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Richard S. Kay

Richard S. Kay has been on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of law since 1974 and is currently the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law. He earned his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University and holds a Master of Arts degree in Economics from Yale University. He was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school he was a clerk on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He teaches basic and advanced courses in constitutional law, comparative law and commercial law. He is Treasurer of the American Comparative Law Society and an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He is a past chair of the Constitutional Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Kay has been an invited speaker and panelist at numerous academic conferences in the United States and abroad. He is the co-editor of European Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2d. ed. 2000) and the author of about fifty articles and reviews on constitutional law, constitutional theory and comparative law.

Recent Courses

• Secured Transactions (Spring 2009)
• European Human Rights (Fall 2008)
• Evidence (Fall 2008)
• Comparative Constitutional Law (Spring 2008)
• Contracts (Fall 2007)
• Secured Transactions (Fall 2007)