Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
kevincope@virginia.edu
434-243-9115
Room SL259

ASSISTANT
Cynthia (Cindy) A. Derrick

SUBJECTS
Civil procedure, comparative law, federal courts, international law and litigation

Kevin Cope

Lecturer
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 2012
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 2004
B.A., Ohio State University, 2000

Kevin Cope’s research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of domestic and international public law in the United States and abroad, with emphasis on courts’ role in shaping rights and structural power arrangements. Cope came to the Law School after serving as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. He has completed clerkships for Judge James S. Gwin on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge George W. Miller on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Cope also practiced government enforcement litigation law in Washington, D.C., with Skadden, Arps, where he handled trial and appellate litigation, including constitutional, class action and political asylum actions. In law school, he served as an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.

In addition to researching and teaching doctrinal classes, Cope co-teaches the Law School’s Appellate Litigation Clinic.

Publications
In the Media

"In Sickness and in Health: The Constitution should give Americans the right to basic health care" (Co-Author) (Slate, 06/12/2012)