News & Events — University of Virginia School of Law

5.9.12
Law School, PILA Give Record $483,074 in Summer Public Service Fellowships to 109 Students
The Law School and the student-run Public Interest Law Association will give 109 students more than $483,000 to fund their public interest jobs over the summer, PILA organizers said this week.

5.8.12
Dooley, a 'Master of Corporate Law,' Retires from Virginia Law After Four Decades
University of Virginia School of Law professor Michael Dooley, a widely recognized expert in corporate law and longtime chair of the Graduate Program Committee, is retiring after more than four decades at the Law School.

5.7.12
First Class of Public Service Program Participants Looks Back
Three years after the launch of the University of Virginia School of Law's Program in Law and Public Service, the first class of students who joined as first-years is preparing to graduate, better prepared to work for the public good.

5.15.12
Goluboff Receives Burkhardt Fellowship, Draws Attention to Unexplored History of Vagrancy Law
University of Virginia law and history professor Risa Goluboff's innovative work in legal history recently was recognized through two honors. On Thursday, the American Council for Learned Societies named Goluboff a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow, a $75,000 award that supports recently tenured scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The next day, the Organization of American Historians announced that she would be one of their distinguished lecturers.

5.15.12
Graduating Student Chris Wimbush Builds Bridge to Real-World Law
After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, Chris Wimbush will be clerking for a judge on the "Rocket Docket" — the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, nicknamed for its rapid handling of cases. It's a prestigious job, but it also suits Wimbush's nature.

5.10.12
O'Connell, a Pioneer of Insurance Law, Retires from Law School
Car insurance looked very different when University of Virginia law professor Jeffrey O'Connell first began studying it in the 1960s. It was expensive for policyholders, and 45 percent of seriously hurt accident victims weren't compensated at all. The cost of car accidents — auto damage, medical expenses, income loss — amounted to $5 billion annually, but auto insurers only paid out about 15 percent of that. Insurance companies focused on fighting claims in courts.

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