Award Winners Announced
UConn's Alumni Association has announced that Chris Murphy '02 is the 2011 recipient of the Graduate of the Last Decade Award (G.O.L.D.). The G.O.L.D. award is given to a UConn graduate from the last decade who has demonstrated outstanding service and accomplishment. Congressman Murphy is serving his third term representing Connecticut's 5th District. Prior to being elected to Congress, Murphy served for eight years in the Connecticut General Assembly. He serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee and its Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee. He also serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and its Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform and Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives Subcommittees.
Phillip I. Blumberg, dean and professor of law and business, emeritus, will receive the Association's Honorary Alumni Award. Blumberg served as dean at the Law School from 1974 through 1984 and has been a member of the faculty since his arrival in 1974. In addition to his service as dean, Blumberg has been the author of several books including his most recent, Repressive Jurisprudence in the Early American Republic: The First Amendment and the Legacy of English Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Blumberg has been a generous donor to and advocate for the university. He has endowed two scholarships for students and two professorships, one of which bears his name and the other that of his wife, Chief Justice (ret.) Ellen Ash Peters.
Recent Homepage Highlights
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Professor Jessica Rubin will be teaching US law and legal writing for the Open Society Foundation at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Rubin teaches legal research and writing in the Lawyering Process program at the Law School.
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On June 18, Professor Sara Bronin will make a presentation at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association on "Legal Tools to Address Climate Change" at a panel discussion entitle "Following the Path of the Storm: Legal and Legislative Challenges in Addressing Rising Sea Levels on the Connecticut Coastline."
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On June 18, Professor Mark W. Janis will lecture on "Freedom of Religion and European Human Rights Law" at the University of Oxford, England.
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On June 17, Professor Alexandra Lahav will speak at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) where she will comment on the proposed changes to the Federal rules of civil procedure.
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On June 17, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the twenty-third annual Summer Tax Institute at University of California - Davis.
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Jennifer Brooks-Crozier '12 is the author of "Put Up Your Dukes: The Fight Over Commonality in the Era of Wal-Mart v. Dukes" (19 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 711 (2013)).
