Welcome to Virginia Law and Charlottesville, an energetic and cosmopolitan small city that retains all the ease and grace of traditional Virginia hospitality. Updated with tips from current law students, Home Sweet C'ville is a nuts-and-bolts guide to life at the Law School that will help you feel at home fast. Charlottesville is a fabulous college town with a few eccentricities—like streets that inexplicably change names and have idiosyncratic pronunciations. But its mysteries—and some shortcuts—are about to be revealed. Here's all you need to get around like a real insider.

Welcome from Dean John C. Jeffries, Jr.

What makes the University of Virginia Law School special? Like all the leading law schools, Virginia features gifted faculty, outstanding students, an exciting intellectual atmosphere, and career opportunities across the nation and around the globe. In these respects, Virginia is among the nation’s best. But what makes Virginia special? What does Virginia offer that others perhaps cannot? More

Welcome from Student Bar Association President Ryan K. Quillian

On behalf of the Student Bar Association, the law school’s student government, I would like to welcome you to what I and many others consider the greatest law school in the country. There are many reasons why we strongly believe that UVA is the best place in America to study law, but there are two in particular that stand out. More

Credits & Disclaimers

Please note that Home Sweet C'ville is not a complete listing of all Charlottesville has to offer. Check your phone book or the Web sites on our Getting Oriented: Resources page for complete, up-to-date information.

Home Sweet C'ville was updated in 2007 by law students Clare Wuerker and Jared David Scott and the Academic Communications Department. It has been updated in previous years by Elizabeth Katz and Andrea Lawhon in 2006, Andrea Parisi in 2005, by law student David Glazier in 2004, and in 2003 by law students Carly Milner, Allyson McKenzie, Katherine Peters, and Angie Sinkovits, as well as the Academic Communications department and Cindy Draper.