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The University of Connecticut School of Law ( UConn Law ) is the law school associated with the University of Connecticut and located in Hartford, Connecticut . It is the only public law school in Connecticut and one of only four in New England . As of 2020, it enrolled 488 students.

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39-664: Founded in 1921 as the Hartford College of Law , the law school is accredited by the American Bar Association , and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools . In 1948 it affiliated with the University of Connecticut, now ranked among the top 25 public research universities nationally. The law school's Collegiate Gothic-style buildings were constructed in 1925, with the exception of

78-952: A Buffalo, New York publisher specializing in legal materials. The company was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1961, and is currently based in nearby Getzville, New York . In 2013, WSH Co. was the 33rd largest private company in western New York, with revenues of around $ 33 million and more than seventy employees. HeinOnline is a source for traditional legal materials (reported cases, statutes, government regulations, academic law reviews, commercially produced law journals and magazines, and classic treatises), historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, legislative and executive branch reports, world constitutions, international treaties, and reports and other documents of international organizations. The database includes more than 192 million pages of materials "in an online, fully searchable, image-based format". In 2001, HeinOnline received

117-530: A bar examination within two years. Ten months after graduation, 90.4% of the Class of 2019 was employed, with 72% obtaining Bar Passage Required employment (employment as an attorney). University of Connecticut's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 9.6%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2021 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. Thirteen members of

156-563: A certificate in Financial Services or one of four Foundational Certificates in U.S. Law. In addition, UConn Law offers 19 clinics and field placement programs that provide hands-on, practical training to upper-level students who earn up to 10 credits for their work. These clinics include Animal Law, Asylum and Human Rights, Energy and Environmental Law, Children's Advocacy, Criminal, Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law, Mediation, U.S. Attorney's, and Tax clinics. Seminars in

195-455: A multitude of different substantive areas are available to upper-level students for about 3 credits. Internships and field work are available to upper-level students. Research positions are open to upper-level students under the direction of a faculty adviser. The 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m) Thomas J. Meskill Law Library is one of the largest law libraries in the country and houses the most comprehensive collection of insurance materials in

234-548: A past Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court . This article about a university or college in Connecticut is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This law school related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . HeinOnline HeinOnline ( HOL ) is a commercial internet database service launched in 2000 by William S. Hein & Co. (WSH Co),

273-443: A survey found that 72% of all law firms subscribed to HeinOnline. The author of this article noted that "Academic law libraries quickly embraced HeinOnline in its early years" but expressed "surprise" by "the popularity of HeinOnline in law firms, at 72%." The explanation for this unexpected survey result rested on economic considerations interwoven with HOL's content: "as law firms reduced office space dedicated to print collections,

312-428: A survey of law librarians ranked HeinOnline as one of the three most popular "subscription databases" among law libraries throughout the world. This survey ranked HOL just behind the much larger and more highly capitalized Westlaw and LexisNexis . According to this survey, conducted by a London-based law librarian, "These top three easily dominated the subscription database market across all major law libraries, across

351-559: Is a "robust legal research portal and discovery platform" that "provides multiple starting points for legal researchers to access more specific legal topics because secondary sources, such as journal articles and chapters in monographs, are cross-linked with primary sources. . . ." In 2016, Hein launched "Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, & Law." Unlike other Hein products, access to this on-line collection

390-442: Is an indispensable tool in many research arsenals, providing access to current must-haves as well as historical obscurities." Odenwald described HeinOnline as "a cornucopia of legal research treasures". In this review he also noted the "oft-repeated drawback to Hein is the lack of editorial enhancements like those on LexisNexis and Westlaw" such as its lack of "annotated codes, case law summaries nor formal legal citation services." At

429-545: Is completely free, and available to anyone in the world simply by registering at: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law It contains virtually every reported state and federal case on slavery, every state and federal case on slavery, and more than 1,250 books and pamphlets dating from the eighteenth century to the present. Many of the items have introductions by the General Editor of

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468-514: Is significant since many similar databases do not provide full texts of even all U.S. Supreme Court reports, and keyboarded texts of opinions also often do not include italics and other typeface distinctions found in opinions, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. Furthermore, because nothing in Hein has been keyboarded, no typographical errors have been introduced into the text. In addition to publishing new books and other materials, Hein has become

507-521: The Emerging Sources Citation Index . According to the University of Connecticut's official 2021 ABA-required Standard 509 Information Report, the university offered admission to 28.79 percent of JD applicants. For the 2021 first-year class, the University of Connecticut School of Law received 1,754 completed applications and offered admission to 505 applicants, of which 144 enrolled. 91.61% of UConn Law's Class of 2017 passed

546-721: The League of Nations ) and modern international organizations (such as the United Nations). HOL has placed online, in word-searchable format, virtually all known historical legal periodicals in English. The Chief Law Librarian at a major Canadian law school referred to this project as "the epic work of HeinOnline". Among its collections, HOL has a full run of the complete reports in PDF form of all U.S. federal statutes, all U.S. Supreme Court reports, lower federal court reports, reports of

585-761: The Cook County Law Library and other local law libraries." As a journalist noted in writing a history of HOL, the online product has allowed all libraries to cope with "the over burgeoning shelf space devoted to law reviews". In a 2017 "Peer Review" of HeinOnline, in Connections, the official publication of the Association of Independent Information Professionals, Dan Odenwald, of Capstone Information Services & Consulting, noted that "With material dating to 13th century English Law Reports through contemporary American statutes and commentary, Hein

624-617: The Federal Register and every law review ever published in the United States allowed their firms to discard bound volumes, reduce subscriptions to some materials, and at the same time reduce the need to order materials on inter-library loan. The director of the library at one of the largest firms in Chicago noted, "We cancelled subscriptions, got rid of the bound volumes, and reduced the amount of borrowings we needed to do at

663-699: The Middle East) HOL was tied with Lexis for second place behind Westlaw and in Europe HOL ranked third, behind Westlaw and Lexis. This suggests that the smaller HOL has as great a presence at home and nearly so in Europe and Asia as its much larger competitors, but that it has been less successful in penetrating markets in Africa, Latin America, Australia/New Zealand, and the Middle East. In 2010,

702-562: The School of Law. The Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal is a student-run biannual law review published by the school. It was established in 2001 and is abstracted and indexed in HeinOnline . Every fall, the journal hosts a symposium on issues related to public interest law . The Connecticut Journal of International Law is a biannual student-edited law review covering international and comparative law . It has published by

741-925: The Thomas J. Meskill Law Library, which was completed in 1996. The campus housed the Hartford Seminary until 1981 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . In addition to the Juris Doctor (JD) degree, the law school offers several joint degrees, combining a Juris Doctor degree with a Master of Laws, Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Affairs Administration, Master of Public Health, or Master of Social Work. UConn Law offers LLM degrees in Energy and Environmental Law, Human Rights and Social Justice, U.S. Legal Studies and Insurance Law—the only LLM program in insurance law in

780-629: The U.S. Customs Court, Tax Court Memorandum Decisions, and Board of Bankruptcy Courts. HOL contains all published debates in Congress, starting with the Annals of Congress in 1789 and is beginning to add published committee reports from Congress, executive branch reports, administrative law reports and decisions, all colonial and state statutes and reported cases, congressional hearings, and full runs of reports and documents from numerous federal agencies. Materials come from all English-speaking nations, but

819-710: The United States. UConn Law also offers the SJD (Doctor of the Science of Laws) degree and a professional certificate in corporate and regulatory compliance. JD and LLM candidates may pursue certificates in Corporate and Regulatory Compliance, Energy and Environmental Law, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, and Tax Studies. JD candidates may also earn certificates in Insurance Law and Regulation, Law and Public Policy, and Transactional Practice. LLM candidates may also pursue

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858-460: The University could effectively operate it. At the end of that time, the operation of the college having been deemed successful, it was then permanently absorbed by the University as the University of Connecticut School of Law . It was founded by three lawyers one of them Allan K. Smith served as a United States Attorney while teaching there. Alumni of the institution include Louis Shapiro ,

897-426: The country. The Law Library has access to hundreds of electronic databases, including Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg. It has five classrooms, 12 group study rooms, an adaptive technology study room, a meditation room, a café, two student lounges, and 285 study carrels, with total seating for 964. The Law Library works closely with the University of Connecticut Libraries, which form the largest public research collection in

936-563: The coveted "New Product Award", from the American Association of Law Libraries . Since then HOL has received this award two more times in recognition of new content libraries added to its constantly expanding database. In 2002, HOL was named as a "Best Commercial Website" by the International Association of Law Libraries. In 2007, EContent Magazine listed HOL among the hundred "companies that matter most in

975-664: The database also includes a great deal of other foreign materials. These include the Israel Law Reports, the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP), materials from the European Centre for Minority Issues , "comprehensive coverage of student-run law reviews relating to Chinese law", and a Foreign and International Law Library. HeinOnline carries a number of sources which are otherwise unavailable from competing database products. For example, it has PDFs of scans of

1014-539: The database of law reviews had expanded to more than 800 journals. Starting in 2007, HOL provided full-text searchable access to "every 'flagship' law review published by an accredited U.S. law school." At the time of HeinOnline’s inception, Lexis and Westlaw did not offer access to older law reviews, but only to those published since the 1980s. Thus, HOL initially envisioned itself mainly as a historical archive, but this changed due to market demands by professors, scholars, and law librarians, who wanted access to HOL's scans of

1053-514: The digital content industry". The list "represents the best and the brightest digital content companies". More recently HOL's World's Constitutions Illustrated was named by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Title" for 2010. A little more than a decade after HOL went live, a publication of the American Association of Law Libraries referred to it as a "groundbreaking product" and as "a leader in online legal literature". In 2013,

1092-407: The entire Federal Register, which is updated on a daily basis. Its library of law journal articles differs from competitors' star-paginated plain text versions. Because Hein uses PDFs, rather than keyboarded text, every document shows original pagination, punctuation, spelling and typesetting. However, as with any electronic product, there are occasional scanning errors. The use of fully searchable PDFs

1131-528: The ever-increasing breadth of HeinOnline's historical, and now more current, publications has made it a pragmatic and sound business investment." This analysis dovetailed with earlier explanations by law firm librarians. All materials on HeinOnline are available as downloadable and searchable PDFs of the original and complete documents. Unlike its major competitors, HOL does not keyboard the content of documents, cases, and statutes, but instead scans them with high-end optical scanning technology. This approach avoids

1170-519: The full-time faculty hold doctoral degrees. Notable faculty members include: 41°46′23″N 72°42′27″W  /  41.7731°N 72.7076°W  / 41.7731; -72.7076 Hartford College of Law The Hartford College of Law was a law school operating in Hartford, Connecticut , from October 25, 1921, to October 27, 1948, when it was fully merged into the University of Connecticut , which had taken over administrative control of

1209-494: The introduction of typographical errors. In addition, other competitors often edit or delete cases and documents, or change pagination, formatting, and the use of various typefaces such as italics. Because of HOL's use of pdfs of all original documents, the materials appear exactly as they did in the original publication. HeinOnline initially focused on traditional legal materials. Indeed, when first released, HOL provided full online access to only 25 academic law reviews, but by 2006

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1248-623: The library, slavery historian Paul Finkelman . Hein continues to add to the library every month. In March, 2017 an article in the official publication of the Association of Independent Information Professionals praised this new collection, noting "Hein also believes in corporate citizenship: In October 2016, it released its collection, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. Freely available to anyone with Internet access." The emergence of HeinOnline reflects trends in law librarianship as well as economic changes. In an interview setting, librarians at law firms noted that access to

1287-667: The more recent journal issues as well, rather than the keyboarded version in Westlaw and Lexis. Even before HOL expanded to include all new law review issues, it was adding other material, starting with the Federal Register in 2002 and a Supreme Court library that included PDFs of all volumes of United States Reports . Significantly, Hein offered the full and complete version of all reported cases, while its competitors often provided truncated and edited versions, with changes in spelling or punctuation to reflect modern usage. This

1326-663: The publisher and the repository for a number of third parties. For example, Hein publishes the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) for the American Association of Law Libraries . Most of the more than 500 periodicals indexed in IFLP are also available in full-text versions through HOL. In addition to traditional periodicals, the IFLP also provides index access to more than 50 collections of essays, conference proceedings, and festschriften. Some of these books are also available on HOL in full text. Chinese legal scholars praise HOL because it

1365-574: The school by lease in 1942. The school had close ties to the Travelers Insurance Company , and in 1939 also established the Hartford College of Insurance. After this establishment, it was sometimes referred to as the Hartford College of Law and Insurance. In 1943, an act of the state legislature permitted the University of Connecticut to take over the institution for a trial period of five years, to determine whether

1404-473: The school since 1985. The journal sponsors an annual symposium . It is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO and ProQuest databases as well as in HeinOnline . The Connecticut Insurance Law Journal is a quarterly law review covering insurance law . It was established in 1994. The journal is abstracted and indexed in HeinOnline , EBSCO and ProQuest databases, the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books , and

1443-855: The state of Connecticut. The main library is the Homer D. Babbidge Library at the Storrs campus. UConn Law students produce four scholarly journals: the Connecticut Law Review , the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal , the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal , and the Connecticut Journal of International Law . The Connecticut Law Review is the oldest, largest, and most active student-run publication at

1482-562: The world." They also "dominated University law school libraries". Significantly, among "Research Institute Libraries" HOL ranked first while the much larger Lexis and Westlaw dropped to third and fourth. HOL and Westlaw were tied for first among the most popular "subscription databases" in Public Libraries. Among North American law libraries HOL, Lexis and Westlaw were tied for the highest number of subscriptions, in Asia (excluding

1521-1010: Was especially true for 19th century cases, which contained extensive lawyers' arguments in the U.S. Reports. These were often deleted in the Lexis and Westlaw versions, but are fully available on HOL. Libraries of Treaties and Agreements, legal classics, U.S. Statutes at Large, all Federal Regulations (including those that had been long superseded) were added by 2007, and more material including extensive state material followed. HeinOnline has now expanded to include reports and proceedings of federal, state, and local governments and agencies, modern books, non-academic law reviews and journals, current legal periodicals, foreign law reports and statutes, legislative and executive branch reports from foreign governments and NGOs, annual reports of numerous non-legal organizations (such as nineteenth-century antislavery societies, religious organizations, and medical societies), reports from historical international organizations (such as

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