45 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105
Phone: 860.570.5100; Fax: 860.570.5153
E-mail: admissions@law.uconn.edu; Website: www.law.uconn.edu
As a result of several decades of sustained intellectual and foundational growth, the University of Connecticut School of Law has emerged as one of the leading public law schools in the United States. Because of Connecticut's extraordinary ratio of full-time students to full-time faculty, 75 percent of the advanced courses have 25 or fewer students. An outstanding and accessible faculty; an intensive first-year skills program; a rich and varied curriculum, including more than a dozen legal clinics; four student-edited journals; student organizations active across the spectrum of legal and social concerns; a regular flow of visiting lecturers; and a committed body of graduates throughout the country, combine to make the University of Connecticut a law school of exceptional strength.
The campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is arguably the most beautiful in the United States. The library, completed in 1996, is one of the largest legal research and technology centers in the world, with more than 500,000 volumes housed in the 120,000-square-foot facility.
With its immediate neighbors—the Hartford Seminary, the University of Hartford, the Connecticut Historical Society, and the Connecticut Attorney General's Office—the school is part of an academic enclave in a turn-of-the-century residential neighborhood.
Connecticut was a pioneer in clinical legal education, and our experiential learning opportunities continue to be a distinguishing strength of the school. 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.
Connecticut has a generous student practice rule enabling second- and third-year students, under the supervision of faculty attorneys, to represent clients in any court in our jurisdiction. This experience allows students to gain the practical lawyering skills involved in client intake, case strategy and development, motion practice and oral advocacy, as well as alternate dispute resolution.
Students may participate in our in-house legal clinics or our externship clinics. Clinical offerings include the following areas: asylum and human rights, criminal law (trial and appellate), environmental law, intellectual property, judicial clerkship, legislative clerkship, LGBT civil rights, mediation, poverty law, state's attorney, street law, and taxation. Students can also gain invaluable experience with our two affiliated nonprofit organizations. The Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc., works on behalf of the legal rights of underprivileged children. The Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, Inc., identifies neighborhood problems that typify urban blight and devises strategies to revitalize communities.
The Individual Externship Program offers students an opportunity for experiential learning that is tailored to the students' own interests and their educational and career goals. Hundreds of organizations participate in our externship program.
The Semester in Washington, DC, places selected students in selected federal agencies, legislative offices, or nonprofit groups for one semester of service.
The Intellectual Property Certificate Program exposes participants to a broad curriculum of courses, from classes on patent, trademark, and copyright law to specialized seminars, including those in art law, cyberlaw, and European Union IP law. In addition, our Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic was selected by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to participate in a special clinical program. The Tax Studies Certificate Program affords an opportunity to participate in a supervised writing project, externship, or clinic in the area of tax law. Participants in the certificate program may begin their tax studies in Federal Income Tax in their first year and continue the study of taxation in a variety of courses during the last four semesters of law school. A Human Rights Certificate Program offers students the opportunity to work with world-renowned experts at the law school and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in a demanding and varied interdisciplinary study of global affairs and social justice. The law school has also created a Law and Public Policy Certificate Program, a flexible program in which students may enroll in a diverse collection of courses with faculty at the law school and within the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy.
The Insurance Law Center offers a specialized insurance curriculum with its LLM program, innovative research initiatives on the role of insurance in law and society, conferences and workshops, and the student-edited Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. The Center for Energy and Environmental Law brings together experts from many disciplines to tackle the urgent task of offering and analyzing better ways to meet the world's energy needs and preparing the leaders of tomorrow for the difficult choices that lie ahead.
The law school offers several interdisciplinary programs: JD/LLM in Insurance Law, JD/Master of Business Administration, JD/Master of Public Administration, JD/Master of Public Health, and JD/Master of Social Work.
Law school offerings in environmental law are supplemented by a semester exchange program with Vermont Law School.
The economic and political realities of globalization place new demands on the graduates of the law school. International law occupies an increasingly prominent place in the curriculum, reinforced by the student-edited Connecticut Journal of International Law. The law school has formal and informal study-abroad programs with universities in Aix-en-Provence, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Exeter, Haifa, Leiden, London, Mannheim, Nottingham, Siena, and Tilburg. These relationships bring a wealth of international visitors to the school. Legal scholars have visited and lectured from Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, and Ukraine. The LLM in United States Legal Studies for graduates of foreign law schools provides further opportunity for our students to learn from and study with peers trained in different legal systems.
Connecticut operates a comprehensive career planning office for the benefit of students and alumni. The Career Planning Office is staffed by four attorneys and although all can act as generalists, each has a focused expertise in private sector, public interest, nontraditional, clerkships, and other areas of interest to our students. The school offers a geographically diverse on-campus interview program, extensive individual and group counseling, a resource library, job listings, employment information sessions, and newsletters.
The school holds three off-campus interview programs each fall in Washington, DC; Boston; and New York City, and schedules on-campus interviews throughout the year. In addition, the school participates in several off-site job fairs.
Within six months of graduation, 83.1 percent of the class of 2011 were employed, including 11.6 percent in judicial clerkships.
Selected students may participate in one of four student-edited journals: the Connecticut Law Review, the Connecticut Journal of International Law, the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, and the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal.
The Connecticut Moot Court Board and the Mock Trial Association provide students with the opportunity to practice oral advocacy in intramural and interscholastic competitions. Participants have placed extremely well in regional, national, and international competitions.
The Student Bar Association is the representative student government of the school. It manages an annual budget consisting of funds derived from the student activities fee and university tuition to support the various student organizations and to generally enhance the quality of student life. Under the governance of the Student Bar, a large number of student-run organizations, reflecting the diversity of our students, have active chapters on campus.
The Director of Student Services, Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown, works with students with disabilities in the development and implementation of reasonable accommodations to allow access to the school's physical facilities as well as its educational and extracurricular programs.
Students with disabilities who are considering applying or who have been admitted to the School of Law are invited to tour the campus. Students may contact Dr. Brown (860.570.5130) regarding accommodations.
In accordance with Section 504(a) of the American Bar Association's Standards for Approval of Law Schools, applicants to the law school should understand that there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar. Applicants are therefore encouraged, prior to matriculation, to determine what those requirements are in the states in which the applicant intends to practice. Additional information is available at the website of the National Conference of Bar Examiners. Please also review the Admission to the Bar section of the University of Connecticut School of Law Student Handbook.
This grid includes only full-time applicants with LSAT scores earned under standard administrations.
| GPA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSAT Score |
3.75+ Apps |
3.75+ Adm |
3.50– 3.74 Apps |
3.50– 3.74 Adm |
3.25– 3.49 Apps |
3.25– 3.49 Adm |
3.00– 3.24 Apps |
3.00– 3.24 Adm |
2.75– 2.99 Apps |
2.75– 2.99 Adm |
2.50– 2.74 Apps |
2.50– 2.74 Adm |
2.25– 2.49 Apps |
2.25– 2.49 Adm |
2.00– 2.24 Apps |
2.00– 2.24 Adm |
Below 2.00 Apps |
Below 2.00 Adm |
No GPA Apps |
No GPA Adm |
Total Apps |
Total Adm |
| LSAT score 175–180 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 |
| LSAT score 170–174 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 27 |
| LSAT score 165–169 | 30 | 29 | 58 | 54 | 35 | 33 | 31 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 185 | 145 |
| LSAT score 160–164 | 74 | 57 | 136 | 105 | 129 | 85 | 82 | 47 | 29 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 479 | 306 |
| LSAT score 155–159 | 74 | 25 | 148 | 43 | 158 | 44 | 100 | 15 | 46 | 4 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 574 | 137 |
| LSAT score 150–154 | 44 | 11 | 59 | 7 | 103 | 10 | 85 | 7 | 36 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 380 | 37 |
| LSAT score 145–149 | 14 | 4 | 26 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 49 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 179 | 6 |
| LSAT score 140–144 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 103 | 1 |
| LSAT score 135–139 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| LSAT score 130–134 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| LSAT score 125–129 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| LSAT score 120–124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 257 | 138 | 461 | 223 | 490 | 177 | 393 | 96 | 175 | 16 | 126 | 7 | 45 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 54 | 6 | 2016 | 664 |
Apps = Number of Applicants
Adm = Number Admitted
Reflects 99% of the total applicant pool; highest LSAT data reported.