Month: January 2016

“We’re Here for You Wednesdays”

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Be sure to stop by the Honors Programming & Events Office every Wednesday for our “We’re Here for You Wednesdays” Series.

Honors and Enrichment staff members are here for you! While staff members are available for appointments, we recognize that sometimes you just have a quick question that won’t take a whole appointment or you would just like to touch base to update us on progress or to discuss goals. “We’re Here for You Wednesdays” are a chance to seek advising or support on a walk-in basis from:

2:30-4:30pm on Wednesday afternoons in the Buckley Honors Programming and Events office

Each week will feature different members of the Honors and Enrichment team focusing on different topics. Learn more.

Exciting New Updates to the Honors Events Calendar

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Hello Honors Community!

We hope that you enjoyed your breaks and are looking forward to the new semester! We have exciting updates regarding the Honors Events Calendar:

  • Normally you would be getting a paper Honors Events calendar in your mailboxes. However, the Honors Events Calendar is going paperless and will only be accessible online.
  • You can access all Honors Events through multiple outlets, which are all available through the Honors Events page http://honors.uconn.edu/events/. Just click on the month under Current Events and then a list of Honors Events pops up. Click on the event title to read the description.
  • For students who wish to have a paper copy of the calendar, a monthly pdf will be available via the Weekly Newsletter from Allison and Andrew on Fridays. The monthly calendar will be updated regularly, so check back often!
  • Events and opportunities will continue to be advertised on Tuesdays in Updates in Honors.

 

All the Best,

Honors Programming and Events Team

UNIV 3784-002: The Canon of American Legal Thought

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Instructor: Michael Fischl

Now open to any third-year (or higher) Honors student. Email susan.ruggiero@uconn.edu for a permission number.

This seminar will examine what are widely regarded as the “greatest hits” in American legal thought, essays and articles that have significantly influenced the development of law and legal theory in the U.S. since the early 20th Century. The essays exemplify the principal schools of modern legal thought – including legal realism, law and economics, the law and society movement, and various branches of critical legal theory – and they feature legal thinkers from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Karl Llewellyn to Duncan Kennedy and Catharine Mackinnon.

Class will meet on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Gentry 140, and each week we will analyze and critique selected essays, most of which will be found in our textbook, The Canon of American Legal Thought (David Kennedy & William W. Fisher III, eds. 2006). A handful of additional readings will be available at a later date via email. Please be sure to purchase Kennedy & Fisher ASAP so you can  do the relatively short but very important reading assigned for our first class meeting on January 20.

Grades will be calculated in the following manner: 1/3 will be based on class participation; 1/3 will be based on your performance on a series of weekly quizzes; and 1/3 will be based on a final exam, which will be administered from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, our final day of class.