Upcoming Events

You are invited to join Birmingham-area UVA Law alumni and regional manager, Matt Lembke '91, for a virtual reception with remarks by Dean Risa L. Goluboff. To register, please contact alumnievents@law.virginia.edu.

Hear federal and state prosecutors talk about their work prosecuting crimes, how they got started in their field and career paths. Q&A to follow. Zoom details.

This summer, the Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that a state cannot discriminate against religious schools in state-based scholarship programs. Join professors Micah Schwartzman, Stephanie Barclay and Nathan Chapman as they discuss the successes and failures of the Court's decision and offer predictions for future developments on the issue of public funding for private schools. Register for Zoom.

From lockdown orders to mask mandates to mandatory vaccinations, COVID-19 may test many of the traditional assumptions of constitutional jurisprudence. Join Common Law Grounds for an online dinner roundtable discussion. Food will be provided. Zoom details.

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California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. Nichols and UCLA law professor Ann E. Carlson will discuss the productive but fraught 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 event is 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. Carlson, one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy, is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, and the inaugural faculty director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. She is also on the faculty of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Nichols joined the California Air Resources Board in 2007. She has also served as California’s secretary for Natural Resources (1999-2003); a senior staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council; assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation; and head of the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. Register for Zoom

The Health Law Association will host Professor Lois Shepherd, Professor Mimi Riley and Professor Micah Schwartzman in a discussion of mandatory vaccination policies. Zoom details.

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Join the National Security Law Forum and Professor David Koplow, one of the country's foremost experts on space law, for a discussion of the national security and international law problems the field is confronting. Zoom details.

Where can someone who has experienced violence turn when they no longer trust the criminal legal system to bring them justice? In recent decades, transformative justice has emerged as a holistic practice outside formal systems that focuses on bringing healing to survivors of violence through community-based accountability processes. What positive roles can lawyers play from within systems that often perpetuate oppression? The Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law and NLG at UVA will host a panel discussion on these topics featuring Janae Bonsu, Ph.D. candidate at UIC and former national public policy chair for Black Youth Project 100, and Claudia Peña, lecturer in law at UCLA and co-founder of Repair. Zoom details.