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Paul Chill

Paul Chill has been teaching at UConn Law School since 1988 and currently serves as its Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Professor Chill has supervised clinical programs focusing on child protection, civil rights, disability, and mental health law, and has regularly taught non-clinical courses on torts and legal ethics. Before joining the faculty, he was a plaintiff's employment litigator with the New Haven law firm of Garrison, Kahn, Silbert & Arterton. From 1993-98, Chill also served as a part-time state magistrate, presiding in small claims and motor vehicle matters. A 1979 graduate of Wesleyan University, Chill received his law degree from UConn in 1985. Between college and law school, he spent three years as a state youth services officer, working with the most serious juvenile offenders.

Chill has received broad recognition for his clinical teaching and advocacy on behalf of parents and families. In 1998, he was named one of "Ten Lawyers and Judges Who Made a Difference" in Connecticut that year for his work as lead counsel in a lawsuit that led to systemic reform of the state's juvenile court system. In 1999, he received the Connecticut Law Review Award for excellence in legal scholarship and service to the legal community. In 2006, he was appointed to the newly-formed State Commission on Child Protection, upon which he continues to serve. His writings include a treatise, The Law of Child Abuse and Neglect in Connecticut (1997), a complete mock trial published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and several shorter publications, including a law review article on the procedural impact of emergency removal in child protective proceedings.

Recent Courses

• Legal Profession (Fall 2008)
• Recent Cases (Spring 2008)
• Recent Cases (Spring 2007)
• Recent Cases (Spring 2006)