The UConn Pre-Law Center is committed to working with students and alumni who wish to become legal professionals. The Center is open to any student, regardless of major or class year, and all alumni, no matter when they graduated. Advising begins with the question of whether or not law school is the appropriate tool to help students achieve their goals. Not all students who start out pre-law decide to go to law school. We help those students find ways to link their interest in law to other paths while keeping the possibility of law school in the future open. For those students who do decide to go to law school, the Pre-Law Center helps them make their application as strong as possible by reviewing resumes, personal statements, and other application materials, advise on school selection and scholarship offers, as well as provide general information about law school and the application process.
In addition to individual advising appointments, the Pre-Law Center hosts workshops and events for students to learn more about law and the legal profession. We recently started a new lunch series, Lunch with Lawyers, which aims to bring a variety of legal professionals to campus to expose students to different areas of law and different legal careers. Last semester, we started Hot Topics in Law: A Speakers Series to bring cutting edge legal research to campus. We also host an annual law fair that brings law schools from across the country here to recruit talented UConn students. This year we’ve expanded our numbers and hope to bring even more schools to campus. This year, the Fair is on October 14th in the Student Union Ballroom.
The Pre-Law Center also maintains an active Facebook Page where we post information about campus events as well as important news about the legal profession and the law school application process. We also have an email newsletter that we send out twice a month (on average) with highlights and other information, including our Alumni Spotlight! column where we feature UConn alumni who have gone on to have legal careers. To receive the newsletter, please send an email to prelaw@uconn.edu.
Faculty are encouraged to refer any student interested in law school to the pre-law office so we can begin working with that student as soon as possible. Students are encouraged to attend a general pre-law workshop before scheduling an advising appointment, but this is not required. Advising Appointments can be scheduled via AdvApp; pre-law is listed under the Pre-Professional Programs heading.
Edward F. Kammerer, Jr., J.D., Ph.D.
Advisor, Pre-Law
(860) 486-3174
edward.kammerer@uconn.edu
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