Michigan law allows police officers to confiscate cash or assets they believe have been gained through illegal means. Any type of property, including U.S. currency, can be seized and subject to forfeiture if law enforcement claims that it i...
December 1, 2022 with Mark Pauly of the Wharton School. This presentation, Externalities in the Wildland – Urban Interface: Private Decisions, Collective Action, and Results from Wildfire Simulation Models for California, addresses the fact that mu...
Nov. 17, 2022 with Mark Egan of the Harvard Business School. Variable annuities are popular retirement products, with over $2 trillion in assets in the United States. Brokers receive substantial commissions from insurers for selling these products, a...
New Ideas in Insurance: Daniel Sullivan and Seth Schafler
Nov. 3, 2022 with Daniel Sullivan of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg and Seth Schafler of Covington & Burling, two of the chief litigators involved in one of the most closely watched insurance law cases in recent years, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. v. Vigi...
October 6, 2022, with Allison Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Health insurance in the U.S. has largely been tied to work since the mid-20th century, but they may become less connected in the future. Job-based coverage has been weakeni...
New Ideas in Insurance: John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky
Oct. 20, 2022: John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky, the two most-cited torts scholars in the United States today, discuss their influential ‘civil recourse’ theory of tort law, recently laid out in their book Recognizing Wrongs (2020). The webina...
September 8, 2022: Robin Pearson, Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, presents Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London, 1970-2002.
System collapse is less common in insurance than in the history of other fi...
New Ideas in Insurance: Robert Schindler and Mathew S. Isaac
New Ideas in Insurance series from the Insurance Law Center, Sept. 22, 2002: Insurance may often be purchased for other-than-rational motives. This talk reviews the speakers’ recently published experimental evidence for one such nonrational motive,...
Morgen Barroso spoke at the University of Connecticut School of Law commencement on May 15, 2022, representing the JD graduates in the Class of 2022 Day Division.
Taylor DiChello '22 spoke at the University of Connecticut School of Law commencement on May 15, 2022, representing the JD graduates in the Class of 2022 Evening Division.
Marie Lenz of Germany spoke at the University of Connecticut School of Law commencement on May 15, 2022, representing the LLM graduates in the Class of 2022.
Ronen Avraham of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law discusses the overlooked dark side of insurance for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on March 3, 2...
Geoffrey Clark of the State University of New York at Potsdam discusses how the origins of the life insurance business offer clues about how insurance was understood in its formative decades and how many people may understand the way insurance operat...
New Ideas in Insurance, Peter Siegelman and Gideon Parchomovsky
Peter Siegelman of the University of Connecticut School of Law and Gideon Parchomovsky of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Hebrew University Faculty of Law discuss conventional moral hazard, the transfer of risk from policyholder to insu...
Carolyn Kousky of the University of Pennsylvania reports on ongoing research to promote accessible flood insurance for lower-income communities for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticu...
Kyle Logue of the University of Michigan Law School discusses the difficult policy questions surrounding ransomware insurance for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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Casper de Jong of Columbia University discusses how the basic assumption of the theory of adverse selection can be reversed for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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Justin Sydnor of Columbia University discusses the choices of health insurance consumers for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on February 3, 2022.
New Ideas in Insurance, Daniel Schwarcz and Kenneth Abraham
Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School and Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School discuss the limits of regulation by insurance for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the Un...
Hannah Farber of Columbia University discusses American maritime insurers in the first webinar of 2022 for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Jan. 20, 20...
John Cogan of UConn Law School discusses gender rating in health insurance in the this webinar, part of the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on April 22, 2021...
Shoshana Vasserman of the Stanford Business School discusses the impact of insurers monitoring consumer behavior for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on F...
A Centennial Event: Deans' Impact at UConn School of Law
On December 9, 2021 Dean Eboni S. Nelson moderated a discussion among former deans of UConn School of Law, including Timothy Fisher, Jeremy Paul, and Nell Jessup Newton. Opening remarks were provided by R. Kent Newmyer.
Michael Abramowicz of George Washington Law School discusses livelihood insurance in the first webinar of the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Jan. 21, 202...
Ray Farmer discusses 2020 and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law
Recorded on Feb. 4, 2021.
Anya Prince of the University of Iowa Law School discusses genetic non-discrimination for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Feb. 18, 2021.
Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School discusses the rules of medical necessity for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Feb. 11, 2021
Tom Baker of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School long term care insurance, an inherently risky product because the evolution of medical costs is subject to great uncertainty and socio-legal risk is highly correlated across insureds. This ...
Bennett Capers of Fordham Law delivered the inaugural lecture for the Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality at the University of Connecticut School of Law on Nov. 16, 2021.
John Rappaport of the University of Chicago Law School discusses how insurers regulate police for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on March 11, 2021.
There are many reasons why UConn Law should be on your radar when applying to law school. From our small class sizes, to our exceptional return on investment, this session will walk you through what sets UConn apart.
The event was part of UConn Law ...
Justice in America? Legal Accountability (or the Lack Thereof) following Police Shootings in the Black Community
Over the past several months, protests over the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Daniel Prude, and several others by police hav...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at UConn School of Law
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke as the Day, Berry & Howard Foundation Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut School of Law on March 12, 2004.
The Hon. Lubbie Harper, Jr., at the 2020 UConn Law Reunion
The Hon. Lubbie Harper, Jr., restired justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, spoke at the 2020 Reunion of the UConn School of Law, held online on September 10, 2020.
On September 1, 2020, the UConn School of Law hosted an online panel discussion of the book "Still We Rise: African Americans at the UConn School of Law" with the author, Constance Belton Green, and Dean Eboni Nelson and Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola.
The Tax Clinic at the University of Connecticut School of Law presents an explanation of the 2020 stimulus payments, known as economic income payments.
Should you be paying estimated taxes? If you are an independent contractor, such as an Uber or Lyft driver, you may be required to pay estimated taxes to avoid penalties when you field your return.
This video is intended for informational purposes o...
Dean Timothy Fisher Speaks at 2019 UConn Law Commencement
Dean Timothy Fisher's welcoming remarks at the 2019 commencement at the University of Connecticut School of Law on behalf of the JD Day Division graduates.
Emily Adams Gait Speaks at 2019 UConn Law Commencment
Emily Adams Gait delivers a speech at the 2019 commencement at the University of Connecticut School of Law on behalf of the JD Evening Division graduates.