Jeremy R. Paul

Jeremy R. Paul
12th Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law
Incumbent
Assumed office April 2007
Preceded by	Nell Jessup Newton
Personal details
Born	July 22, 1956 New York, New York
Nationality	American
Spouse	Laurel Leff
Alma mater	Princeton University, (A.B., 1978); Harvard Law School, (J.D., 1981).

Jeremy R. Paul (born July 22, 1956), is the Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr., Professor of Real Property Law, and the Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Education

Paul graduated from Princeton University in 1978 and received his law degree from Harvard in 1981.

Career

Paul has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Law since 1989. Paul was named the Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law in January 2007. Dean Paul served as associate dean for academic affairs at UConn Law from 1999 until 2004, when he was named associate dean for research. Dean Paul previously served as a law clerk to Judge Irving Robert Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; as Professor-in-Residence at the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as Assistant to the President of TravelersGroup. Paul has taught at the University of Miami as both assistant and associate professor, and at Boston College Law School as a visiting professor.

Writings

Dean Paul's writings have appeared in the Texas Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Southern California Law Review, and the Washington Monthly. His writings include (with Michael Fischl) the book Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams and a widely used introduction to legal reasoning entitled "A Bedtime Story".

Dean Paul serves on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Law Tribune. He is also a former Board Member of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union.