Accolades: Professor To Study Environmental, AI Challenges in Paris

Professor Michael Livermore will be in Paris this school year through a fellowship dedicated to addressing looming global challenges, among other recent accolades for the University of Virginia School of Law community.

Livermore, who teaches courses on environmental law, regulation, and law and technology, will study legal, ethical and political responses to human interactions with the environment, and with artificial intelligence, as the “Major Changes” Chair, hosted by Sorbonne University and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study.

Livermore is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and author or editor of four books, most recently “Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health.” He recently served as director of the Law School’s Program on Law, Communities and the Environment, or PLACE.

S.J.D. Candidate Wins Peace Scholarship

Marilyn Hajj, a 2025 S.J.D. candidate at the Law School, has been awarded a P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship.

The P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to women from outside the United States and Canada who are seeking advanced degrees in the U.S. or Canada with the expectation that students will use their education to make a positive impact and foster global peace, according to the P.E.O. website.

Hajj, a native of Lebanon and Fulbright scholar who studies tax law through the lens of poverty relief, was previously awarded a 2022-23 international doctoral fellowship from the American Association of University Women. She earned her LL.M. from UVA Law in 2020.

Faculty Join ALI Projects

Five professors have recently joined American Law Institute projects. Chinh Q. Le ’00 is an adviser with Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication. Professors Ashley Deeks, Kristen Eichensehr and Paul B. Stephan ’77 are advisers and Pierre-Hugues Verdier is part of the Members Consultative Group with Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States. The former will address the adjudication of high-volume, high-stakes, low-dollar-value civil claims, and the latter will address topics not already covered by the first iteration of that Restatement, which were treaties, jurisdiction and sovereign immunity.

Le is a visiting professor of practice at the Law School and formerly served as legal director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. Deeks is the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law and a Senior Fellow at UVA’s Miller Center. Eichensehr directs the National Security Law Center and is a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. Stephan is the John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, the David H. Ibbeken ’71 Research Professor of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. Verdier is the author of the book “Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance.”

Cahn, Ware Tapped as Karsh Fellows

Professors Naomi Cahn and Sarah Stewart Ware were named 2023-24 fellows with the UVA Karsh Institute for Democracy. “Is the Good Life Political? Civic Engagement, Ethics, and Student Well-Being” is the fellowship theme. Cahn and Ware’s project will explore how rhetoric used in judicial opinions and other legal writing affects broader civic engagement.

Cahn is the Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law and Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law, and co-directs the Family Law Center. Ware co-directs the Legal Research and Writing Program.

Robinson Named Communications Fellow

Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is among UVA’s 2023-24 Research Communications Fellows, named by the Office of the Vice President for Research. Through the program, fellows learn how to present their research clearly and concisely through presentations, a website, articles and on-air interviews, and learn about the resources available for faculty at UVA.

Robinson is the Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law and directs the school’s Education Rights Institute and Center for the Study of Race and Law. She is editor of “A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy” and co-editor of “The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity.”