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A NOTE ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA:
The Law School has admitted 12 students from Tulane and Loyola law schools on a visiting basis, waiving their tuition, so that they can continue their course of study without further financial or educational disruption. To learn more about the warm reception these students received from their colleagues at the Law School, please see the article below. Here at the Foundation, we have received messages from a number of alumni who live and work in the affected areas. Thankfully there appears to have been no loss of life or serious injury. We will be sharing excerpts of their messages in the next issue of UVA Lawyer.
In This Issue:
Constitutional Law
Environmental Law
International Law/Human Rights
Law & Business
Legal Trends
Public Service
Alumni
Law School Community Welcomes Katrina Evacuees
The Law School opened its doors to 12 second- and third-year students from Tulane and Loyola of New Orleans law schools, just days after Hurricane Katrina made their educational future uncertain.
"Nebulous" Antitrust Law Can Lead to Controversy, Says Pate ‘87
Antitrust remains an ill-defined area of law, and whether consumer or economic welfare should be its underlying concern is still in question, said R. Hewitt Pate ’87, former Assistant Attorney General to the U.S. Justice Department, who delivered a brief tour of contemporary antitrust laws and practices to the Alumni Business Advisory Council Sept. 23.
Strategic Mergers Pay, Darden Dean Says
Contrary to popular belief, company mergers and acquisitions do pay over time for shareholders, as long as the merging businesses avoid a “perfect storm” of factors that can lead to financial disaster, said Darden Dean Robert Bruner at an Alumni Business Advisory Council session Sept. 23.
M&A Market Heating Up, Say Alumni
The specter of foreign labor and globalization hasn’t dimmed the prospects of a mergers and acquisitions market spurred by low financing rates and readily accessible money, alumni said at a Business Advisory Council session Sept. 23. “It’s going to be a hot 10 years” for M&A, said Pete Ruegger ’74, chairman of the Executive Committee at law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. “Globalization is going to cause U.S. companies to own pieces of companies in China and India.”
Professors Review Supreme Court Term, Rehnquist Legacy
Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist died Sept. 3 and the next day President George Bush announced that John Roberts, nominated to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, was instead nominated for the top job. For a court that had had no faces change for 11 years, things were suddenly happening fast, law professor A.E. Dick Howard observed to open the review of recent Supreme Court decisions that traditionally kicks off the fall semester. (video and podcast)
Adams ‘03 to Clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas
John Adams ‘03 had settled down to work in private practice after a postgraduate clerkship and a pre-law career as a naval officer when he heard one more call to duty. Adams was recently selected to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, starting in July 2006.
Conference to Explore Role of Humanities in Environmental Law
The School of Law will host “Environmental Letters/Environmental Law” Oct. 6-7, a cross-disciplinary conference organized to explore the impact of the humanities on environmental law and policy. Panels on ethics, criticism, history, and law will include leading writers and scholars from a variety of disciplines.
Competition, Globalization Changing Law Firm Business, Baxter ’74 Says
The private practice of law is being reshaped by business economics, said Ralph Baxter ’74, Chairman and CEO of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, at a Sept. 13 lecture sponsored by the Career Services Office. Job-seeking law students should be careful to examine a firm’s economic standing, business sense, and culture before accepting an offer of employment, Baxter told students gathered in Caplin Pavilion.
Damad Optimistic About Islam’s Compatibility with Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Practices in Islamic countries that violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are not the result of irreconcilable differences between Western and Islamic thought but of religious interpretations that change over time, according to Mohaghegh Damad, a professor of jurisprudence and law at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran.
Gilhuly ’06 Interns with International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Spending the summer interning for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, strengthened third-year law student Jennifer Gilhuly’s commitment to human rights, but also opened her eyes to how lawyers can affect the results of war crimes tribunals—and sometimes bring lofty ideals down to earth. “I had this sense of international criminal law, and I really put the work on a pedestal—I didn’t understand the human side behind it,” said Gilhuly, an Atlanta native. “I didn’t understand until I got there how these things got put together.”
Law School, Hunton & Williams Team Up to Serve Low-Income Residents
The Law School and Hunton & Williams LLP have established a pro bono partnership that provides free legal services to low-income Charlottesville and surrounding county residents. Volunteer lawyers and Law School students have started working together to represent clients with asylum, domestic violence, and family law problems.
Alumni Participation Highest Ever
How does Virginia Law’s alumni participation measure up? While most law schools at the top of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings have experienced declining alumni participation over the last few years, Virginia continues to rise, and currently leads them all, setting a new record in participation.
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