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Through the contributions and volunteer efforts of Day Pitney personnel, the Day Pitney Visiting Scholar program promotes positive developments in the law, legal scholarship, and legal and community education. The 2025 Program will honor Distinguished Professor Charles Geyh, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and his scholarly contributions to the study of judicial conduct and ethics. Professor Geyh will speak on the current Supreme Court, judicial ethics, and the future of the rule of law.

We invite all those interested to hear from Professor Geyh, a renowned scholar in the areas of judicial conduct, ethics, independence, accountability, and administration.

Professor Geyh’s scholarship has appeared in over 100 books, articles, book chapters, reports, and other publications. He is the author of Who Is to Judge? The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America’s Judges (Oxford University Press 2019); Courting Peril: The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary (Oxford University Press, 2015); When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America’s Judicial System (University of Michigan Press 2006); and Judicial Disqualification: An Analysis of Federal Law (3d ed. Federal Judicial Center 2020). In addition, he is coauthor of Judicial Conduct and Ethics (6th ed., Lexis Law Publishing 2020) (with Alfini, Lubet and Shaman); andUnderstanding Civil Procedure (6th ed. 2019) (with Shreve and Raven-Hansen); and editor of What’s Law Got to Do With it? What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What’s at Stake (Stanford University Press 2011).

Professor Geyh has served as an expert witness in the Senate impeachment trial of Federal District Judge G. Thomas Porteous; director of and consultant to the ABA Judicial Disqualification Project, and as reporter to four ABA commissions (the Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, the Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary, the Commission on the Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns, and the Commission on the Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence). He has likewise served as director of the American Judicature Society’s Center for Judicial Independence; consultant to the Parliamentary Development Project on Judicial Independence and Administration for the Supreme Rada of Ukraine; assistant special counsel to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the impeachment and removal of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen; consultant to the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal; and legislative liaison to the Federal Courts Study Committee.

Admission is free; lunch will be provided.

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Join UConn School of Law’s 1L class for the annual Alumni-Student Practice Area Dinner. Alumni enjoy dinner and participate in three rotations, where students eager to learn about your practice area will join you at your table.

This event is a favorite among both alumni and students, and your participation is crucial to its success. It’s also a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni and expand your professional network.