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Professor Looks at Why Tesla May Settle in Texas, While X Found Its Spot in Nevada

February 15, 2024

After Elon Musk’s public spat with Delaware courts, University of Virginia School of Law professor Michal Barzuza has a theory for why Musk wants to incorporate Tesla in Texas instead of Nevada, the management-friendly state where his company X is incorporated.

Faculty

Law & Business

Scholarship and Research

Meet the New Leaders of the Virginia Law Review

February 14, 2024

The Virginia Law Review has named Courtney Capen Douglas as editor-in-chief for its 111th year.

Student Life

Risa Goluboff, Amanda Frost and Richard Re

Professors Discuss Supreme Court Ethics on ‘Common Law’ Kickoff

February 13, 2024

As ethics questions continue to swirl around the U.S. Supreme Court, University of Virginia School of Law professors discuss whether justices need more regulation on the sixth season kickoff of the podcast “Common Law.”

Faculty

Constitutional Law

Public Policy

Legal Theory and Jurisprudence

The Last Word

February 12, 2024

Whittington W. Clement, a 1974 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, recently ended a two-year term as the University of Virginia’s rector and reflects on a career that has entailed partisan and nonpartisan service roles alike, including seven terms in Virginia’s House of Delegates.

Who Needs Cupid? Professors Discuss the Legal Benefits and Challenges of Singlehood

February 9, 2024

University of Virginia School of Law professors Naomi Cahn and Barbara “Bobbie” Spellman discuss the legal implications of singlehood as Valentine’s Day rolls around.

Faculty

Faculty Q&A

Family Law

Professor’s TrialWatch Report Says Opposition Leader Faced ‘Sham’ Trial in Azerbaijan

February 8, 2024

University of Virginia School of Law professor Darryl Brown produced a Clooney Foundation TrialWatch report highlighting violations of international law and due process in the conviction of Azerbaijani opposition leader Tofig Yagublu.

Experiential Learning

Human Rights

Criminal Law

Faculty

International and Comparative Law

New Season of ‘Common Law’ Will Focus on ‘Free Exchange’ of Ideas

February 7, 2024

Listeners will get a glimpse into the kind of robust discussions that go on behind the scenes among luminary scholars on the sixth season of “Common Law,” the University of Virginia School of Law podcast, launching Feb. 13.

Faculty

Law School News

Scholarship and Research

Shaping Justice Conference Explores ‘(De)Criminalizing Poverty’

February 6, 2024

Students, alumni and public interest lawyers discussed how to “decriminalize poverty” at the eighth annual Shaping Justice conference Feb. 2 at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Fulfilling a Duty To Serve

February 05, 2024

UVA Lawyer

Alumni

Public Service

International and Comparative Law

Human Rights Study Project Explores Health Care Issues in Kenya

February 2, 2024

Students in the University of Virginia School of Law’s Human Rights Study Project traveled to Kenya to research global health interdependence, rights-based health care and women’s rights.

Student Life

Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

Experiential Learning

Health Law

Academics and Curriculum

Patent Pending for Lauren Grohowski ’26

February 1, 2024

First-year University of Virginia School of Law student Lauren Grohowski discusses her inventions and how her father’s experience as a lawyer fueled her interest going into law.

Intellectual Property

Retired U.S. Judge J. Michael Luttig ’81 Joins UVA Democracy Initiatives

January 31, 2024

J. Michael Luttig ’81, a prominent legal scholar and former U.S. Court of Appeals judge, joins the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy as its first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Democracy, a position sponsored in partnership with the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the Law School.

Alumni

Karsh Center

Law School News

Professor Leads Game-Changing Initiative for Measuring Judicial Ideology

January 30, 2024

A breakthrough new empirical initiative led by University of Virginia School of Law professor Kevin Cope could provide the most accurate estimate to date of federal judges’ ideologies, using computers to analyze lawyers’ written observations.

Faculty

Empirical Legal Studies

Legal Theory and Jurisprudence

Scholarship and Research

BLSA Members Aid Women and Refugees in Service Trip to Cape Town

January 29, 2024

Members of the University of Virginia’s Black Law Students Association journeyed to Cape Town, South Africa, for their annual service trip abroad, volunteering pro bono hours to refugees and mothers while discovering memorable cultural connections.

Student Life

International and Comparative Law

Public Service

In Memoriam: Everette Doffermyre ’73, Double Hoo and Dedicated Fundraiser

January 29, 2024

Ruth Mason, EU Court of Justice President Deliver Lectures at New Max Planck Institute Hub

January 25, 2024

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Ruth Mason and Koen Lenaerts, president of the Court of Justice of the European Union, helped kick off the newly established Max Planck Hub Fiscal and Social State and its lecture series “The Future of the Fiscal State and the Social State in the European Union.”

Tax

Faculty

Scholarship and Research

International and Comparative Law

Law & Business

Third-Year Student Wins Swanson Award

January 25, 2024

Keegan Hudson, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, is this year’s recipient of the Gregory H. Swanson Award, which recognizes courage, perseverance and a commitment to justice within the community.

Law School News

Student Life

Jonathan Lowy ’88 and Emily Ponder Williams ’14

Two Alumni Honored for Shaping Justice

January 24, 2024

Two University of Virginia School of Law alumni — Jonathan Lowy ’88, a gun-safety advocate, and Emily Ponder Williams ’14, a civil litigator for criminal defendants — will be honored for their public service work at the eighth annual Shaping Justice conference Feb. 2.

Alumni

Public Service

Events

A One-Man Sports Group

January 22, 2024

Over the past four decades, hundreds of professional, collegiate and amateur athletes have hired Donald Jackson, a 1990 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, to represent them in disputes from NCAA compliance issues to contracts, family law matters and beyond.

Alumni

Private-Sector Careers

Law & Business

Catching Up With Alumni

January 19, 2024

Four alumni — Maggie Birkel ’19, Billy Easley ’13, Kristina Yost ’08 and Peter Bowden ’98 — discuss the paths their careers have taken 5, 10, 15 and 25 years after graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Private-Sector Careers

Law & Business

Law and Technology