Orientation

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Orientation for incoming students will be held on August 27-28, 2009. We look forward to welcoming you to our community! During Orientation, we hope to share with you our passion about the profession you have chosen to enter and to expose you to some of the exciting and diverse experiences which await you in law school and beyond. A great deal of practical information will be communicated during these two days, and we also want to give you a chance to meet and begin to get to know the classmates with whom you will spend the next three or four years. Community service projects and tours will be part of the introduction to Law School life, as will some more light-hearted activities. To prepare for Orientation, we urge you to spend time perusing the Law Schools website and its many programs and activities. We also suggest that you read the student handbook. Although there are no reading assignments in preparation for Orientation, we do have suggestions for enjoyable law-related summer reading.

If you have any questions, please contact Orientation coordinator Claudia Norsworthy.

We look forward to seeing you on August 27th!

2009 Orientation Schedule

Required for all entering day division, evening division, LLM, and exchange students, except where indicated

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27

2:30 - 3:00 Registration (DAY DIVISION ONLY) Tent
3:00 - 5:00 Library/IT Introduction, Photo IDs & Parking Passes (DAY DIVISION ONLY)
Library and IT staff		 Library
4:30 - 5:00 Registration (EVENING DIVISION, LL.M. AND EXCHANGE ONLY)

Tent
5:00 - 5:30 Campus Tour (DAY DIVISION ONLY)
4:45 - 6:00 Library/IT Introduction, Photo IDs & Parking Passes (EVENING DIVISION ONLY)
Library and IT staff		 Library
5:30 - 6:30 Pizza and Soda Tent
6:30 - 6:50 Welcome
Karen DeMeola ’96, Assistant Dean for Admissions & Student Finance
Jeremy Paul, Dean & Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr., Professor of Real Property Law		 Starr Hall Reading Room
6:50 - 7:00 Orientation Overview
Anne Dailey, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Evangeline Starr Professor of Law
7:00 - 7:45 Introduction to Legal Reasoning and the Law School Classroom
Bethany Berger, Professor of Law
7:45 - 8:00 Pro Bono -- Professor Jon Bauer
8:00 - 8:15 Break
8:15 - 8:45 Distinguished Alumnus Speaker
Rafael A. Santiago ’83, Managing Member, Santiago Law Group, LLC; President, University of Connecticut Law School Foundation, Inc.		 Starr Hall Reading Room
8:45 SBA President -- Gabriel J. Vidoni
9:30 - Gathering (OPTIONAL) Hartford

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee (OPTIONAL FOR EVENING DIVISION) Tent
9:00 - 12:00 Community Service Projects and Tours (OPTIONAL FOR EVENING DIVISION)
 Various
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (OPTIONAL FOR EVENING DIVISION) Tent
1:30 - 2:15 Keynote Address
The Honorable Joette Katz '77, Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court		 Starr Hall Reading Room
2:15 - 3:15 The Road Ahead (academic)
Paul Chill ’85, Clinical Professor of Law
3:15 - 4:00 Legal Ethics is Not an Oxymoron
Mark Dubois ’77, Chief State Disciplinary Counsel, Lecturer in Law
4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 4:30 Director of Student Services -- Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown
4:30 - 5:30 Law School Life: Community and Professionalism in the Classroom and Beyond
Susan Schmeiser, Professor of Law, Moderator
5:30 - UConn Law School Foundation Barbecue and Party Tent

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch with Faculty Advisors (DAY DIVISION ONLY) Starr Hall Reading Room
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner with Faculty Advisors (EVENING DIVISION ONLY) Starr Hall Reading Room

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

12:30 - 1:30 Student Organization Fair and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Social (OPTIONAL) Starr Hall Reading Room

 

UCONN CO-OP BOOKSTORE HOURS

Week Before Classes:

  • August 24 - 27: 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
  • August 28: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • August 29 (Sat.): 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • September 5 (Sat.): 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Regular Hours:

  • Monday – Thursday 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
  • Friday 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Closed Weekends and Holidays

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