Bysiewicz Dedication - Reading Lounge, 1993 June 4

The Bysiewicz papers reflect Ms. Bysiewicz's time at the University of Connecticut School of Law from 1956 to 1989. Shirley R. Bysiewicz was the first women tenured professor at the School of Law. From 1956-1983 she served as Director of the Law Library. Concurrently, she was a professor of law and taught courses in woman and the law, juvenile law, elder law. legal research and writing, judicial clerkship clinic and legislation. Bysiewicz was known as an advocate of children's rights and authored the Juvenile Law Handbook. She also wrote other legal books, among them Dictionary of Legal Terms and Effective Legal Research. Bysiewicz was involved in many organizations outside the law school. She was appointed to the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, organized a committee on the status of women for the Connecticut Bar Association and was a member of the Association of American Law School Committee on Women in Legal Education.