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Midway through the fall semester, University of Virginia and Law School photographers Sanjay Suchak and Julia Davis share scenes of how life is continuing at the Law School during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Thomas Frampton of the University of Virginia School of Law recently won a man his freedom — live from the classroom.
Jela Shiver ’23, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses how his grandfather’s experience with redlining piqued an interest in property law.
Professor Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia School of Law finds in her new co-authored book that citizens’ ability and willingness to push back are essential to constitutional protections.
A record 108 University of Virginia School of Law alumni are clerking this term, including 20% of the Class of 2020.
Faculty and alumni at the University of Virginia School of Law are sharing memories and honoring the impact of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. She was 87.
The new Center for Law & Philosophy at the University of Virginia School of Law will serve as a focus for one of the strongest groups of legal theorists in the nation.
Professor Paul Stephan of the University of Virginia School of Law has been appointed special counsel to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Whitney Carter and Amalia Garcia-Pretelt are this year’s recipients of the Virginia Public Service Scholarship, a full-tuition award given to University of Virginia School of Law students who are pursuing public service careers.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors on Friday approved a resolution to remove the Withers name from the Law School’s Withers-Brown Hall, as part of the University’s ongoing re-examination of its historic landscape. The eastern wing of the school will now be known as Brown Hall.
Professor Ashley Deeks has been named director of the National Security Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law.
In 1920, three women ventured into the all-male halls of the University of Virginia School of Law for the first time as students.
With anti-Semitism surging globally, scholars are convening to discuss the role of law in combating religious and racial hatred, at a conference Sept. 10 co-hosted by the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Hayley Hahn ’21, a University of Virginia School of Law student, is the winner of the Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition for her paper on Native American law.
New courses examining race and law will be offered at the University of Virginia School of Law for the 2020-21 academic year.
The Class of 2023 is setting new records for gender and racial diversity at the University of Virginia School of Law. Women make up a majority of the first-year class for the first time in the school’s history, and the students are the most racially diverse in a decade.
University of Virginia School of Law third-year students Kunchok Dolma, Cat Guerrier, Maria Luevano and Wilson Miller have been named this year’s Ritter Scholars.
Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan ’97 welcomes the Class of 2023 and other new students to UVA Law via Zoom.
The University of Virginia School of Law has instituted the Elaine R. Jones ’70 Scholarship, named in honor of school’s first Black alumna. Genesis Moore ’23 is the inaugural recipient.
Six University of Virginia School of Law alumni were named among Law360’s Rising Stars of 2020 for their legal accomplishments in the past year.
Sarah Alsultan S.J.D. ’20, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses her paper on Arabian Peninsula countries’ tax rates that she’ll present virtually at a University of Oxford conference.
Professor Naomi Cahn will serve as the inaugural director of the new Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Dean Risa Goluboff discusses changes in operations at UVA Law for the fall 2020 semester, and shows how the school has modified the facility to safeguard the health of the community.
The return to classes will look different this year at the University of Virginia School of Law, and faculty and administrators are preparing for a semester unlike any other.
Incoming University of Virginia School of Law student Montell Brown, who started a scholarship fund for Black men headed to college, now hopes to help marginalized communities as an attorney.
Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan ’97, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate for the 2021 election and a University of Virginia School of Law alumna, will deliver a virtual orientation address to new students Monday.
Aspen Ono ’23 was a competitive figure skater and youth instructor before coming to the University of Virginia School of Law.
Trevor Floyd will build on his experience in professional theater as an incoming student at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Anna Cecile Pepper ’20, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses her scholarship studying students’ rights.
Professor Naomi Cahn, who joined the University of Virginia School of Law faculty this fall, has been named to two new professorships promoting the rule of law and democratic ideals.
Jasmine Lee ’20 leads a tour of the University of Virginia School of Law. This tour was taped with social distancing during the summer of 2020, and is supplemented with footage from before the pandemic.
Professor Rip Verkerke, Nooreen Reza ’21 and Eliza Schultz ’21 of the University of Virginia School of Law co-authored a public report they hope will spur changes to state living wage laws.
Avery Rasmussen ’21, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the 2023 term.
Noted legal theorist Lawrence B. Solum will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty.
Justice Cleo Powell ’82 of the Supreme Court of Virginia will deliver the commencement address to the University of Virginia School of Law’s Class of 2021.
Despite disruptions caused by the coronavirus, 47% of alumni gave to the University of Virginia School of Law during the 2019-20 annual giving campaign, which concluded June 30.
Recent University of Virginia School of Law faculty scholarship has contributed to the study of race and law, including offering pathways to reform.
Staff and faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law have been preparing for students’ return to Grounds this fall.
Megan Stevenson, an economist with a scholarly focus on criminal law, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in August.
Professor Frederick Schauer of the University of Virginia School of Law was named a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
Ben Saul ’22, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses his stint as a middle school teacher, and the teachers who inspired him growing up.
Jay Butler, an expert in international law and corporations, will serve as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law this year.
Could the United States ever file bankruptcy and restructure? Two University of Virginia School of Law professors assert in a new paper that it could.
An ad hoc committee appointed by the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law is exploring whether to recommend that the University rename Withers Hall, which is named after former Confederate soldier Henry Malcolm Withers, and is seeking community input.
Judge Julia Smith Gibbons ’75 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit gives “The Last Word” in the spring issue of UVA Lawyer.
University of Virginia School of Law faculty discuss news-making rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court term.
Clinic students at the University of Virginia School of Law scored important victories for underrepresented communities during the school year.
Christina Luk ’21, a University of Virginia School of Law student, discusses her path to law school, her work with the student newspaper and how making wontons gives her a sense of community.
Many books have been written about the threat of climate change. In “Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption,” Alice Hill ’83 and co-author Leonardo Martinez-Diaz offer an approach that they believe is unique: a comprehensive survey of the effects of global warming that are already underway, along with detailed policy suggestions for what to do about them.
Alumni of the University of Virginia School of Law discuss their lives 5, 10, 15 and 25 years after law school.
Cathy Hwang, an incoming professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses her new co-authored paper examining how pandemic cancellations have challenged contract law.
Just as a parent might say he could not pick a favorite child, Frederick Beinecke ’72, who stepped down in 2019 after five years as president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has a hard time choosing his favorite painting among the gallery’s renowned collection.
The Innocence Project at UVA Law on Wednesday welcomed to freedom client Rojai Fentress, who the clinic’s directors say was falsely convicted of murder as a teenager.
The reporters committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C., has provided legal resources to protect journalists for the past 50 years. That’s because when reporters are without representation or legal support, “You may think twice about publishing that story,” said Jennifer Nelson ’11, a staff attorney there and co-director of the Law School’s First Amendment Clinic.
Our nation’s recent presidential impeachment wasn’t the first time in modern history that we’ve asked the question: When is a payment a bribe?
Career paths sometimes turn suddenly, in places where we least expect. For Karla Smith ’95, a judge on the Montgomery County (Maryland) Circuit Court, it happened on a long bus ride to Canada in 1994.
Rachel Davidson Raycraft ’20 discusses her experiences in international law and public policy at the University of Virginia School of Law, including co-authoring a World Economic Forum paper.
Richard M. Re, an expert in criminal procedure, federal courts and constitutional law, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty.
National security law expert Kristen Eichensehr will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty as a tenured professor.
Maria Monaghan, a 2017 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito next term.
Sam Long ’22, a Marine Corps veteran and student at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named a 2020 Tillman Scholar.
Naomi R. Cahn, an influential scholar in the field of family law, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in the fall.
UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson discusses her chapter in the recent book, “A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy,” which she edited for NYU Press. Robinson says Congress could work with states and localities in an incremental fashion to close opportunity gaps. Robinson is the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law and a senior research fellow at the Learning Policy Institute.
UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson foresees new fights at the Supreme Court as litigants seek fairness in public school funding across the nation. Her new book, “A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy,” is published by NYU Press. Robinson is the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law and a senior research fellow at the Learning Policy Institute.
The year at the University of Virginia School of Law was marked by new achievements and milestones, even as the community was tested when classes moved online in the spring due to COVID-19.
Taz Jones ’20, a recent graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses how he helped create a community partnership to provide classmates meals and support local restaurants during the pandemic.
These eight University of Virginia School of Law students helped others when the pandemic moved classes online.
Professor Rachel Harmon of the University of Virginia School of Law has co-authored a new report offering concrete ways to implement police reform.
Find out what this year’s LL.M. Graduation Award recipient Krzysztof Kolakowski liked about the University of Virginia School of Law and Charlottesville.
Instructors of Seminars in Ethical Values courses at the University of Virginia School of Law share their book and film assignments as suggested summer entertainment.
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