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Dev Ranjan ’23 has been named a Bristow Fellow and will spend a year working with attorneys in the U.S. Justice Department’s Solicitor General’s Office.

Third-year students Jake Flansburg and Malia Takei won the 96th William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition at the University of Virginia School of Law on Thursday.

Professor Deborah Hellman was recently named president of NOMOS: the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, among other recent accolades for the University of Virginia School of Law community.

Professor Amanda Frost of the University of Virginia School of Law examines proposals to enact term limits and a binding code of ethics for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

University of Virginia School of Law alumnus John Kendrick published a student note that may have influenced the Supreme Court’s Corner Post decision, served as an amicus curiae for the proceedings.

In light of the recent Grants Pass ruling, Professors Kevin Cope and Mila Versteeg at the University of Virginia School of Law explain how courts have shifted public policy on the homeless.

In the wake of a shifting U.S. Supreme Court, University of Virginia School of Law professor Saikrishna Prakash’s new paper with Cass Sunstein looks at how and why radical constitutional change occurs.

Roger L. Gregory, the first Black judge to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, explained his view of the Constitution and the value of collegiality in a talk at the University of Virginia School of Law.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson took her seminar students to the U.S. Supreme Court to meet her law school roommate, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Sean Gray ’24 and Lauren McNerney ’24 recently won their case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit through the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Katharine Janes, a 2021 J.D.-M.A. graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will clerk for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2024 term.

The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Program that will expand opportunities for appellate advocacy and build upon synergies between related clinics, their dockets, and the Law School’s faculty and alumni in the appellate bar.

Two clinic students at the University of Virginia School of Law succeeded in a federal court appeal, allowing their client to remain in the U.S. after facing deportation to Ukraine.

Professor Xiao Wang of the University of Virginia School of Law has won an Association of American Law Schools award for his paper on the increase and success of religious freedom lawsuits.

Professor Payvand Ahdout of the University of Virginia School of Law has won an Association of American Law Schools award for her paper on federal appellate courts avoiding separation-of-powers questions.

Third-year students Sean Gray and Aquila Maliyekkal won the 95th William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition at the University of Virginia School of Law on Thursday.