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A National Academies committee chaired by University of Virginia School of Law professor Margaret Foster Riley released a report that recommended including pregnant and lactating women in clinical research. The news is among other achievements and recognition for members of the Law School community.

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.

Professor Richard Bonnie is retiring from the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law after nearly 51 years of teaching and research, 44 years of death row advocacy, and decades of shaping public policy and law on drugs, mental health, youth offenders and guns.

During the past year, students in clinics at the University of Virginia School of Law won asylum for a transgender immigrant, negotiated reduced charges for juveniles and helped localities reform their government operations, among other accomplishments. Virginia’s 24 legal clinics , many of which

Clinic students at the University of Virginia School of Law worked with state lawmakers to draft bills on mental health and education, which were recently signed into law.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has shaken the public’s belief in the court’s legitimacy, political scientist James L. Gibson explains on the latest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.

The seventh annual Shaping Justice conference, aimed at inspiring students and lawyers to promote justice through public service, will take place Feb. 3 at the University of Virginia School of Law and will honor two difference-making alumni in the health care policy field.

New courses offered this winter and spring at the University of Virginia School of Law include International and Comparative Family Law, Dignity Law, and Trade Secret Law.

Biotechnology CEO Eric Broyles, a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will speak at the school’s orientation for new students. He reflected on the values that drove his career from corporate law firm associate to pursuing cancer treatments.

Professor John Monahan of the University of Virginia School of Law discusses how the science of predicting violence developed and how it shaped his own career on the “Common Law” podcast.

Living to age 100 — once the territory of the Guinness Book of World Records — is about to become a lot more common. To prepare, Americans will need to adapt laws revolving around family and relationships, according to Naomi Cahn, co-director of the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Professor Saikrishna Prakash was part of an American Law Institute initiative recommending changes to the Electoral Count Act, among other recent accolades for the Law School community.

Nevah Jones ’22, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, will help veterans with health claims as a 2022 Skadden Fellow.

New courses offered this winter and spring at the University of Virginia School of Law include Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, Barbarian Law, and New Frontiers in Neuroethics and Law.

Professor Margaret Foster Riley of the University of Virginia School of Law predicts that as COVID-19’s delta variant continues to spread and vaccines continue to receive FDA approval, states, schools and employers will make it harder to avoid vaccination.

Professor Lois Shepherd of the University of Virginia School of Law discusses her work on a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advisory committee exploring human research.

Ashley Anumba, an incoming member of the University of Virginia School of Law’s Class of 2024, hopes to compete in the Olympics the year she graduates.

New courses offered this fall at the University of Virginia School of Law include Lessons From COVID-19, Repugnant Transactions, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

University of Virginia School of Law faculty discuss news-making rulings from the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court term.

Professor Craig Konnoth of the University of Virginia School of Law will research bioethics in movement advocacy as a 2024 Greenwall Faculty Scholar.