Honoring Your Impact

Nancy L. Buc ’69, an alumna of the University of Virginia School of Law, will fund the first of 20 new Research Professorships in Democracy and Equity at UVA.

The University of Virginia School of Law will officially launch its Honor the Future campaign Oct. 11 with a $400 million goal. As part of the broader $5 billion UVA campaign, the effort will position the school to continue to thrive and build upon its strengths into its third century.

With generous support from alumni and friends, the Virginia Loan Forgiveness Program helps make public service a more viable career option for graduates. Established by the Law School in 2001, VLFP covers the law school loan payments of accepted participants, making it financially feasible for them

Emerson Stevens, Darnell Phillips, Messiah Johnson, Bennett Barbour, Edgar Coker, and Gary Bush are a few of the incarcerated Virginians who have been released thanks to the efforts of the Law School’s Innocence Project. The Innocence Project began at UVA Law in 2008 as a yearlong, for-credit clinic

To launch the Law School’s bicentennial celebration, Martha Lubin Karsh ’81 and Bruce A. Karsh ’80 made a $44 million gift that renamed and expanded the school’s premier scholarship program, funded endowed professorships, and created the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, which promotes democratic

Since its inception in 2002, the Law School’s Human Rights Study Project has aimed to further the study of law protecting basic rights in foreign countries. By traveling abroad, students taking the course engage in a learning experience that brings their studies to life. Each year, equipped with a