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E-Mail:
heytens@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-3229

Secretary/Assistant:
Sharon E. Hutchinson

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Subjects:
Civil rights, criminal procedure, death penalty, federal courts

Toby J. Heytens

Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2000
B.A., Macalester College, 1997

Toby Heytens joined the faculty in 2006. His research interests include civil procedure, civil rights litigation, criminal procedure, federal courts, and remedies. Heytens is currently on leave from the Law School, working as an assistant at the Office of the Solicitor General.

After graduating from law school in 2000, Heytens clerked for then-Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then served as a Bristow Fellow in the Justice Department’s Office of the Solicitor General. In 2002-03, Heytens clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. From 2003 to 2006, he worked at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where his practice focused on appellate litigation, including numerous civil rights cases and other pro bono matters. In 2005, Heytens was the principal author of an amicus filing in FAIR v. Rumsfeld, one of two briefs recognized in the Green Bag’s inaugural almanac of Exemplary Legal Writing.

During law school, Heytens served as articles development editor of the Virginia Law Review and received the Alumni Association Award for Academic Excellence for having the highest academic average in his graduating class. His student note, "School Choice and State Constitutions," received the Alumni Association Best Note Award and was a finalist in the American Bar Association’s nationwide Ross Student Writing Competition.

In the spring of 2005, Heytens served as a visiting assistant professor at Cornell Law School. His article, "Managing Transitional Moments in Criminal Cases," appeared in the Yale Law Journal’s March 2006 issue.

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