Paul Chill

Paul Chill has been teaching at UConn Law School since 1988 and, effective July 1, 2004, will become the first alumnus of the law school to serve as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Professor Chill has supervised clinical programs focusing on child protection, civil rights, disability, and mental health law, and has regularly taught non-clinical courses on torts and legal ethics.

A 1979 graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his law degree from UConn in 1985. Before joining the faculty, Professor Chill was a litigation associate with the New Haven firm of Garrison, Kahn, Silbert & Arterton, representing plaintiffs in employment cases. He also has served as a state-court magistrate and (before attending law school) as a youth services officer at a state institution for serious juvenile offenders.

In 1998, Professor Chill was honored as one of ten lawyers and judges "who made a difference" in Connecticut that year for his work as lead counsel in a lawsuit that led to systemic reform of the state's juvenile court system. In 1999, he received the Connecticut Law Review Award for excellence in legal scholarship and service to the legal community.

His writings include a treatise on The Law of Child Abuse and Neglect in Connecticut (1997), a mock trial published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), and most recently a law review article on the deleterious procedural impact of emergency removal in child protective proceedings. Professor Chill lives in Andover, Connecticut, with his wife and four children.