University of Connecticut. School of Law

In 1943, the University of Connecticut absorbed the Hartford Colleges of Law (founded 1921) and Insurance establishing the University of Connecticut School of Law and the College of Insurance. Laurence J. Ackerman was appointed acting Dean of the School of Law in the same year and would serve in an acting capacity until 1946 and the appointment of Bert E. Hopkins. The School of Law began enrolling students in 1946 with an inaugural class of 194 students. The Law School moved to a its current location in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1964, having increased its enrollment by forty percent in its eighteen years of existence.

In 1943, the University of Connecticut absorbed the Hartford Colleges of Law (founded 1921) and Insurance establishing the University of Connecticut School of Law and the College of Insurance. Laurence J. Ackerman was appointed acting Dean of the School of Law in the same year and would serve in an acting capacity until 1946 and the appointment of Bert E. Hopkins . The School of Law began enrolling students in 1946 with an inaugural class of 194 students. The Law School moved to a its current location in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1964, having increased its enrollment by forty percent in its eighteen years of existence.

Additional information can be found on the School of Law's website .