The Hartford College of Law was a

law school A law school (also known as a law centre or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a lawyer within a given jurisdiction. Law degrees Argentina In Argentina, ...

operating in

Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...

, from October 25, 1921, to October 27, 1948, when it was fully merged into the University of Connecticut, which had taken over administrative control of the school by lease in 1942. The school had close ties to the Travelers Insurance Company, and in 1939 also established the Hartford College of Insurance. After this establishment, it was sometimes referred to as the Hartford College of Law and Insurance. In 1943, an act of the state legislature permitted the University of Connecticut to take over the institution for a trial period of five years, to determine whether the University could effectively operate it. At the end of that time, the operation of the college having been deemed successful, it was then permanently absorbed by the University as the

University of Connecticut School of Law The University of Connecticut School of Law (UConn Law) is the law school associated with the University of Connecticut and located in Hartford, Connecticut. It is the only public law school in Connecticut and one of only four in New England. In ...

. It was founded by three lawyers one of them

Allan K. Smith Allan Kellogg Smith (August 17, 1888 – April 9, 1985) was an American attorney and educator who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut under Calvin Coolidge. Biography Allan K. Smith was born in Hartford and wo ...

served as a United States Attorney while teaching there. Alumni of the institution include Louis Shapiro, a past Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.''Connecticut Reports'' (1991), volume 217, p. 818-819.

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