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Shielding Sanctuary Cities

December 26, 2017

Latest Skadden Fellow to Work on Behalf of Immigrant Victims of Workplace Crimes, Labor Exploitation

December 11, 2017

Cory Sagduyu, a third-year University of Virginia School of Law student, has received a Skadden Fellowship to work on behalf of immigrant victims of workplace abuses.

Immigration Law

Public Service

Expect ‘Thunder and Lightning’ at Supreme Court This Term, Professor Howard Says

September 12, 2017

The next Supreme Court term could see “bolts of thunder and lightning,” compared to “an uncommonly quiet” term last year due to the lack of a ninth justice, said A. E. Dick Howard , a University of Virginia School of Law professor. Howard and other UVA Law faculty members will discuss the last term

Sanctuary Cities May Point to Future of Immigration Enforcement, Says Professor Barbara Armacost

June 7, 2017

The sanctuary cities movement, motivated by President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, shouldn’t be viewed as a simple knee-jerk political reaction by state and local authorities to sweeping federal policy, a University of Virginia School of Law professor says. In her recent paper, “

Scholarship and Research

Law Students Help Seasonal Farm Workers Know Their Rights

October 19, 2016

Each fall, students with the Migrant Farmworker Project at the University of Virginia School of Law check in on 13 farms in the region to ensure seasonal agricultural workers get the pay and fair treatment they are entitled to under the law.

Law Students Help Seasonal Farm Workers Know Their Rights

October 19, 2016

David Martin, Shaper of Immigration Policy, to Retire After 36 Years at UVA Law

June 01, 2016

When University of Virginia School of Law Professor David Martin looks back on his career, he sees himself as an academic first, and a high-profile public servant second.

Student Team to Tackle International Humanitarian Law in Competition on Home Turf

March 24, 2015

A team of University of Virginia School of Law students will defend the school's title in an international humanitarian law competition in Charlottesville the week of March 30. The final round, which is open to the public, will be held April 3 at 3:30 p.m. in Caplin Auditorium at the Law School

Immigration Law

International and Comparative Law

David Martin, Jacqui Merrill, Taylor Steffan and Matt Brooker

In the Desert and on the Docket, UVA Law Students Give Back During Alternative Spring Break

March 20, 2015

From helping poor defendants on crowded court dockets in New York and Louisiana, to providing relief to migrants in the Arizona desert, University of Virginia School of Law students aided legal and humanitarian efforts last week as volunteers through an alternative spring break program. The law

Symposium to Explore Solutions to Immigration Enforcement

October 16, 2014

Scholars and former government officials will gather next week to discuss more stable and sustainable approaches to immigration control during a symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Faculty

Immigration Law

Law School News

Kerry Abrams and Kent Piacenti '12 Investigate How Immigration Law Decides Rights of Parentage

July 17, 2014

University of Virginia law professor Kerry Abrams explores how immigration and citizenship law decides who receives rights of parentage in her new paper, " Immigration's Family Values ," which was co-authored with 2012 UVA Law graduate Kent Piacenti and published this month in the Virginia Law

From Dark Days to a Brighter Future, Immigration Law Clinic Helps Clients Triumph Over Abuse

May 9, 2014

A filmmaker seeking asylum from political persecution, a young mother applying for a visa following threats by her boyfriend, and a man hoping to retain his residency after being abandoned by his U.S. citizen wife are three of the people helped by University of Virginia School of Law Immigration Law

Immigration Law

UVA Law Students Pen Legislation to Protect Immigrants from Being Scammed

April 4, 2014

When two University of Virginia School of Law students graduate this spring, they will not only go on to practice law, it looks like they will be able to say they helped make law, too. A bill championed by Julianne Jaquith and Roxana Miller to protect unsuspecting immigrants in the Commonwealth from

Immigration Law

Talukder '14 Receives EJW Fellowship to Help Immigrant Survivors of Sex Trafficking, Domestic Violence

January 6, 2014

Third-year law student Sabrina Talukder has been awarded a prestigious Equal Justice Works Fellowship to help noncitizen survivors of sex trafficking and domestic violence in New York City who are facing possible deportation. As part of the two-year fellowship, Talukder will launch a new program at

UVA Law Students Help Teen Human Trafficking Victim Gain Lawful Immigration Status

July 31, 2013

Two University of Virginia law students recently played a key role in obtaining lawful immigration status for a teenager from El Salvador who was forced to smuggle drugs across the desert and into the United States. Rising third-year law students Julianne Jaquith and Sabrina Talukder were among

Immigration Law

International and Comparative Law

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Public Service

Student Life

Over Spring Break, UVA Law Students Assist Low-Income Clients, Immigrants

March 29, 2013

Thirty University of Virginia law students spent their spring break this year providing pro bono legal services and humanitarian aid, traveling as far away as the Arizona border with Mexico to assist the indigent. Students participating in the Public Interest Law Association's fifth alternative

Southern Poverty Law Center Legal Director Mary Bauer '90 to Discuss Modern Civil Rights Struggle in Honor of MLK Day

January 28, 2013

Mary Bauer, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center and an alumna of the University of Virginia School of Law, will speak at the Law School as part of UVA's annual commemoration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Mary Bauer Bauer, who guides the SPLC's legal advocacy and its

At Annual Supreme Court Roundup, UVA Law Professors Explain Health Care, Immigration Decisions

September 25, 2012

Before a packed crowd of students and faculty in Caplin Pavilion, a panel of three University of Virginia law professors explained the most important Supreme Court decisions of the 2011-12 term, including cases involving the federal health care law and Arizona's immigration statute. At the annual

Legal Theory and Jurisprudence

Public Policy

Judge Overturns Robbery Conviction of UVA Law Clinic Client Facing Deportation

September 14, 2012

A judge in Fairfax County Circuit Court on Thursday reversed the 2010 robbery conviction of a 22-year-old client of the University of Virginia School of Law's Innocence Project Clinic and the law firm McGuireWoods. The judge, Randy I. Bellows, found that prosecutors committed a Brady violation when

Criminal Law

Faculty

Immigration Law

Melissa Reilly-Diakun '14: Monitoring Compliance With Law in Local Liberian Villages

August 1, 2012

With just a few weeks left in my summer internship, I feel that I have finally become an asset to the team I am working with here in a rural part of Liberia. I am working with the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, known as JPC in the community, on an Access to Justice project that is organized

Immigration Law

Student Life