Upcoming Events

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.

APALSA and WOC invite all to celebrate the last day of classes. Food will be provided.

Network with employers at the annual career reception aimed at diverse law students.

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Screening of the forthcoming movie, “The Report," which explores the Senate’s investigation of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on U.S. Government detainees post 9/11. Panel discussion on the the use of such techniques to follow.

Melissa Schwartzberg will present in conjunction with the Political Theory Colloquium.

UVA Law families and students are invited to attend the annual Halloween Carnival, hosted by the First Year Council. Costumes encouraged, candy and treats provided.

David Matas, a renowned human rights lawyer, will speak about how his team in 2018-19 used an independent people’s tribunal to significantly contribute to the existing evidence on forced organ harvesting in China. Joshua Li will speak about how organ harvesting particularly affects minority and subordinated groups in China, including Falun Dafa practitioners. Lunch will be provided.

Immediately following his victory in India’s general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the termination of Article 370 of the Constitution, asserting India’s power in the disputed Kashmir region. Since then Kashmir has been under lockdown. Human Rights Advocate Harsh Mander will deliver a candid conversation with Professor Neeti Nair to learn about the difficulties India’s millions of religious and ethnic minorities, the largest being Indian Muslims, face under Modi’s rule. Dinner will be provided.

The Human Rights Program will welcome Sanho Tree, the director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Teresa García Castro, an associate with the Drug Policy Program at WOLA. Tree and Castro will speak to their expertise on the history of the war on drugs and the impact it has today on counternarcotics efforts and women and incarceration, respectively. Lunch will be provided.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to socialize over Bodo's Bagels, coffee and snacks. All are welcome. 

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

This event is part of the Fall 1L Career Development Curriculum. Get the facts about UVA Law’s loan assistance program, the federal government’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and how new grads in public service make it all work. Financial Aid’s Helen Dugger and two recent public service alumni will present information and answer students’ questions.

All members of the Class of 2020 are invited to convene in Scott Commons for a game night. Students may bring their favorite board game. Food will be provided.

1L students are invited to attend a panel discussion focusing on how to use 1L summer work experiences to build a meaningful career in Virginia. Lunch will be served.

Food will be provided.

Bank of America Global General Counsel David Leitch ’85 will speak about his experience in law and business throughout his career, in a Q&A moderated by Professor George Geis. Food 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.

Students are invited to join Virginia Law Women for their annual Women in Public Service event. The event consists of two panels at 5:15 p.m. followed by a keynote adress at 6:15 p.m. in the Purcell Reading Room.

• Starting Strong: Beginning Your Career in Public Service, WB102. Panelists: Claire Blumenson, executive director and co-founder of School Justice Project; Sarah Buckley, trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources division, DOJ; Vivian Kim, assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia; and Cassie Powell, staff attorney at Legal Aid Justice Center.
• Private Pathways to Public Service, WB101. Panelists: Sarah Hall, staff attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Lisa Lorish, assistant federal public defender, Western District of Virginia; Jennifer Nelson, staff attorney, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; and Kristi O'Malley, assistant U.S. attorney, District of Maryland.

The keynote address will be delivered by Sarah Baker ‘04. Baker is the president and executive director of We The Action, a digital platform used by thousands of lawyers nationwide to volunteer with leading nonprofit organizations. Baker previously served as associate counsel and special assistant to President Obama in the Office of the White House Counsel. Reception to follow keynote address.
 

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For 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 finals, the two remaining pairs of students, Megan Mers and Henry Dickman, and Abbey Thornhill and Katherine Whisenhunt, will face off before a panel of three federal appellate judges.