March 2021

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  • New leadership for diversity initiatives
    4/25/25
    Building on an intensive focus, especially in the last two years, the School of Law’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is moving forward with new leadership and growing resources.
  • Q&A with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team
    4/25/25
    The law school’s DEI initiatives have always been collaborative, but they’ll be led forward through the combined efforts of Professor Luis Chiesa, the new vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Program Coordinator Amber Melvin ’13. We asked them to reflect on the work ahead and the opportunities it represents.
  • Clinic students speak up for the voiceless
    4/25/25
    People incarcerated at Connecticut’s Danbury Federal Correctional Institution–a population at particular risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic–have found an advocate in the law school’s Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic. Clinic students are monitoring conditions at the prison, following the settlement of a class-action lawsuit in federal court.
  • A hard look at defamation and privacy law
    4/25/25
    Sometimes judges disagree and over time case law gets complicated.