karen LeCuyer ’08 Recognized as 2025 IP Star
Karen LeCuyer ’08 has been included in the final rankings for the 2025 edition of IP STARS, the leading specialist guide for those seeking experienced practitioners of intellectual property law. Read the press release here.
Thomas Wiehl ’13 to Serve as Chairperson of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA)
Thomas Wiehl ’13 was nominated by Governor Ned Lamont to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Read the press release here.
Keisha S. Palmer ’09 Named Finalist in 2025 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards
Robinson+Cole partner Keisha S. Palmer ’09 was named a finalist in 2025 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards. She was selected as a finalist for “Law Firm Ally of the Year.” Read the full press release here.
Molly Land Quoted in LLM Guide
Associate Dean Molly Land was quoted by LLM Guide in an article titled “Looking to Specialize in Human Rights Law in the U.S.? Here’s what to Know.”
Julia Simon-Kerr Publishes “Bending the Rules of Evidence”
Professor Julia Simon-Kerr published “Bending the Rules of Evidence” in the Northwestern University Law Review. The article discusses the “bending” of evidence rules by courts, including the history of this problem and the possibility of its legitimation.
Loftus Becker One of First Amendment Scholars in Amicus Brief
Professor Loftus Becker is one of twenty-two scholars who filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to take up Georgia Ass’n of Club Executives v. Georgia, a case regarding First Amendment issues.
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Investiture of Anya Bernstein as Jesse Root Professor of Law
Bureaucracy gets a bad rap. Illegitimate, unaccountable, grudging, mean—bureaucracy seems to need some extra justification to make it palatable to a democratic society. At the same time, democracy depends on bureaucracy: the decisions elected representatives make have few effects without someone to implement them. And because a steady pace of elections changes the makeup of political coalitions, the democratic decisions of the past need custodians to keep them efficacious and current over time, through change. Drawing on empirical research, this talk clears a place for bureaucracy at the heart of the democratic project. It argues that bureaucracy is the condition of possibility for democratic legitimacy in a modern mass democracy like the United States. It highlights key characteristics and functions that we should preserve, strengthen, and reform. And it explains why an attack on the administrative state is actually an attack on representative democracy itself.