Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
kendrick@virginia.edu
(434) 243-8633
Room WB171D

ASSISTANT
Crystal Smith

SUBJECTS
First Amendment (speech and press), torts

Leslie Kendrick

Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2006
D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2003
M.Phil., University of Oxford, 2000
B.A., University of North Carolina, 1998

Leslie Kendrick joined the faculty in 2008. Her research interests include torts and the First Amendment (speech and press).

Kendrick received a B.A. in classics and English as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her master's and doctorate in English literature at the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In law school she served as essays development editor for the Virginia Law Review and received numerous awards, including the Margaret G. Hyde Award, the Hardy Cross Dillard Scholarship, the Law School Alumni Association Best Note Award, the Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing, the Food & Drug Law Institute H. Thomas Austern Short Paper Award, and the Virginia State Bar Family Law Book Award. Before joining the faculty, Kendrick clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Hackett Souter.

Publications

"Speech, Intent, and the Chilling Effect," 54 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013).
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"Disclosure and Its Discontents," 27 J. L. & Pol. (2012).
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"Content Discrimination Revisited," 98 Va. L. Rev. 231 (2012).
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"Content Neutrality and Compelling Interests: The October 2010 Term," 98 Va. L. Rev. in Brief 14 (2012).
PDF

"The Lockean Rights of Bequest and Inheritance," 17 Legal Theory 145 (2011).
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"FDA's Regulation of Prescription Drug Labeling: A Role for Implied Preemption," 62 Food & Drug L. J. 227 (2007).
HeinOnline (PDF)

"A Test for Criminally Instructional Speech," 91 Va. L. Rev. 1973 (2005).
HeinOnline (PDF)

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