Upcoming Events

Kevin Theriot, senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life with Alliance Defending Freedom, will speak on ethical concerns surrounding being pro-life in the legal profession as well as recent abortion cases. Food will be provided.

ACS wil host multiple judges to discuss the importance that diversity plays in making a judiciary that is more just, equitable and fair. Judges TBD.

How vital is diversity of life experiences to the legal academy? As part of Black History Month, BLSA invites the law school community to hear from professors Alex Johnson, Kimberly Robinson and Timothy Lovelace, who will talk about the paths they took to reach the legal academy and how their experience as black scholars helped impact their scholarship. Lunch will be provided.

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Jennifer Eberhardt, a social psychologist at Stanford University, will discuss her 2019 book “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.” She is a 2014 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. She is co-founder and co-director of SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions), a Stanford Center that brings together researchers and practitioners to address significant social problems. Eberhardt’s talk is part of the University’s 2020 Community MLK Celebration.

During the event, Dean Risa Goluboff will present the 2020 Gregory H. Swanson Award. Named after UVA and UVA Law’s first black student, the award recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to justice within the community.

The Ele(Q)t Project for LGBTQ Leadership is organized by the students of the Lambda Law Alliance at the University of Virginia School of Law. The non-partisan symposium-style event is an afternoon-long series of candidate forums, panel speakers, discussions and workshops focused on motivating and training young LGBTQ leaders to run for political office. The project's goal is to include speakers who currently hold elected office and those who have significant political, campaigning or election law experience. The keynote address by Trevor Potter ’82 will take place at 6:30 p.m. Lunch and dinner will be provided

The Latin American Law Association will host panel discussions on arbitration and its importance in the legal world today. Additional details TBD. Food will be provided.

Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet, memoirist and teacher, will deliver the keynote address at 5:15 p.m. during the fourth annual Shaping Justice conference. The conference gathers students, attorneys and advocates dedicated to transforming the law in order to advance justice. Other events include panels and networking opportunities, as well as an awards lunch honoring UVA Law alumni who have dedicated their careers to shaping justice.

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Advocacy for Transgender Youths’ Rights
The Intersections of Immigrant Rights and Environmental Justice

12:30-2 p.m.
Shaping Justice Awards Ceremony and Lunch

2:15-3:30 p.m.
Technology and the Criminalization of Sex Work
Disability Rights 30 Years After the Passage of the ADA

3:45-5 p.m. | PANELS
Fighting for Reproductive Justice in a Time of Crisis
Dismantling Mass Incarceration Through Restorative Justice

5:15-6:15 p.m.
Keynote Address by Reginald Dwayne Betts

6:15-7:30 p.m.
Networking Reception and Book Signing With Reginald Dwayne Betts

VJIL will host their 2020 symposium, Antitrust and the Global Economy, co-sponsored by the J.B. Moore Society of International Law. Panelists from a variety of backgrounds will discuss how antitrust functions in the  age of sprawling, multinational corporations. This event will give attendees the opportunity to learn, network and engage. Breakfast, coffee and lunch will be served.

VLW's annual Women in Big Law event consists of panels discussions with women at various law firms throughout the country, focusing on partnership, mentoring and work/life balance. A networking reception for attorneys and 1L students will follow the panels.

Interested in exploring firm practice out West? Want to meet attorneys from the West Coast? Please join WCW to hear representatives from firms’ West Coast offices discuss firm practice and offer tips on breaking into Western markets.

For over 90 years, the William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition has pitted UVA Law's best and brightest oral advocates against one another in a spirited intramural competition. In the semifinals, the four remaining pairs of students will face off. Round one begins at 3:30 p.m., followed by round two at 5 p.m.