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Anna F. Connolly

Titles

  • Associate Professor of Law

Contact

Phone: 802-831-1032

Biography

Anna F. Connolly joined the faculty of Vermont Law School in July 2021. Prior to that she was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP where her practice focused on international and domestic commercial litigation as well as pro bono matters. She has significant experience in cross-border disputes, securities litigation, antitrust, and representing sovereign governments.

 

She has won numerous awards for her pro bono work, including civil rights and immigration matters, as well as work on behalf of survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking. She was named a “Rising Star – The Top Women” by Super Lawyers in 2018. Professor Connolly served as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Cathy Seibel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

 

She received a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a James Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Law Review. She received an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College.

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Anna F. Connolly, Context Matters for Deep Knowledge: What Cognitive Science Can Teach Us About Legal Writing, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 475 (2024).
  • Anna F. Connolly, Match Mindsets for Better Communication (Vermont Bar Journal, Summer 2024)
  • Anna F. Connolly, Training Antifragile Lawyers (Vermont Bar Journal, Summer 2023).
  • Anna F. Connolly, An IDEA for Legal Writing (Vermont Bar Journal, Summer 2022).
  • Roger Cooper, Jared Gerber, and Anna Connolly, Sidestepping ‘Morrison’ Through Foreign Law Claims and Litigation, Financier Worldwide (2020).
  • Copyright & Plagiarism – The Venn Diagram, panel presentation at Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, July 18, 2024).
  • An IDEA for Legal Writing, presentation at Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, July 19, 2024).
  • Criminalizing Loitering for the Purpose of Prostitution, presentation to NY State Anti-Trafficking Coalition (2017) and to City University of New York (2017).
  • Anna Fleder & Darren Ranco, Tribal Environmental Sovereignty:  Culturally Appropriate Protection or Paternalism? 19 Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law 35 (2005).

 

Expertise

  • Legal Writing

Departments

  • Legal Writing

Courses Taught

  • Appellate Advocacy
  • Legal Writing II
  • Legal Research & Writing