Jeremy R. Paul
Jeremy R. Paul, who has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Law since 1989, was named the dean of the Law School in January 2007.[1] 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 R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[2]; 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. He has taught at the University of Miami as both assistant and associate professor and at Boston College Law School as a visiting professor. He graduated from Princeton University in 1978 and received his law degree from Harvard in 1981. 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, and they include (with Michael Fischl) the book Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams [3] and a widely used introduction to legal reasoning entitled "A Bedtime Story" [4] Dean Paul serves on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Law Tribune, and is a former Board Member of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union.