Clinical Opportunities
Clinics & Experiential Learning
The Law School provides a broad range of experiential learning opportunities in which students can integrate practical experience with the theory learned in the classroom. These programs enable students to develop crucial lawyering skills, deepen their understanding of how the law and legal institutions operate on the ground, and explore possible career options.
The Lawyering Process Program allows every student to begin to learn and practice key lawyering skills during the first year of law school. During the first semester of the program, students learn how to conduct legal research and write memos and briefs. Between the first and second semesters, an intensive moot court program hones written and oral advocacy skills. The second semester of the Lawyering Process Program focuses on interacting effectively with clients and other lawyers. Students study and practice the fundamental lawyering skills of interviewing, counseling and negotiating. Adjunct faculty members who are practicing lawyers observe students using these skills and provide individual feedback.
Upperclass students can choose among a wide range of in-house clinical programs and externship clinics. Students in clinics engage in real legal practice – interviewing and counseling clients; investigating the facts, researching the law, and formulating case strategies; appearing before courts and agencies in trials and appeals; negotiating agreements – while receiving extensive training and individualized supervision and feedback. These programs help UConn law students develop the skills, judgment, and values necessary to successful law practice, while providing meaningful and rewarding service to clients in need of legal assistance.
Each clinical course has a limited enrollment, to ensure that students receive effective supervision and feedback. Some clinics and externship opportunities require completion of the Student Practice form prior to participation. No student may be enrolled in more than one clinic (including in-house clinical programs, partnership programs, externship clinics, and individual externships) during the same academic term. With permission of both instructors, a student may participate in Advanced Clinic Fieldwork in one clinic while enrolled in another clinic.
- Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
- Criminal Clinic
- Tax Clinic
- Asylum and Human Rights Clinic
- Mediation Clinic
Affiliated Non-Profit Organizations
- LGBT Civil Rights - Jamie Mills
- Judicial Clerkship - Lewis Kurlantzick
- Legislative Clerkship - Cornelius O'Leary
- Administrative Clerkship - Elliot Prescott
- Environmental Law - Roger Reynolds
- State's Attorney's Clinic - Michael Gailor and James Turcotte
- Poverty Law - Royal Stark
- Center for Energy and Environmental Law Externship Clinic - Joseph MacDougald
Semester in Washington D.C. Program
The Law School provides a broad range of experiential learning opportunities in which students can integrate practical experience with theory learned in the classroom.
Graduate Earns Fellowship
Lahny Silva '07 is the recipient of a 2009 William H. Hastie Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). The award provides an opportunity for lawyers of color to prepare for a career in law teaching and is named after the former lawyer, teacher, jurist and civil rights advocate who championed the importance of high quality legal education.
Lahny Silva '07 is the recipient of a 2009 William H. Hastie Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
The Deal Professor
Professor Steven Davidoff writes as The Deal Professor on DealBook, a feature in the New York Times Business section.
Professor Steven Davidoff writes as The Deal Professor on DealBook, a feature in the New York Times Business section.
Janis Elected to ILA Committee
Professor Mark Weston Janis has been elected by the International Law Association's Executive Council to serve as one of three American members on the ILA's International Human Rights Committee. The ILA , headquartered in London with about fifty national and regional branches, was founded in 1873 and is the oldest international law non-governmental organization.
Professor Mark Weston Janis has been elected by the International Law Association's Executive Council to serve on the ILA's International Human Rights Committee.
Wilf and Students Meet WIPO Officials
On May 18-20, Professor Steven Wilf and three law students, Tarae Howell '10, Brooke Penrose '10 and Rebecca Ullman '10, will meet with officials of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva to discuss the international copyright regulation of creative industries.
On May 18-20, Professor Steven Wilf, Tarae Howell '10, Brooke Penrose '10 and Rebecca Ullman '10, will meet with officials of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva to discuss the international copyright regulation of creative industries.
Berger on Tribal Sovereignty
The Government and Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut Legislature
will host an
Informational Forum on Tribal Sovereignty
Monday, May 18 at 2:00 pm
Room 1E
Invited guests include:
Richard Blumenthal
Attorney General, State of Connecticut
Bethany Berger
Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law
On May 18, Professor Bethany Berger will comment on tribal sovereignty at an information forum for the Connecticut legislature.
McCoy Appointed Director
Professor Patricia A. McCoy, a top national expert on financial services regulation, has been chosen to head UConn Law School’s Insurance Law Center, the only insurance law center in the country.
Professor Patricia A. McCoy, a top national expert on financial services regulation, has been chosen to head the Insurance Law Center, the only insurance law center in the country. Listen to Professor McCoy talk about fiscal literacy on WNPR's Where We Live.
Pomp on Sales and Use Tax
On May 15, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the 32nd Annual Advanced State & Local Tax Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. The conference is being co-sponsored by the ABA Tax Section's State and Local Tax Committee.
On May 15, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the 32nd Annual Advanced State & Local Tax Institute at Georgetown University Law Center.
Transfer Applicants:
Read more about transferring to UConn Law.
UConn Law offers admission to transfer students. Applicants are considered for both the day and evening programs. Application deadline: July 1.
Cherie Blair Delivers Lecture
2009 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar
Cherie Blair
Noted Human Rights Lawyer and
On May 1 Cherie Blair, noted human rights lawyer and campaigner for women's equality, delivered the 2009 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar lecture.
