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Scholars discuss Professor Paul B. Stephan’s new book, “The World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future,” which offers insights about the history and shaky future of the international order. Panelists include Professor Anne van Aaken of Universität Hamburg, Kathleen Claussen of Georgetown University and Thomas H. Lee of Fordham University. UVA Law professor Jay Butler moderated the event.
With deposit deadlines just around the corner, prospective law students have just a few weeks left to decide where they will matriculate this fall. UVA Law student ambassadors James Hornsby ’24 and Laura-Louise Rice ’25 join Dean Blazer for a candid discussion about the various factors that go into selecting which law school to attend. From rankings to financial considerations to employment outcomes and more, Hornsby and Rice offer advice for how to navigate this important life decision.
Rappahannock Chief Anne Richardson shared her story of loss, dignity, land reclamation and renewal with students studying Native American law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Jon Urick ’13, associate chief counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, argues that shaming lawyers who represent politically unpopular clients threatens the rule of law. The event was hosted by the Federalist Society chapter at UVA Law.
At its founding in 1819, Thomas Jefferson wanted UVA Law to prepare leaders and lawyers to serve the new nation, but students desired more practical legal training. Professor David Konig joins us to describe the shifting landscape of early nineteenth-century legal education.
For the second year in a row, several members of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Virginia School of Law traveled to South Africa for the group’s international service trip. This year they conducted legal research on international hate speech.
Antonella Nicholas, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, recently presented a paper she co-authored with Professor Andrew Block analyzing rural inequities in her home state.
Cleo Powell ’82 and Blake D. Morant ’78 received the Black Law Students Association’s A. Donald McEachin Spotlight Award at the group’s spring gala on March 18.
Facial recognition technology is used for everything from unlocking your phone to locking up criminals. UVA Law professor Elizabeth Rowe makes the case that biometric data like your face and fingerprints should have trade secret-level protections.
Facial recognition technology is so powerful and rife with the potential to be misused that stronger consumer protections for biometric data are essential, says Professor Elizabeth A. Rowe on the season finale of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.
A new podcast, “Legal Knowledge,” produced by the Arthur J. Morris Law Library’s Special Collections department, will explore the history of the University of Virginia School of Law.
In the year since the Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic started at the University of Virginia School of Law, students have helped free five people imprisoned in Louisiana, launched a program to educate incarcerated people about financial literacy and entrepreneurship, and connected dozens of clients with the services needed to rebuild their lives.
University of Virginia School of Law students volunteered 2,120 hours of pro bono service across the country during an alternative spring break program this month.
Second-year law student and Black Law Students Association President Keegan Hudson discusses building community, “mowing your own grass” and tuning out misinformation when it comes to applying to law school.
Professor Bertrall Ross leads a conversation on the different sources and consequences of “participatory inequality” in elections between the rich and the poor, and discusses whether campaigns are evolving to address the problem and whether law can offer a solution. The lecture was sponsored by the Law School Foundation. Dean Risa Goluboff provides an introduction.
The new Student Bar Association president, Tommy Cerja IV, says he aims to make every student feel welcome and celebrated at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Professor Sarah Shalf ’01 describes the benefits and successes of the 24 clinics at the University of Virginia School of Law, and how the enrollment process is changing moving forward.
Women have been enrolled, and working at, the University of Virginia School of Law for more than 100 years. Take this quiz to test your knowledge about highlights from the last century for Women’s History Month.
Five University of Virginia School of Law students and alumni will join the federal government in the fall through attorney honors programs.
What makes people and organizations obey — or resist — the law? Social scientist Susan S. Silbey, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses her life’s work on the subject.
Social scientist Susan S. Silbey discusses her life’s work on why people and organizations do and don’t obey the law for the latest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Paul B. Stephan, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a former adviser to multiple presidents and foreign governments, offers insights about the history and shaky future of the international order in his latest book, “The World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future,” published by Cambridge University Press.
Dean Risa Goluboff of the University of Virginia School of Law has been appointed to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, which continues to publish the multivolume work documenting the history of the court.
Selecting a law school to attend is ultimately making a decision to join a lifelong community. University of Virginia Law School Foundation Chief Development Officer Jason Trujillo ’01 shares what makes the UVA Law alumni network so special, and how students benefit from it both while in school and long after graduation.
Veronica Dragalin ’11 was appointed Moldova’s chief prosecutor for corruption last August. The University of Virginia School of Law alum, who was born there 37 years ago, left her work as an assistant U.S. attorney to take on the role.
Professor Melissa Murray of the New York University School of Law delivers the keynote address for the symposium “Dobbs and Democracy.” UVA Law professor Bertrall Ross moderated the discussion. The event was co-sponsored by the Journal of Law & Politics and the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.
Neil H. MacBride ’92, general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, delivers the keynote address for the conference “Regulating Conflict and Competition: The Economic Levers of National Security.” Professor Kristen Eichensehr opened the conference, and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced MacBride. The event was sponsored by the Law School’s National Security Law Center.
Second-year student Sean Onwualu, a former Syracuse football player and sports agency extern, discusses his most interesting classes and meeting Justice Stephen Breyer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, who have advanced LGBT rights as lawyers in India, have been named this year’s recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
Professor Robert Schütze of Durham University discusses his chapter “Limits to the Union’s ‘Internal Market’ Competence(s): Constitutional Comparisons,” published in the book “The Question of Competence in the European Union.” Professor Georg Kofler of Vienna University of Economics and Business provides commentary. UVA Law professor Ruth Mason and Oxford University professor Tsilly Dagan also discuss the work. This event was held as part of the “Tax Meets Non-Tax” Oxford-Virginia Legal Dialogs workshop series that builds bridges from tax to other kinds of scholarship.
Scholars discuss Professor Danielle Citron’s new book, “The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age,” which makes the case for understanding intimate privacy as a civil and human right. Panelists include University of Pennsylvania law professor Anita L. Allen, George Washington University law professor Daniel J. Solove, and Northeastern University law and computer science professor Ari E. Waldman. UVA Law professor Deborah Hellman moderated the event and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced the speakers.
One year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, three international law and national security experts at the University of Virginia School of Law assess the impact and legacy of the war.
The federal process for reviewing proposed interstate natural gas pipelines was highly contentious several decades ago and is now more of a rubber stamp. UVA Law professor Alison Gocke looks at what changed.
A federal agency responsible for reviewing requests to build interstate natural gas pipelines almost always approves them. Professor Alison Gocke explores the reasons why on the latest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.
UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson discusses her co-edited book “The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity,” in which scholars also propose federal, state and local reforms. Professor Richard Schragger moderated the event, which was part of the 2023 Virginia Law Review Online symposium, “50 Years After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez: New and Old Fights for Equity in Public Schools.”
Jennifer McClellan ’97, a University of Virginia School of Law alumna, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday in a special election, making her the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress.
St. Mary’s University law professor Albert Kauffman discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court case San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez continues to affect school funding. Kauffman, who delivered the keynote address for the 2023 Virginia Law Review Online symposium, was introduced by Angela Ciolfi ’03, executive director of the Legal Aid Justice Center. Kauffman represented the plaintiff in Rodriguez, Demetrio Rodriguez, and others in a number of influential state court cases on the same issue following the Supreme Court decision.
In the coming weeks, many students at the University of Virginia School of Law will be trying out to join one of the school’s 10 academic journals. Here’s a look at what each publication offers as prospective members consider which journal may be the right fit.
Chris Gilliard, part of the inaugural class of Just Tech Fellows at the Social Science Research Council, talks to Professor Danielle Citron about the impact of “luxury surveillance” — surveillance consumers pay for, such as smart home and fitness tracking devices. The event was sponsored by the school’s LawTech Center and Law, Innovation, Security & Technology (LIST).
Energy finance lawyer Megan Strand has been coaching the University of Virginia School of Law’s Jessup International Law Moot Court team, which heads into super-regional rounds this weekend, for the past 15 years.
Ukrainian national Olena Protsenko was working on a postdoctoral research project at the University of Virginia School of Law when her homeland was invaded. With the help of eight UVA Law students, she is suing Russia on behalf of individual clients for war crimes in the European Court of Human Rights.
First-year UVA Law student Mackenzie Kubik joins Dean Blazer for a candid discussion about 1L year — which fears are founded (and which are not!), what to look forward to and what steps you can take to set yourself up for success. Kubik also offers advice to applicants currently facing the home stretch of the 2022-23 admissions cycle.
Biruktawit “Birdy” Assefa, a second-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review.
Members of the University of Virginia School of Law community have recently been singled out for excellence. Among the accolades, Dean Risa Goluboff has been named to the Equal Justice Works board of directors.
University of California, Berkeley professor Jennifer Skeem discusses empirical guidance for shifting programs and practices to improve outcomes for high-need, high-risk populations involved in the justice system. Skeem’s talk was the 18th P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry, sponsored by the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, and the University’s schools of Law and Medicine. UVA Law professors Richard Bonnie ’69 and John Monahan introduce the event.
A symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will explore how a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has shaped clashes over equity in education, both past and present.
Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit discusses the importance of diversity and accountability in the legal profession, then joins a conversation with Mark C. Jefferson, UVA Law’s assistant dean for diversity, equity and belonging. The event was part of the Breaking Grounds Speaker Series, sponsored by the Black Law Students Association as part of Black History Month.
Political scientist James L. Gibson discusses his survey data suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court lost some legitimacy in the eyes of the public after overturning Roe v. Wade.
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.
University of Virginia School of Law student Helen Song ’23 will assist survivors of human trafficking as the 22nd Powell Fellow in Legal Services.
Experts at a symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will explore how abortion rights advocates may reclaim reproductive rights through the democratic process after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
Eight University of Virginia School of Law students traveled to Argentina to learn about human rights initiatives in Latin America in the aftermath of a Dirty War and military dictatorship.
Public service auction winner Jeremy Kass ’23 reflects on his path to UVA Law and his future career as a tax attorney. This episode also explores UVA’s Public Interest Law Association and the many resources the organization provides to law students committed to working in the public interest.
A symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will examine how current international strife can predict a future conflict between China and Taiwan.
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.
The University of Virginia School of Law remained No. 1 in Best Quality of Life and rose to No. 2 in Career Prospects in The Princeton Review’s annual law school rankings, which were released Tuesday.
John Charles Thomas ’75 (Col ’72), the first Black justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia, discusses the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and how his struggles reverberate today. Dean Risa Goluboff interviewed Thomas and presented the Gregory H. Swanson Award to Yewande Ford ’23. Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui introduced Thomas. The event was part of the University’s 2023 Community MLK Commemoration.
Yewande Ford, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, is this year’s recipient of the Gregory H. Swanson Award, which recognizes courage, perseverance and a commitment to justice within the community.
Professor A. E. Dick Howard ’61 of the University of Virginia School of Law has received the Virginia Bar Association’s Gerald L. Baliles Distinguished Service Award for his service and contributions to the bar and public at large.
Neil H. MacBride ’92, general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will deliver the keynote address at a conference on U.S. use of economic measures in service of national security at the University of Virginia School of Law.
With two U.S. presidents now facing special counsel investigations and one facing legal jeopardy on a host of other matters, University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna B. Prakash explains the differing visions of presidential immunity.
Senior Director of Judicial Clerkships Ruth Payne ’02 offers insight into how UVA Law students and alumni continue to break records when it comes to securing judicial clerkships. Payne breaks down the application process, details the support and guidance provided by faculty and staff, and shares why keeping an open mind may be the key to landing one of these prestigious opportunities.
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.
Students returned to traveling abroad and practicing their trial skills in this year’s January Term, or J-Term, at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Douglas Bouton, a 2010 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, is the co-founder of Halo Top Creamery, a low-calorie treat that at one point was the most popular pint of ice cream.
LL.M. student Leah Berger has landed a clerkship with Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Collins Seitz Jr., who has historic family ties to the University of Virginia School of Law.
Retired Virginia Supreme Court Justice John Charles Thomas will speak Jan. 26 at the University of Virginia School of Law about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and how his struggles reverberate today.
On the heels of the Dobbs decision and a midterm election wave of state-level change, students in one class at the University of Virginia School of Law are examining the Virginia Constitution with a critical — and feminist — eye.
Chris Gaskill, a 2008 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has spent the past seven years honing his business acumen as executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary of Summit Materials, a publicly traded construction materials company with nearly $2.5 billion in annual revenue.
Erin Brown, a 2021 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will clerk for Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2024 term.
Professors Douglas Laycock and Bertrall Ross of the University of Virginia School of Law are being recognized by the Association of American Law Schools for their scholarship.
David Chung, a 1998 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, is the brains behind two of Washington, D.C.’s hottest nightclubs, St. Yves and Abigail. He discusses his career path with the school’s alumni magazine, UVA Lawyer.
Raised in Alaska, Andrea Canfield ’14 moved home after graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law to apply her legal skills to building wealth for the Native-owned corporations that now dominate Alaska business.
UVA Lawyer magazine catches up with four alumni five, 10, 15 and 25 after they graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law.
University of Virginia School of Law professor Rachel Harmon has been named a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award sponsored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and Dominion Energy.
In a holiday reading roundup, faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law recommend their favorite works of fiction on legal theory and lawyering.
Stories from the past year highlight 10 changemaking moments at the University of Virginia School of Law launched by community members to serve the greater good.
Directors of Admissions Katie Delsandro ’12 and Rosanne Ibanez (Col ’08) join Dean Natalie Blazer ’08 to break down the biggest takeaways at this halfway point of the 2022-23 law school admission cycle. They share what they’ve been excited about, what they’ve been noticing in admissions interviews, tips for communicating with admissions offices throughout the application process and more.
Congressional conflicts with the executive branch often set off legal battles in the courts, and cases can drag on until the point is moot. UVA Law professor Payvand Ahdout digs into why this is happening and what impact it has on the balance of power.
The separation-of-power cases hitting federal courts in recent years are having a ripple effect beyond the individual issues at stake, Payvand Ahdout says on the latest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Two University of Virginia School of Law classmates’ bond helped them survive and thrive after breast cancer.
Professor Ashley Deeks leads a conversation on national security agencies deploying tools such as artificial intelligence and how they pose challenges to those conducting oversight of U.S. national security activities. The webinar was sponsored by the UVA Law School Foundation.
In November 2020, a University of Virginia School of Law team began incubating the Roadmap Scholars Initiative. The program helps promising college juniors who are interested in law but lack the resources and networks to help them pursue that dream at the highest level.
Columbia Law School professor Robert E. Scott discusses big-picture questions on contracts as a guest speaker in Professor Mitu Gulati's Contracts class. Scott served as dean of UVA Law from 1991-2001.
Thatcher Stone, a 1982 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has died at age 67. He leaves a lasting legacy at his alma mater, where he taught aviation law and made significant philanthropic gifts.
University of Virginia School of Law professor Ashley Deeks discusses the legal and ethical concerns with San Francisco voting to allow its police department to use robots to kill suspected criminals.
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