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Lectures and Conferences

The Burritt Lecture in International Law brings prominent legal scholars to the Law School each semester. Burritt Lecturers include Professors David Kennedy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Joseph Weiler of Harvard Law School, Ruth Wedgwood and James Whitman of Yale Law School, John Bridge and Robert Drury of Exeter University (England), James Boyle of American University, Philippe Sands of the University of London, Dr. Jürgen Basedow, Director of the Max Planck Institute, Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Professor Dr. Eibe Riedel of the University of Mannheim, and Michael W. Gordon, University of Florida.

In cooperation with the student-edited Connecticut Journal of International Law, the Law School has sponsored international law conferences. Since 1995, more than 200 legal scholars have participated in conferences at the Law School. Participants have included leading government officials, jurists and human rights activists from more than 25 countries.

In addition, the International Legal Exchange Programs Office sponsors faculty exchanges with several foreign law schools. Foreign law scholars from Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan and Ukraine have visited and lectured at the Law School.