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 Paul G. Mahoney

“It was the best three years of my life. I wish I could go back and do it all over again.” Ask a Virginia graduate about his or her time in law school and you will probably hear some variant of that quote. It captures part of what makes Virginia stand out among the nation’s top law schools — an unparalleled student experience. 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 has been updated over the years by the Communications department, Cindy Draper and former law students Clare Wuerker, Jared David Scott, Elizabeth Katz, Andrea Lawhon, Andrea Parisi, David Glazier, Carly Milner, Allyson McKenzie, Katherine Peters, and Angie Sinkovits.