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Hello from Johannesburg, South Africa! I have spent most of my summer (winter here) working as an intern for the legal team at a field office of the International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group. The IFC’s mission is to support international development through

As an aspiring courtroom advocate, Zachary Ray's formal education will culminate with his graduation from the University of Virginia School of Law later this month. But his path to becoming a lawyer began when, as an undergraduate, he attempted to save his college track team from being disbanded.

University of Virginia School of Law student A.J. Collins ‘17 has been elected president of the Student Bar Association. His one-year term began March 1. Hometown : Rappahannock County, Virginia Prior Education : B.A., economics and political science with minors in math and the computer-based honors

As a sixth-generation student at the University of Virginia, second-year law student Phoebe Willis was on a mission: become the voice of the student body on the UVA Board of Visitors before leaving Grounds again. The board selected Willis on Feb. 19 to be its student member for the 2016-17 academic

Update: The Law School has launched a website for Diversity, Equity and Belonging . As Diversity Week kicks off at the University of Virginia School of Law today, student leaders from various organizations discuss the importance of diversity in their lives and how it has shaped them. Danielle M​oore

Two current University of Virginia School of Law students and five recent alumni now serving as clerks have been selected to join the U.S. Department of Justice through its Attorney General's Honors Program. The program is the largest and most prestigious federal entry-level attorney hiring program

This past semester I took Oceans Law and Policy with Professor John Norton Moore . In one of the lectures he mentioned the Rhodes Academy, an intensive three-week course designed for practitioners of oceans law and policy, offered by UVA Law's Center for Oceans Law and Policy . The prospect of

Posted August 1, 2006 I’m working as a legal intern for the New York Stock Exchange Regulation’s Division of Enforcement, the prosecutorial arm of the NYSE that is comprised of over 100 lawyers. During the summer, I assisted Enforcement lawyers in disciplinary actions against NYSE member firms for

Posted July 17, 2006 Greetings from Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina! With possibly the best location in the Balkans—surrounded by mountains and close to the sea—Sarajevo is a vibrant city struggling to regain its pre-war glory. Beginning in 1992, Sarajevo was the scene of the

Posted Aug. 18, 2006 I work at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania as a legal intern on the Military I Team in the Office of the Prosecutor. The ICTR was established by the United Nations to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide that took

Posted August 4, 2006 Greetings from Uganda, where I am working with a human rights NGO called International Justice Mission. For most of the summer, I have been working on an educational curriculum designed to inform the community about a widow’s right to inherit land when her husband dies

Posted August 9, 2007 Dear Friends: I am writing from Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, where for the last twelve weeks I have been working as a foreign law clerk in the office of Justice Asher Grunis of the Israeli Supreme Court. The Israeli legal system is based largely on British common law, with

Posted August 20, 2007 Dear Students: I'm writing to you from the South African city of Johannesburg. I am working at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand (known to students and faculty as "Wits"), one of South Africa's most famous universities and the

Posted August 1, 2007 Greetings from Tanzania! I am a legal intern in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. The ICTR was established by the United Nations to bring to justice those most responsible for the genocide that took place in

Posted June 23, 2005 On June 12 we had our annual "Walk the World" march to raise awareness about the problem of world hunger and to raise money for our work distributing food aid in times of both man-made and natural disaster. More than 200,000 people marched in 269 cities around the world. This

Posted June 27, 2007 Dear friends, I write to you from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where I am working this summer as an assistant in the political and economic section of the U.S. Embassy. So far, my work has been quite exciting. I’ve been given two subject areas, or “portfolios,” all my own

Posted June 27, 2005 Ramallah is an active and vibrant city, full of people, culture, and international activity. It is located in the West Bank/Occupied Palestinian Territories, and getting in and out requires gaining passage through a checkpoint maintained by the Israeli military. Qalandia

Posted June 12, 2005 My internship this summer brings me daily on a 30-minute walk to the Palata in Belgrade. Three of five State Union ministers, and the president of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (not to be confused with the president of Serbia or the president of Montenegro) have their

Posted July 26, 2005 My perception is that tension is rising in the area, especially with the approach of the "disengagement" from Gaza. I have made frequent trips to Jerusalem, and each time have run into emotional anti-disengagement protests. The protesters, draped in orange and waving flags