Phone: (434) 924-3436

E-mail: jjeffries@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): Criminal law, constitutional law, federal courts, civil rights, civil procedure, First Amendment, Supreme Court

All Courses: Civil Rights Litigation, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Seminar in Ethical Values

In the media:

• "Dean's List: Jeffries Looks Forward to Teaching" (The Hook, 01/03/2008)
• "Questions for Obama" (Washington Post, 09/30/2007)
• "UC Irvine Aborts Hiring Chemerinsky as Law School Dean" (Los Angeles Times, 09/13/2007)
• "Calif. Law School Dumps Chemerinsky as Founding Dean" (Law.com, 09/13/2007)
• "State Briefs: News Near You" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 09/07/2007)
• "UVA Dean to Step Down/Jeffries to Go Back to Teaching Following Sabbatical" (Charlottesville Daily Progress, 09/06/2007)
• "The UVA Law School Celebrates a Banner Year for Gifts" (WINA 1070 AM, 07/31/2007)
• "Bad Heir Day/How Sandra Day O'Connor Became the Least Powerful Jurist in America" (Slate, 07/09/2007)
• "National War Powers Commission, Checkpoint Charlie Memorial, Jewish Film Festival..." (Metro NC, 05/02/2007)
• "Duke Law School Names New Dean/David Levi Now Is Chief U.S. District Judge in California" ((Durham) NC Herald-Sun, 01/04/2007)
• "A Fair Argument" (Lynchburg News & Advance. , 03/19/2006)
• "Politics Colors Confirmation/Nominee Gets Ready for Intense Grilling by Democrats" (The Houston Chronicle , 09/11/2005)
• "The Rehnquist Legacy: 33 Years Turning Back the Court/Chief Justice Came to Recognize Limits On His Power to Fight Liberal Drift" (The Washington Post, 09/05/2005)
• "Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies" (The Washington Post/Canton (Ohio) Repository, 09/04/2005)
• "Judging Roberts; He's Conservative, But Apolitical; Confident, Not Cocky" (Newsweek, 08/01/2005)
• "Incremental Change on the Court/Bottoms Up" (The New Republic, 07/21/2005)
• "Counter Evolution" (The New Republic, 07/05/2005)
• "In List of Potential Justices, Many Kinds of Conservative" (The New York Times , 07/02/2005)
• "The Court's First Woman Often Had the Final Say" (The Houston Chronicle, 07/02/2005)
• "Law Educators Speak about O'Connor Legacy" (The Virginian-Pilot, 07/02/2005)
• "Supreme Court Actions Seen Curbing Bush Agenda" (NPR "Morning Edition", 07/05/2004)
• "Star Power: Top Law Professors Are a Hot Commodity, and Schools Are Scrambling to Keep Them" (National Law Journal, 06/14/2004)
• "Supreme Court Turnover Likely/The Next President May Fill Several Vacancies, Experts Say" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 04/24/2004)
• "Virginia Tech's Top 30 Ambitions Hurt—School Slides Again in Rankings" (Roanoke Times & World News, 04/02/2004)
• "Papers of Roe-Wade Author to Be Released" (The Los Angeles Times, 02/29/2004)
• "Analysis: Justices Wrap Up Term with Major Rulings" (NPR, "Morning Edition", 07/03/2003)
• "Court's Ruling Bows to History; O'Connor's View Resembles Powell's in Bakke Case" (Detroit News, June 24, 2003) (Detroit News, 06/24/2003)