Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying: The Rise of Private Health Insurance in the U.S.
Dr. Marcella Alsan, Harvard University
Yousra Neberai, Harvard University
Xingyou Ye, Princeton University
This study examines the rise of private health insurance in the United States post-World War II era. We investigate the role of the American M...
Stephen Bright, a capital defense lawyer who has argued and won four death penalty cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, delivered the commencement address as UConn School of Law graduated the Class of 2024 on May 12, 2024.
Mathilde Cohen Leads Food and Identity Workshop in Toulouse, France
UConn Law Professor Mathilde Cohen recently traveled with JD students Zoe Allison and Sophia Buchanan to Toulouse, France to participate in a workshop titled “Food and Race: A Transatlantic Dialogue”
The Incidence of Adverse Selection: Theory and Evidence from Health Insurance Choices
Michael Geruso, Timothy Layton, Adam Leive, April 4, 2024. Existing research on selection in insurance markets focuses on how adverse selection distorts prices and misallocates products across people. This ignores the distributional consequences of w...
Regulatory Competition in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
Johnny Tang, March 7, 2024. This presentation examines the consequences of competition between jurisdictions in the U.S. life insurance industry. States vie to attract insurers by setting lower capital requirements, but the costs of such actions are ...
Kenneth Abraham, Catherine Sharkey, Feb. 22, 2024
The glaring gap in tort theory is its failure to take adequate account of liability insurance. Most of tort theory fails to recognize the central role that liability insurance plays in tort law and li...
This panel discusses the power of evidence rules and how they may reinforce existing knowledge hierarchies or alternatively serve to expand existing perspectives.
Moderator: Professor Kiel Brennan-Marquez
Panelists:
Professor Julia Simon-Kerr
Profe...
CPILJ Symposium 2024 - Panel 2: Reform Efforts and Implementation
This panel identifies different areas where reform is being attempted or has been accomplished.
Moderator: Professor Julia Simon-Kerr
Panelists:
Professor Andrea Dennis
Professor Anna Roberts
Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose
Professor Maneka Sinha
...
CPILJ Symposium 2024 - Excited Utterance Live Recording
Professor Erin Collins, Professor of Law at Richmond Law School, joins Professor Ed Cheng, the host of Excited Utterance and Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School.
Recorded on: Jan. 26, 2024
CPILJ Symposium 2024 - Panel 3: Critical Approaches to Pedagogy and Practice
This panel focuses on ways to teach and practice evidence from a critical perspective.
Moderator: Taylorann Vibert
Panelists:
Professor Lauryn Gouldin
Professor Jasmine Harris
Professor Montre Carodine
Professor Nina Chernoff
Professor Christine Go...
Patricia Born, Lisa Miller and Peter Molk, Feb. 8, 2024. There is a widespread sense that the market for property and casualty insurance in Florida is in a state of crisis. Is it? If so, why, and what can be done about it? This panel discussion will ...
Never Far From Home: A Book Talk With Author Bruce Jackson
The UConn School of Law and the UConn Law Alumni of Color Affinity Group held a fireside chat on February 1, 2024 featuring Microsoft executive and attorney, Bruce Jackson. Peter Wilson ’00, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Cravath, Swain a...
Climate Litigation Risk: Is there Shelter from the Storm?
Susan Doering, Michelle Radcliffe, Martin Lockman, Jan. 25, 2024. Climate change creates risks to health, property, and earnings. It also creates liability risk when injured parties sue entities for which insurers have provided coverage. In this talk...
In Conversation: The Supreme Court - SFFA v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
UConn Law's series In Conversation: The Supreme Court gives the law school community the opportunity to come together to discuss important Supreme Court decisions. On Nov. 15, 2023, the topic was f Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and ...
Proof: The Law's Most Essential Element, Jurist-in-Residence Program Inaugural Lecture
Judge Victor Bolden’s lecture explores proof as the rule of law’s most essential element. In this seemingly apocalyptic age, when the rule of law appears under siege, the way forward should involve reaffirming our belief in the rule of law, throu...
Transatlantic Slave Traders’ Insurance Strategies: Sources and Challenges
Mallory Hope, Nov. 30, 2023. Some of most fascinating scholarship on the transatlantic slave trade in recent years has explored the trade’s demand side. To ensure the success of their operations, European slave traders had to make a close study of ...
Insuring Cyber Insecurity: How Cyber Insurance Undermines Cybersecurity Among Businesses
Shauhin Talesh, Nov. 2, 2023. Cyber risks–loss exposure associated with the use of electronic equipment, computers, information technology, and virtual reality–are among the biggest threats facing businesses and consumers. Despite these threats, ...
Behavioral Professionals: Evidence from the Commercial Auto Insurance Industry
Alon Rubinstein, Nov. 16, 2023. A key insight from the economics of selection markets is that competition disciplines sellers to customize coverage and premiums optimally. But is this the case? Using data from one of the largest Israeli commercial au...
Privatizing Family Leave Policy: Assessing the New Opt-in Insurance Model
Deborah Widiss, Oct. 5, 2023. Federal law fails to guarantee new parents or family caregivers paid time off from work. A growing number of blue-leaning states have addressed this gap by enacting comprehensive, paid family and medical leave laws, typi...
2023 Connecticut Law Review Symposium: Interrogating Haaland v. Brackeen:
The Connecticut Law Review held its 2023 symposium: "Interrogating Haaland v. Brackeen: Family Regulation, Constitutional Power, and Tribal Resilience" online on October 6, 2023. The litigation that led to Haaland v. Brackeen threatened to take down ...
In Conversation: The Supreme Court - 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
UConn Law's series In Conversation: The Supreme Court gives the law school community the opportunity to come together to discuss important Supreme Court decisions.
Professor Julia Simon-Kerr delivers a lecture on "The Promise and Peril of Evidence Law" at an event honoring her appointment as the Evangeline Starr Professor of Law.
New Ideas in Insurance: Jay Feinman, Sept. 21, 2023
Effective markets require comparison shopping, which enables competition. But comparison of insurance products is virtually impossible because insurers do not make policies readily available, and consumers would have a hard time reading and understan...
New Ideas in Insurance, Liran Einav, Sept. 7, 2023
Liran Einav of Stanford University speaks on Selection & Welfare in Insurance Markets. Insurance markets are frequently subject to pressures from selection–insurance purchasers are not a random sample of all potential customers. Rather, those who w...
Video of the the 100th UConn School of Law commencement ceremony, celebrating the Class of 2023 on May 14, 2023. ACLU President and NYU Associate Dean Deborah Archer served as the featured speaker. Students speakers Jim Motes, Ching Yu Lin and Seraph...
Highlights of the 100th UConn School of Law commencement, celebrating the Class of 2023 on May 14, 2023. ACLU President and NYU Associate Dean Deborah Archer served as the featured speaker. Students speakers Jim Motes, Ching Yu Lin and Seraphin Tala ...
New Ideas in Insurance: Chris Robertson and Wendy Epstein
Policies to encourage health insurance uptake have focused on consumers’ economic self-interest, attempting to show that insurance is a good deal or to sweeten the deal with subsidies or penalties. Still, some consumers see insurance as a bad deal,...
UConn Law Professor Mathilde Cohen Brings Class to CT Foodshare
As part of the Food Law and Policy class, Mathilde Cohen brought her students to CT Foodshare in Bloomfield to volunteer, sorting frozen meat donations. The class discusses food insecurities as well as both government and non-profit assistance. The v...
UConn School of Law celebrates the Class of 2023 at its 100th commencement ceremony. ACLU President and NYU Associate Dean Deborah Archer served as the featured speaker. Students speakers Jim Motes, Ching Yu Lin and Seraphin represented the evening d...
Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality
Professor Kiel Brennan-Marquez, the founding director of UConn School of Law's Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality, discusses the center's philosophy, purpose, and work.
Broadly interpreted, social inflation refers to shifts in the insurer’s loss distribution due to factors such as large jury awards and broader definitions of liability. This talk reports on an empirical study that uses novel data to show that socia...
The rise of a local insurance market in sixteenth-century London was accompanied by a number of problems, both legal and institutional. Most uncommonly for England, the solution devised by the authorities was to write an insurance code, which happene...
Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Chicago Law School
Telematic devices installed in cars offer significant welfare gains via Usage Based Insurance, which calibrates premiums to an insured driver’s risky behavior. Sophisticated empirical work robustly ...
New Ideas in Insurance: Tom Baker and Anja Shortland
Crime creates demand for insurance but supplying insurance may promote crime. The authors conceptualize insurance and crime as binary stars, co-evolving as each innovates. They examine five case studies: auto theft, art theft, kidnap and hijack for r...
This talk discusses demand for flood insurance and the implications for the welfare effects of currently proposed reforms to this market in the United States. Individuals’ willingness to pay for such insurance is remarkably low: even in high-risk f...
January 26, 2023, Historical Origins of the Debate Between Individual and Social Insurance
Should protections for old age and disability be based on individual savings or social insurance? This disagreement can be traced to rival plans advanced in th...
December 1, 2022 with Mark Pauly of the Wharton School. This presentation, Externalities in the Wildland – Urban Interface: Private Decisions, Collective Action, and Results from Wildfire Simulation Models for California, addresses the fact that mu...
Nov. 17, 2022 with Mark Egan of the Harvard Business School. Variable annuities are popular retirement products, with over $2 trillion in assets in the United States. Brokers receive substantial commissions from insurers for selling these products, a...
New Ideas in Insurance: Daniel Sullivan and Seth Schafler
Nov. 3, 2022 with Daniel Sullivan of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg and Seth Schafler of Covington & Burling, two of the chief litigators involved in one of the most closely watched insurance law cases in recent years, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. v. Vigi...
October 6, 2022, with Allison Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Health insurance in the U.S. has largely been tied to work since the mid-20th century, but they may become less connected in the future. Job-based coverage has been weakeni...
New Ideas in Insurance: John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky
Oct. 20, 2022: John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky, the two most-cited torts scholars in the United States today, discuss their influential ‘civil recourse’ theory of tort law, recently laid out in their book Recognizing Wrongs (2020). The webina...
September 8, 2022: Robin Pearson, Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, presents Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London, 1970-2002.
System collapse is less common in insurance than in the history of other fi...
New Ideas in Insurance: Robert Schindler and Mathew S. Isaac
New Ideas in Insurance series from the Insurance Law Center, Sept. 22, 2002: Insurance may often be purchased for other-than-rational motives. This talk reviews the speakers’ recently published experimental evidence for one such nonrational motive,...
Morgen Barroso spoke at the University of Connecticut School of Law commencement on May 15, 2022, representing the JD graduates in the Class of 2022 Day Division.
Taylor DiChello '22 spoke at the University of Connecticut School of Law commencement on May 15, 2022, representing the JD graduates in the Class of 2022 Evening Division.
Marie Lenz of Germany spoke at the University of Connecticut School of Law commencement on May 15, 2022, representing the LLM graduates in the Class of 2022.
Ronen Avraham of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law discusses the overlooked dark side of insurance for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on March 3, 2...
Geoffrey Clark of the State University of New York at Potsdam discusses how the origins of the life insurance business offer clues about how insurance was understood in its formative decades and how many people may understand the way insurance operat...
New Ideas in Insurance, Peter Siegelman and Gideon Parchomovsky
Peter Siegelman of the University of Connecticut School of Law and Gideon Parchomovsky of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Hebrew University Faculty of Law discuss conventional moral hazard, the transfer of risk from policyholder to insu...
Carolyn Kousky of the University of Pennsylvania reports on ongoing research to promote accessible flood insurance for lower-income communities for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticu...
Kyle Logue of the University of Michigan Law School discusses the difficult policy questions surrounding ransomware insurance for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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Casper de Jong of Columbia University discusses how the basic assumption of the theory of adverse selection can be reversed for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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Justin Sydnor of Columbia University discusses the choices of health insurance consumers for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on February 3, 2022.
New Ideas in Insurance, Daniel Schwarcz and Kenneth Abraham
Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School and Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School discuss the limits of regulation by insurance for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the Un...
Hannah Farber of Columbia University discusses American maritime insurers in the first webinar of 2022 for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Jan. 20, 20...
John Cogan of UConn Law School discusses gender rating in health insurance in the this webinar, part of the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on April 22, 2021...
Shoshana Vasserman of the Stanford Business School discusses the impact of insurers monitoring consumer behavior for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on F...
A Centennial Event: Deans' Impact at UConn School of Law
On December 9, 2021 Dean Eboni S. Nelson moderated a discussion among former deans of UConn School of Law, including Timothy Fisher, Jeremy Paul, and Nell Jessup Newton. Opening remarks were provided by R. Kent Newmyer.
Michael Abramowicz of George Washington Law School discusses livelihood insurance in the first webinar of the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Jan. 21, 202...
Ray Farmer discusses 2020 and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law
Recorded on Feb. 4, 2021.
Anya Prince of the University of Iowa Law School discusses genetic non-discrimination for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Feb. 18, 2021.
Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School discusses the rules of medical necessity for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on Feb. 11, 2021
Tom Baker of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School long term care insurance, an inherently risky product because the evolution of medical costs is subject to great uncertainty and socio-legal risk is highly correlated across insureds. This ...
Bennett Capers of Fordham Law delivered the inaugural lecture for the Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality at the University of Connecticut School of Law on Nov. 16, 2021.
John Rappaport of the University of Chicago Law School discusses how insurers regulate police for the New Ideas in Insurance speakers series of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Recorded on March 11, 2021.
There are many reasons why UConn Law should be on your radar when applying to law school. From our small class sizes, to our exceptional return on investment, this session will walk you through what sets UConn apart.
The event was part of UConn Law ...
Justice in America? Legal Accountability (or the Lack Thereof) following Police Shootings in the Black Community
Over the past several months, protests over the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Daniel Prude, and several others by police hav...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at UConn School of Law
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke as the Day, Berry & Howard Foundation Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut School of Law on March 12, 2004.
The Hon. Lubbie Harper, Jr., at the 2020 UConn Law Reunion
The Hon. Lubbie Harper, Jr., restired justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, spoke at the 2020 Reunion of the UConn School of Law, held online on September 10, 2020.
On September 1, 2020, the UConn School of Law hosted an online panel discussion of the book "Still We Rise: African Americans at the UConn School of Law" with the author, Constance Belton Green, and Dean Eboni Nelson and Assistant Dean Karen DeMeola.
The Tax Clinic at the University of Connecticut School of Law presents an explanation of the 2020 stimulus payments, known as economic income payments.
Should you be paying estimated taxes? If you are an independent contractor, such as an Uber or Lyft driver, you may be required to pay estimated taxes to avoid penalties when you field your return.
This video is intended for informational purposes o...
Dean Timothy Fisher Speaks at 2019 UConn Law Commencement
Dean Timothy Fisher's welcoming remarks at the 2019 commencement at the University of Connecticut School of Law on behalf of the JD Day Division graduates.
Emily Adams Gait Speaks at 2019 UConn Law Commencment
Emily Adams Gait delivers a speech at the 2019 commencement at the University of Connecticut School of Law on behalf of the JD Evening Division graduates.
