Carol Ann Weisbrod

Carol Weisbrod came to the University of Connecticut in 1977 and is the present holder of the Ellen Ash Peters chair. Professor Weisbrod graduated from Columbia Law School in 1961 and worked for the American Jewish Congress, the New Haven Redevelopment Agency and the Yale Law School before entering law teaching. Professor Weisbrod is the author of The Boundaries of Utopia (1980); Butterfly, the Bride (1999); Emblems of Pluralism (2002); Grounding Security: Family, Insurance and the State (2006). She is co-author of a Family Law Casebook (with Teitelbaum and Harris). She has published many law journal articles in such areas as political theory, legal history and family law. She teaches contracts, commercial law, family law and church and state and has in recent years also taught U.S. Law for foreign students and a seminar on Religion, Risk and Responsibility, developed in connection with the school's Insurance Law Center.