Activities & Organizations
The Law School supports a thriving community of about 50 student-run organizations, including several that contribute to international law scholarship opportunities.
The
Human Rights Study Project
The Project's mission is to further the study of law affecting the protection of basic rights in foreign countries. Each year a project team travels abroad to research human rights issues in a specific country and report their findings. Student teams have traveled to Cuba, Sierra Leone, and Syria and Lebanon, and will travel to China in 2006. More
on HRSP's Research Trip to Lebanon and Syria
The
John Bassett Moore Society of International Law
The J.B. Moore Society is a driving force in international law activities at the Law School. Each year, the Society hosts a symposium on topics such as the war on terror or corruption in foreign governments, as well as a lunch lecture series in which international law faculty and foreign graduate students present papers. The Society sponsors the Jessup International Law Moot Court team and coordinates with the Charlottesville office of the International
Rescue Committee to help recently settled refugees.
The
Virginia Journal of International Law
Now in its fifth decade, the Virginia Journal of International Law is the oldest continuously published, student-edited law review in the United States devoted exclusively to the fields of public and private international law. It is the most frequently cited student-edited journal of international and comparative law, according to a survey by Washington and Lee University School of Law, and the third most frequently cited student-edited specialty journal of any kind.
Virginia
Law Veterans
Virginia Law Veterans supports student members of the military community and serves as an information resource for anyone conducting
research on national security or international law and policy
issues. Membership is open to any interested person and does not
require any past or present tie to the military.