Called a transformational figure who led the University of Connecticut School of Law during a time of growth and prosperity from 1990 to 2000, former dean Hugh Macgill died Thursday morning. He was 79.

Macgill was best known for his years as dean. But Friday, former students in his popular constitutional law and legal history classes also remembered him as a dynamic professor with a knack for engaging would-be attorneys.

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