Rate My Professor Jon Bauer

Bauer’s research specializations include asylum and refugee law, immigration law, employment and housing discrimination, and legal ethics. Key publications feature “Obscured by ‘Willful Blindness’: States’ Preventive Obligations and the Meaning of Acquiescence Under the Convention Against Torture” in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2021), “Asylum Seekers in a Time of Record Forced Global Displacement: The Role of Physicians” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (2019), “Multiple Nationality and Refugees” in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2014), “Buying Witness Silence: Evidence-Suppressing Settlements and Lawyers’ Ethics” in the Oregon Law Review (2008), and “The Character of the Questions and the Fitness of the Process: Mental Health, Bar Admissions and the Americans With Disabilities Act” in the UCLA Law Review (2001). He co-authored an article on clinical pedagogy with Professor James H. Stark, included in the Clinical Legal Education Association’s basic reading bibliography. Bauer has received major awards such as the Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award from the Connecticut Bar Association (2015), Constance Baker Motley Award from the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (2016), U.S. Attorney’s Office Affirmative Enforcement and Civil Rights Unit Award (2019), and Distinguished Service Award from the UConn Law School Alumni Association (2018). His public service includes past presidency of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center (2015–2019), board service with Connecticut Legal Services and other organizations, and faculty roles on university committees including the Gladstein Committee of the Human Rights Institute.