Event Services

Please join us for a lecture and reception honoring Julia Simon-Kerr’s appointment as the Evangeline Starr Professor of Law. In recognition of a pioneer woman attorney and judge who was the sister of William F. Starr. Judge Starr’s 1990 bequest created the Starr Trust in honor of her brother. The first woman graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, Evangeline Starr was the second woman to serve as a judge in Washington state. She was a justice of the peace and then a district judge for 29 years. Judge Starr was active in many civic organizations and was truly a pioneer woman attorney: she served on the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women and the Seattle chapter of NOW was organized in her chambers in 1970, the year she retired. The Evangeline Starr professorship will recognize achievement and promise in scholarship. RSVP by September 28. Link coming soon! If you require a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact lawevents@uconn.edu or 860-570-5151 at least 5 days in advance.

Register for the Summit

Join us! Be part of a growing community focused on advancing clean energy, developing the workforce of the future and creating a healthier, more sustainable path forward for us all.

Students from all areas of study are critical to these important conversations and their registration fees are complimentary.

Join us for coffee (& cookies) and conversation. Our goal for our Coffee with a Cop program is to break down the barriers between police officers and our community. Stop by to meet some of our UConn officers as well as some of our local community officers.  

Register for the Clean Energy Fair Here

Note: register for only the Engagement Fair or the full Summit. Student participation is welcome and encouraged.

The Center for Career Development has many resources available to students, including meeting with a career coach who can help you prepare for this engagement fair.

Join Eric Glover, Campus Recruiter at The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, to learn more about the agency and:

• Internships for current students
• Entry-level positions in rotational programs for Fall 2023/Spring 2024 graduates

He’ll be covering the following programs:

• Summer Internship Program (open to undergraduate and graduate students from all types of majors who are returning to school during the Fall 2024 semester)
• Leadership Fellow Program (open to graduate students graduating between December 2023 and June 2024)
• Engineering & Architecture Associates Program (open to undergraduate and graduate students graduating with a degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related discipline between September 2023 and May 2024)
• Major Capital Projects Associates Program (open to undergraduate and graduate students graduating with a degree in Accounting, Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, History, Law, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline before July 2024)

Join the virtual info session to connect with the employer and learn about potential opportunities. Register here.

The Connecticut Law Review invites you to their 2023 symposium: Interrogating Haaland v. Brackeen: Family Regulation, Constitutional Power, and Tribal Resilience The litigation that led to Haaland v. Brackeen threatened to take down not only the Indian Child Welfare Act, but vast swaths of federal Indian policy and federal law. Instead, the Supreme Court’s decision left ICWA unscathed and affirmed the constitutional relationship between tribal nations and the United States. But threats to Native families and tribal sovereignty continue. Native children continue to be removed from their communities by a market for adoptable children. A handful of states and interest groups continue to seek ways to challenge tribal authority and federal laws that support it. And because the Supreme Court held that the Brackeen plaintiffs lacked standing to raise their equal protection challenges to ICWA, those claims can be raised another day. Leading scholars, attorneys, and tribal leaders will explore these and other issues raised by the decision in this symposium.

Link to Haaland v. Brackeen

AGENDA:

Opening Remarks

• Symposium Editors’ Welcome and Introduction
• Welcome from Dean Eboni Nelson
• Welcome from Editor-in-Chief Gretchen Yelmini

Panel 1

• Moderator: Casey Corvino, Symposium Editor
• Bethany Berger, Wallace Stevens Chair, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Kathryn Fort, Director of Clinics, Director of Indian Law Clinic, Michigan State Law School
• Ian Gershengorn, Partner, Jenner & Block, former Deputy U.S. Solicitor General & Acting Solicitor General
• Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairwoman, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah

Panel 2

• Moderator: Julia Vassallo, Symposium Editor
• Laura Briggs, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, UMass-Amherst
• Gerald Torres, Yale School of the Environment, Yale Law School
• Gregory Ablavsky, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor, Stanford Law School
• Seth Davis, UC Berkeley Law School

Concluding Remarks

RSVP by October 5 at https://www.law.uconn.edu/clr2023

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact lawevents@uconn.edu or 860-570-5151 at least one week prior to the event.