Insurance law has been a focus of UConn Law School’s curriculum since its founding over 100 years ago. Because of Hartford’s role in the insurance industry, the Hartford College of Law was founded in part to serve the needs of the city’s insurance companies. After the Law School became part of the University of Connecticut in the 1940s, it continued its relationship with Hartford’s insurance industry.

In the 1990s, the Law School renewed its dedication to being a national center for insurance law and began publishing the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal (now the Insurance Law Review) and established the Insurance Law Center. As the Law School increased its focus on insurance, the library greatly expanded its collections and services in this area, hiring a law librarian specializing in insurance law, Yan Hong. The law library still collects widely in the areas of risk, insurance, and insurance law. 

As part of its Centennial Celebration, the law library has a display of materials related to the insurance industry in Hartford and the history of the Law School’s insurance law program. 

For a detailed history of insurance law at UConn Law School, see Dean Emeritus Timothy Fisher and Leah Smith’s article Risk and Responsibility: Insurance and the University of Connecticut School of Law. 

More information about the library’s insurance collection is available on our research guides.