Ellen Ash Peters, former chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and was established by Phillip Blumberg, Peters' spouse and dean emeritus of the law school. Gold turned down offers for admission into several top law schools, including the University of Virginia and Boston University. Her decision was easy, she said, after she visited UConn. Law student Maggie Gold, who will graduate in May, chose UConn over the University of Virginia and Boston University. When I visited here all the students were smiling and happy to talk about their experiences.
Law school is hard enough.
Other rare features that attracted Gold to UConn were the lack of competition among students and small class sizes. In the second and third years, clinics and classes comprise about 10 students each. Gold became active her first year here, joining the Student Bar Association as first-year representative. She spent her first summer working for Federal District Judge Robert J. Ward of the Southern District of New York. She says she owed part of her success that summer to a research and writing course she took in her first year at UConn.