Achievement Gap
On November 1, Professor Richard Wilson will chair a meeting of the Connecticut State Legislature's Task Force on the Achievement Gap. In 2010, the legislature established a nine-member task force to study, monitor, and consider effective ways to close the achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic student groups in Connecticut.
Professor Wilson is the Gladstein Chair, Professor of Anthropology and Law and Director of the Human Rights Institute at UConn. He is the author of numerous works on human rights, truth commissions and international criminal tribunals, including Maya Resurgence in Guatemala (1995) and The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (2001) and the edited or co-edited books Low Intensity Democracy (1993), Human Rights, Culture and Context (1997), Culture and Rights (2001), Human Rights in Global Perspective (2003), Human Rights and the ‘War on Terror’ (2005) and Humanitarianism and Suffering: the mobilization of empathy (2008, Cambridge University Press).
Recent Homepage Highlights
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On February 15, Professor Dalié Jiménez will present "Exploring the Emergence of Finance Companies" at the Bankruptcy Success Modeling Conference at the UCLA School of Law.
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On February 9, Professor Hillary Greene will present 'The Role of the Competition Community in Promoting Innovation" at an international conference at Nagoya University entitled International Issues Relating to a Pro-Innovation Patent System and Competition Policy.
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Members of the Law School community are invited to a Lunar New Year Celebration on Wednesday, February 13. RSVP is required.
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On February 11, Professor Alexandra Lahav will be a featured speaker at "The New Class Action Landscape," a continuing legal education course being offered by the Boston Bar Association.
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The Law School will return to normal operations on Tuesday, February 12. Classes will resume as scheduled.
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On February 9, Richard Wilson will deliver a keynote address at a conference on "Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights: Framing the Field" at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.
