Faculty by Expertise

Administrative law
Admiralty law (law of the sea)
Affirmative action
Agency and partnership
Aging and the law
Animal law
Antitrust
Antitrust law
Appellate litigation
Arbitration
Banking regulations
Bankruptcy
Bioethics
Biotechnology
Business law
Campaign finance law
Child advocacy
Church and state
City government
Civil litigation
Civil procedure
Civil rights
Class action
Climate change
Cloning
Commercial law
Communications law
Comparative law
Computer crime
Conflict of laws
Conservation
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
Constitutional theory
Consumer law
Contracts
Copyright
Corporate governance
Corporate tax shelters
Corporations
Courtroom procedure
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice theory
Criminal law
Criminal procedure
Cyber law
Cybersecurity
Damages
Death penalty
Desegregation and integration
Disability discrimination and accommodation
DNA evidence
Drug law (criminal)
Economics
Education
Elder law
Election law
Elections
Emerging markets
Employment discrimination
Employment law
Energy policy
Environmental law
Equal protection
Estate planning and taxes
Ethics
EU tax and state aid law
European law
Evidence
Externships
Family law
Federal courts
Federalism
Feminism and law
First Amendment
First Amendment (church and state)
Food and drug law
Foreign affairs
Forensic methods
Forensic psychiatry
Free speech
Gender and law
Genetic testing
Global warming
Globalization
Health equity
Health ethics
Health law
Health policy
Human rights law
Immigration and refugee law
Innocence
Insurance law
Intellectual property
Inter-American human rights system
International business
International environmental law
International human rights
International law
International trade
Internet
Judging
Juries
Jurisdiction
Jurisprudence
Juvenile and family law
Juvenile justice
Law and economics
Law and philosophy
Law of war
Legal ethics
Legal history
Legal research and writing
Legal theory
Legislation\legislative process
LGBTQ rights
Litigation
Local government law
Marriage and divorce
Mass shootings
Mediation
Medical ethics
Medical liability and malpractice
Mental health
Mergers and acquisitions
Military tribunals
Mutual fund regulation
National security law
Native American law
Nonprofit organizations
Nuclear weapons and arms control
Oceans law
Oral advocacy
Patent law
Plea bargaining
Police
Political theory
Presidential powers
Privacy
Product liability
Professional responsibility
Property
Prosecution
Psychiatry and law
Psychology and law
Public health law
Quantitative methods/statistics in the law
Race
Rape
Real estate
Religion and law
Remedies
Reproduction/reproductive technologies
Rhetoric
Rule of law
Securities regulation
Separation of powers
Sexual discrimination and harassment
Social science in law
Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems
Special education
State and local government law
Supreme Court
Tax law
Terrorism
Torts
Trademark law
Transactional law and practice
Trial advocacy
Trusts and estates
United Nations
Urban law and policy
Venture capital
Violence
Virginia constitution
Virginia procedure
Voting rights
War crimes
War on terrorism
Workplace safety and health
Wrongful conviction
Kenneth S. Abraham
Barbara E. Armacost
Scott Ballenger
Aditya Bamzai
Charles Barzun
Michal Barzuza
Ruth Gaare Bernheim
Andrew Block
Richard J. Bonnie
Josh Bowers
Darryl K. Brown
D. Ruth Buck
Naomi R. Cahn
Jonathan Z. Cannon
George M. Cohen
Michael G. Collins
Kevin Cope
Anne M. Coughlin
Quinn Curtis
Ashley S. Deeks
Michael Doran
John F. Duffy
Kristen Eichensehr
Deirdre M. Enright
Joshua Fischman
Kim Forde-Mazrui
Joe Fore
Thomas Frampton
George S. Geis
Michael D. Gilbert
Jennifer L. Givens
Risa L. Goluboff
Paul Halliday
Rachel A. Harmon
John C. Harrison
Andrew Hayashi
Deborah Hellman
Toby J. Heytens
A. E. Dick Howard
Cathy Hwang
Rich Hynes
Cale Jaffe
John C. Jeffries Jr.
Alex M. Johnson, Jr.
Jason S. Johnston
Leslie Kendrick
Annie Kim
Edmund W. Kitch
Kevin A. Kordana
Douglas Laycock
Michael A. Livermore
Jessica Lowe
Julia D. Mahoney
Paul G. Mahoney
David A. Martin
Ruth Mason
Thomas A. Massaro
Dayna Bowen Matthew
Gregory Mitchell
John T. Monahan
John Norton Moore
Thomas B. Nachbar
Caleb E. Nelson
Cynthia L. Nicoletti
Dotan Oliar
Daniel R. Ortiz
Saikrishna Prakash
Richard M. Re
Margaret Foster Riley
Kimberly J. Robinson
George Rutherglen
A. Sprightley Ryan
Nelson Camilo Sánchez León
Robert Nelson Sayler
Frederick Schauer
Richard C. Schragger
Micah J. Schwartzman
John K. Setear
Molly Bishop Shadel
Sarah Shalf
Deena N. Sharuk
Lois Shepherd
Crystal Shin
Gil Siegal
A. John Simmons
Kent Sinclair
Lawrence B. Solum
Barbara A. Spellman
Paul B. Stephan
Megan T. Stevenson
Gregg Strauss
Leon Szeptycki
Pierre-Hugues Verdier
J. H. Verkerke
Mila Versteeg
Steven D. Walt
Sarah Stewart Ware
G. Edward White
Ann Woolhandler
Ethan Yale
George K. Yin
07/01/2020
Douglas Laycock, High Court Sparks New Battle Over Church-State Separation (The Associated Press)
07/01/2020
Douglas Laycock, Symposium: Espinoza, Funding of Religious Service Providers, and Religious Freedom (SCOTUSBlog)
06/30/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, A Modest Win for the Constitution (National Review)
06/30/2020
Deirdre M. Enright, Imprisoned for 24 Years: Innocence Project Says Richmond Man Should Be Freed (WVTF Radio)
06/30/2020
A. E. Dick Howard, The U.S. Supreme Court’s Recent Rulings (WINA Radio)
06/30/2020
Cale Jaffe, Season 2 Episode 2: Power Wears Many Disguises (The Meaning of Green)
06/29/2020
Micah J. Schwartzman, Should Americans Know Which Churches Received COVID-19 Stimulus Loans? (Deseret News)
06/29/2020
Kim Forde-Mazrui, SCOTUS Ruling and Virginia Values Act Will Protect LGBTQ+ Virginians in the workplace and Beyond (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
06/29/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Micah J. Schwartzman, The Separation of Church and State Is Breaking Down Under Trump (The Atlantic)
06/27/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Richard Schragger Column: Pandemics and Our Faulty Federalism (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
06/26/2020
Charles Barzun, Unoriginal Joke (Part III): Living Constitutionalism and Social Progress (Balkinization)
06/25/2020
Cale Jaffe, The Supreme Court Approved More Drilling Under the AT (Outside)
06/23/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, Trump, the Protests and the Insurrection Act (Octavian Report)
06/23/2020
Rachel A. Harmon, Videos of Alleged Police Misconduct Went Viral. Then What Happened? (Reuters)
06/22/2020
Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Northam’s Case for Removing Lee Statue Was Devised by a Lawyer Descended From Slaves (The Washington Post)
06/22/2020
John Norton Moore, Moore and Goldring on ‘Pandemics, National Security & Re-Balancing Health Care’ (Lawfire)
06/22/2020
Richard C. Schragger, City Council Waiting for Judge To Alter Injunction To Go Ahead With Process To Remove Confederate Monuments (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
06/21/2020
Rachel A. Harmon, Even if Congress Bans Chokeholds and No-Knock Warrants, Local Police Departments Might Not Comply (USA Today)
06/19/2020
, Founding Falsehoods (The American Scholar)
06/18/2020
Douglas Laycock, ‘Utah Compromise’ or Religious Liberty, Gay Rights? (Reflector)
06/18/2020
Kim Forde-Mazrui, Seeking To Learn More About Racial Justice? Start Here. (UVA Today)
06/18/2020
Risa L. Goluboff, G. Edward White, Interviews (John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court)
06/18/2020
Cale Jaffe, ‘Desperate’ To Get Natural Gas Out Of Appalachia, Pipeline Builders Face Long Battle Even After Supreme Court Victory (Forbes)
06/17/2020
Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Monument Avenue Residents Withdraw Federal Suit Supporting Lee Statue, Want Case Consolidated Locally (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
06/17/2020
Rachel A. Harmon, Rachel Harmon on Policing (Ep. 98) (Conversations With Tyler)
06/17/2020
Douglas Laycock, Are We Headed Toward a Federal Version of the Utah Compromise on LGBTQ Rights? (Deseret News)
06/17/2020
Naomi R. Cahn, The Best Ways To Land A Good Job: New Research On Authenticity (Forbes)
06/16/2020
Cale Jaffe, Pipeline Wins Appalachian Trail battle But May Lose War (E&E News)
06/16/2020
Anne M. Coughlin, Q&A: UVA Law Expert Dissects Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on LGBT Rights (UVA Today)
06/15/2020
Naomi R. Cahn, Supreme Court Protects LGBTQ+ Workers From Sex Discrimination (Forbes)
06/15/2020
Douglas Laycock, Christian Conservatives Rattled After Supreme Court Rules Against LGBT Discrimination (The Washington Post)
06/15/2020
Andrew Block, To Keep Youth In Their Communities We Must Keep Up the Momentum of Collaboration (Juvenile Justice Information Exchange)
06/15/2020
George Rutherglen, High Court Rules Civil Rights Law Protects LGBT Workers (Courthouse News Service)
06/12/2020
Rachel A. Harmon, Joe Biden Once Pushed for More Police. Now, He Confronts the Challenge of Police Reform (ABC News)
06/12/2020
Ashley S. Deeks, The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity Experts Give a Thumbs Up to the Apple-Google Coronavirus Alert System (The Washington Post)
06/12/2020
Mila Versteeg, Julia D. Mahoney, Civil Liberties and COVID-19 (The Federalist Society)
06/12/2020
Paul G. Mahoney, Regulation or “Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” (The Federalist Society)
06/11/2020
Jason S. Johnston, Government vs. Private Decision-Making and Address by Hon. Ajit Pai (The Federalist Society)
06/09/2020
Rachel A. Harmon, How Federal Dollars Fund Local Police (NPR)
06/09/2020
Charles Barzun, An Unoriginal Joke (Part II), or Why We are all Living Constitutionalists (Balkinization)
06/09/2020
Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Legal Fight Over Lee Statue Removal May Be Long (VPM)
06/09/2020
Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Injunction Blocking Lee Monument Removal Treads Complex Legal Ground. ‘I Wouldn’t Be Confident on Either Side.’ (Virginia Mercury)
06/09/2020
George Rutherglen, US Challenges Planned Expedition To Retrieve Titanic’s Radio (The Associated Press)
06/08/2020
Micah J. Schwartzman, Richard C. Schragger, The Quiet Demise of the Separation of Church and State (The New York Times)
06/06/2020
Rachel A. Harmon, Federal Agents Lacking Insignia in Protests Raise Accountability Concerns (The Wall Street Journal)
06/05/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Monument Fund Asks Judge To Dissolve Injunction Preventing Charlottesville Confederate Statue Removal (NBC29)
06/04/2020
Margaret Foster Riley, The Internet of Bodies Is Here. This Is How It Could Change Our Lives (World Economic Forum)
06/04/2020
Jessica Lowe, The Finalist of the 2019 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History is Jessica K. Lowe for her Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia. (The Langum Foundation)
06/03/2020
Deborah Hellman, Deborah Hellman, Moreau’s Pluralism About Discrimination (Centre for Ethics)
06/03/2020
Anne M. Coughlin, Will Police Enforce COVID Stay-Home Orders More Harshly Against Black People? (The Washington Post)
06/02/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, George Will and Sai Prakash on the Presidency (National Constitution Center)
06/02/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Virginia Beach Restaurant Abbey Road Sues Northam for Barring Indoor Dining (The Virginian-Pilot)
06/02/2020
, The Patriot Slave (The American Scholar)
06/02/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, What Is the Insurrection Act And Does it Give Trump the Authority to Send Military Troops Into States? Here’s What To Know (TIME)
06/01/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Schilling, Tobey’s Owner File Lawsuit Over Governor’s Mask Order (The Daily Progress)
05/29/2020
Ruth Mason, INSIGHT: The Time Has Come for State Digital Taxes (Bloomberg Tax)
05/29/2020
Kevin Cope, How Long Can Americans Live in a State of Emergency? (The Christian Science Monitor)
05/28/2020
Douglas Laycock, As Churches Reopen, Supreme Court Faces Balancing Act Between Physical and Spiritual Health (USA Today)
05/23/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, Trump Succeeds in Remaking Federal Judiciary (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
05/22/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, Trump Has Declared War on Inspectors General. The system Can Still Be Saved. (The Washington Post)
05/22/2020
Douglas Laycock, Why the Justice Department Is Backing This Small Virginia Church in the Country’s Reopening Debate (TIME)
05/22/2020
Micah J. Schwartzman, Trump Declares Places of Worship ‘Essential,’ Setting Up Standoff With Governors (Religion News Service)
05/21/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Responding to COVID-19: Federal, State, Local (UVA Miller Center)
05/21/2020
Jennifer L. Givens, ‘I Would Like To Clear My Name’: Man Who Claims He Is Innocent of 1985 Lancaster Murder Is Back in Court (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
05/21/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers (The Cato Institute)
05/20/2020
J. H. Verkerke, Should Law Firms Fear Latest Ruling in Jones Day Gender Bias Case? (The American Lawyer)
05/19/2020
Charles Barzun, The Oath Argument (Balkinization)
05/18/2020
Thomas Frampton, Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration? (The New Yorker)
05/18/2020
Richard J. Bonnie, Don't Abolish the Insanity Defense (The Hill)
05/18/2020
Risa L. Goluboff, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson (National Constitution Center)
05/16/2020
Cynthia L. Nicoletti, Historical Path Dependency and Secession (Balkinization)
05/15/2020
Thatcher A. Stone, Ready for Another Preboarding Probe? (Crain’s Chicago Business)
05/14/2020
Andrew Block, Andrew Block Column: Let's Come Together for Court-Involved Youth, Their Families and Their Communities (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
05/14/2020
Kenneth S. Abraham, Who Pays for the Pandemic When Insurance Companies Refuse? (Fortune)
05/13/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Micah J. Schwartzman, Churches Have Been Hypocritical During the Pandemic (The Washington Post)
05/13/2020
Mildred W. Robinson, A Federal Right to Education: From Brown to Rodriguez and What Lies Ahead (Center for American Progress)
05/12/2020
Kimberly J. Robinson, The Pandemic’s Lasting Effect on Education (Miller Center)
05/12/2020
Kimberly J. Robinson, UVA Panel Focuses on Lasting Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Education (NBC29)
05/12/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, ‘Faithless’ Electors Are Faithful to the Constitution (The Wall Street Journal)
05/11/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, Supreme Court Battle Over Donald Trump’s Finances Carries Risks for All Three Branches (USA Today)
05/11/2020
Kimberly J. Robinson, A Constitutional Right to Education Fulfills Our Democratic Promise (The Hill)
05/10/2020
Ruth Mason, Will Coronavirus Accelerate Digital Tax Adoption? (Brink News)
05/10/2020
James E. Ryan, Face The Nation: Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Eric Schmidt, Jim Ryan (Face the Nation)
05/10/2020
Naomi R. Cahn, COVID-19’s Impact On Women Of Color (Forbes)
05/08/2020
Kimberly J. Robinson, UVA Law Professor Kimberly Robinson On Legal Debate About Education As Federal Right (Pioneer Institute)
05/08/2020
Kimberly J. Robinson, A Constitutional Right to Education Fulfills Our Democratic Promise (RealClearEducation)
05/08/2020
Ashley S. Deeks, Did Former Green Berets Violate the 1794 Neutrality Act by Invading Venezuela? (Lawfare)
05/07/2020
Naomi R. Cahn, Returning To Work, Disability, And COVID-19 (Forbes)
05/07/2020
J. H. Verkerke, President Trump Described Meatpackers’ ‘Liability Problems.’ Here’s What That Could Mean for Workers. (The Counter)
05/07/2020
Andrew Hayashi, Local Governments Need More Revenue. Try Progressive Property Taxes. (The Washington Post)
05/07/2020
Mildred W. Robinson, Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education (Thoughts From the Lawn)
05/06/2020
Micah J. Schwartzman, Nuns Fight for Religious Exemption to Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate (Court TV)
05/05/2020
Richard C. Schragger, Second Amendment Sanctuaries and the Difference Between Home Rule, Local Recalcitrance, and Interposition (Duke Center for Firearms Law)
05/05/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, One Virtue of a Virtual Congress (The Hill)
05/05/2020
Douglas Laycock, Free Coverage for Contraceptives? Supreme Court Again Considers Religious Exemptions (USA Today)
05/04/2020
Micah J. Schwartzman, DOJ Claims Virginia Governor is Violating Religious Freedom With Pandemic Order (The Washington Post)
05/03/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, Saikrishna Prakash Column: Washington, Trump and Pandemics (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
05/02/2020
Saikrishna Prakash, The End of the Imperial Presidency (The Atlantic)
04/30/2020
John F. Duffy, Preview: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com (SCOTUSBlog)
04/30/2020
Lillian R. BeVier, Why a Written Constitution? (The Federalist Society)