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A University of Virginia School of Law student using American Sign Language and her classmate successfully argued on behalf of a client before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
“Common Law,” a podcast sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law and hosted by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick ’06, will return for its third season Jan. 26 with a focus on “Law and Equity.”
The legacy of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is reviewed in a new University of Virginia School of Law short course offered in coordination with the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.
As President Donald Trump prepares to leave office, can he give himself a presidential pardon? An expert panel focuses on the constitutional basis of the pardon power, its history and limits, the relationship between pardoning and impeachment, and the legal and political implications of an attempt by the president to self-pardon. The panelists are UVA Law professor John C. Harrison; Michigan State University law professor Brian Kalt; Stanford University professor Bernadette Meyler; and UVA Law professor Micah Schwartzman, director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.
A symposium hosted by the University of Virginia School of Law will explore intersectional struggles, as part of UVA’s 2021 Community MLK Celebration.
A client of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law has inspired a $100,000 donation from two leaders of Sheehy Auto Stores that will help others fighting for their freedom.
Rennard Strickland, a pioneer in the movement for Native rights and a legal historian who received two law degrees from the University of Virginia School of Law, died Jan. 5 at the age of 80.
The Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law will host an online symposium Jan. 22 examining religious liberty, family law and discrimination in the U.S. Supreme Court case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.
Professor Ashley Deeks is joining the Joe Biden administration as associate counsel and deputy legal advisor to the National Security Council in the Office of the White House Counsel.
Professor Micah Schwartzman ’05 answers questions about the future of democracy and the attack on the U.S. Capitol. He directs the University of Virginia School of Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.
Professor Rachel Harmon, director of the Center for Criminal Justice at the University of Virginia School of Law, has some joint recommendations on federal policing reform for the new administration.
University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff released a message to students about Wednesday’s events in Washington, D.C.
We ask University of Virginia School of Law alumni how life is going five, 10, 15 and 25 years after law school.
Professor Cale Jaffe of the University of Virginia School of Law has been appointed to the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission.
Legal historian Emily Prifogle of the University of Michigan Law School and journalist and author Earl Swift discuss the importance of rural places in shaping the laws, customs and attitudes of the people who live in them, as well as their role in the cultural and political future of the nation.
The University of Virginia School of Law and members of the Law School community have recently been singled out for excellence.
As a difficult year draws to an end, professors at the University of Virginia School of Law recommend their favorite guilty pleasures to hunker down with over winter break.
The University of Virginia has bestowed its highest honor for an individual employee, the Leonard Sandridge Outstanding Contributor Award, to the Law School’s chief communications officer, Mary Wood.
University of Virginia School of Law students Elizabeth Fritz ’22 and Avery Rasmussen ’21 were recently recognized for having the highest GPA after two and four semesters, respectively.
The University of Virginia School of Law celebrated another year of milestones, even as the Law School community rose to meet the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out some of the top stories of 2020.
Danielle Citron, a law professor specializing in digital privacy, will join the University of Virginia School of Law.
C. Alex Retzloff ’21, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses what he learned co-authoring an article with a professor on home rule and Virginia’s Constitution.
Professor David Luban, a legal ethicist who has studied the authorization of military torture, will visit the University of Virginia School of Law this spring.
The University of Virginia School of Law remains No. 1 in Best Professors, Best Quality of Life and Best Classroom Experience, according to The Princeton Review’s annual law school rankings, which were released Tuesday.
The International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law contributed to a report that could help protect gay men, and others suspected of being LGBTQ, from being persecuted in Nigeria.
The University of Virginia has appointed Risa Goluboff to a second term as dean of the University of Virginia School of Law.
The new center at the University of Virginia School of Law will promote faculty scholarship and the school’s historic strengths in tax law.
The federal government should revive the use of cost-benefit analysis when crafting regulations affecting Americans, says Professor Michael Livermore of the University of Virginia School of Law in a new co-authored book.
UVA Law professor Michael Livermore and co-author and New York University law professor Richard Revesz discuss their new book “Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health,” along with panelists Jonathan Adler, Amy Sinden and Jonathan Z. Cannon. The authors argue that the Donald Trump administration has destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise and analysis. The panel was sponsored by PLACE, UVA Law’s Program in Law, Communities and the Environment.
The Public Interest Law Association at the University of Virginia School of Law moved its annual auction online and raised $20,000 for public service internships.
With many courses moving online this fall due to COVID-19, professors at the University of Virginia School of Law have learned a lot about teaching on Zoom in the past several months.
Dean Risa Goluboff shares a message with the UVA Law community as the school’s fall 2020 semester concludes.
Jason Dugas ’01, assistant dean for academic services at the University of Virginia School of Law, offers tips for taking exams in a remote or distanced environment.
David Troutt of Rutgers Law School and Thad Williamson of the University of Richmond discuss pathways to racial and economic equity, with a focus on the effects of local and regional housing, employment and anti-poverty policies. UVA Law professor Richard Schragger moderated the event, hosted by PLACE: The Program in Law, Communities and the Environment. The event was the third in the program’s “PLACE and Power” series of virtual conversations exploring connections between human place-based relationships and the law and politics of environmental governance.
California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. Nichols and UCLA School of Law professor Ann E. Carlson, one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy, discuss the relationship between cities, states and national environmental decisions-makers, with a focus on the important strides made to improve air quality in California over the past several decades. The talk was the second in the “PLACE and Power” series of virtual conversations exploring connections between human place-based relationships and the law and politics of environmental governance.
Professor Thomas Frampton of the University of Virginia School of Law teamed with a former juror for an amicus brief currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two panels of scholars discuss issues raised by UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson’s edited book, “A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy.” Led by the moderators, UVA President James E. Ryan ’92 and Harvard Law’s Martha Minow, the panels feature Kristine L. Bowman, Peggy Cooper Davis, Jason P. Nance, Eloise Pasachoff, Derek W. Black, Carmel Martin, Rachel F. Moran, Robinson and Joshua Weishart.
Alumni of the University of Virginia School of Law with experience in the criminal justice system discuss what’s working and what needs to change.
On paper and in practice, University of Virginia School of Law faculty have been actively working to reform the criminal justice system.
If the Supreme Court were to overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act, it would essentially be interfering with the authority of Congress, Professor Michael Doran of the University of Virginia School of Law argues in a new paper.
Professor A. E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law reflects on progress made 50 years after he helped draft the state constitution and looks ahead.
A new center that applies economics to the study of law and politics has been established at the University of Virginia School of Law. The Center for Public Law and Political Economy is led by Professor Michael D. Gilbert.
Students with the University of Virginia School of Law’s Pro Bono Program helped a client save $10,000 in court over a defaulted loan.
Recounts may not make much of a difference in the presidential election, but other factors might, University of Virginia School of Law professors said Thursday.
Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel of Our Children’s Trust, will deliver the annual Lillian K. Stone Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Policy on Nov. 16 at an event co-sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law.
Here are the best tips and stories about exams we’ve produced on the University of Virginia School of Law website over the years.
Common Law Grounds, a student organization at the University of Virginia School of Law, has proved over the past four years that students have a desire for respectful discussion of issues that divide Americans.
UVA Law Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick ’06 interviews Professor Emerita Lillian R. BeVier, the first tenured female faculty member at UVA Law, about her trailblazing career. This event was co-hosted by the school’s Federalist Society chapter and Virginia Law Women.
Ever wondered what the University of Virginia School of Law would look like as a pumpkin?
Savannah Logan ’22, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses how she learned more about the law working with a legal aid organization and Major League Baseball.
As fall reaches peak color, the University of Virginia School of Law is making new backgrounds for Zoom available, including some for the winter season.
A symposium sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law on Nov. 9 will explore whether the United States should recognize a federal right to education and what that would look like.
Clinics that provide real-world experience to students at the University of Virginia School of Law are rising to the challenges posed by the pandemic.
Reviewing class notes and talking through exams were keys to success for Mariette Peltier, who earned the highest GPA in the Class of 2020 at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Natalie Blazer, a 2008 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has joined the Law School as assistant dean for admissions.
Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan ’97 discusses the challenges of making policies to address racial inequities.
UVA Law professors Cathy Hwang and Richard Schragger discuss the academic career path and how to become a law professor.
Alan S. Boyd, a 1948 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and the first U.S. secretary of transportation, died Sunday at age 98.
Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson of the University of Virginia School of Law was recently elected a member of the American Law Institute, bringing the number of UVA Law faculty affiliated with ALI to 25.
Women are profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic at work and at home, but the health crisis also presents an opportunity for lawmakers to improve women’s lives in the long term, University of Virginia School of Law professor Naomi Cahn finds in new research.
University of Virginia School of Law students are serving in a range of externships this fall and earning academic credit while working in the public sector under the supervision of a lawyer.
For 50 years as of this week, the Black Law Students Association has been a force in recruiting Black students and faculty, and creating a sense of belonging for diverse community members at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Assistant Dean for Public Service Annie Kim ’99 and UVA Law students Eliza Schultz ’21, Chris Yarrell ’22 and Nooreen Reza ’21 discuss features of the Program in Law and Public Service. This video was filmed under socially distanced conditions in August 2020.
As the Black Law Students Association celebrates 50 years at the University of Virginia School of Law, two founding members describe how it all began and the group’s immediate impact.
Whether mail-in voting is a deliverance or a disaster will depend on several factors, says Professor Michael Gilbert of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Leah Gould has joined the University of Virginia School of Law as director of public service.
Professor Paul Stephan of the University of Virginia School of Law has released a new book that puts into scholarly context the massive foreign relations law project he recently helped lead.
UVA Law professor Ashley Deeks; Charles Flint, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn; and Sarah M. Harris of the law firm Williams & Connolly discuss whether Chinese-owned tech companies like TikTok pose a threat to national security and how the government should respond. The event was sponsored by the Federalist Society chapter at UVA Law.
UVA Law professors Margaret Foster Riley, Lois Shepherd and Micah Schwartzman ’05 discuss mandatory vaccination policies at a Health Law Association event.
Meet some of the members of the Class of 2023 who received full-tuition scholarships at the University of Virginia School of Law.
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.
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