Upcoming Events

Adjunct professor Jim Donovan, vice chairman of global client coverage at Goldman Sachs, will discuss Secrets to Optimal Client Service. Donovan teaches courses on corporate strategy and leadership at UVA Law, and his previous talks at the Law School that have been taped have attracted nearly 3 million views on the school's YouTube channel. At Goldman Sachs, he is responsible for some of the firm's most significant clients. Lunch will be served.

In the fourth “Real Deal” installment, a mix of state and federal prosecutors will discuss their work, career paths and what it is like to represent the government and the interests of victims in the criminal justice system. Lunch provided with RSVP through Symplicity by Sept. 26.

Colgate University professor Dan Bouk discusses his new book, “Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them.”

Cory Liu, a partner at the Ashcroft Law Firm, will give a lecture on the two Students for Fair Admissions affirmative action cases that will be argued before the Supreme Court this fall.

Common Law Grounds will ask, what do you think the role of gun control should be in the United States? Where is the boundary between the Second Amendment and public safety? Should an additional amendment dealing with firearm rights be passed?

A Wrongful Conviction Day panel will explore barriers to reentry for exonerated individuals, as well as recent changes to the compensation scheme for exonerated people in Virginia. Panelists will include the Innocence Project Clinic associate director Juliet Hatchett ’15, Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic director Kelly Orians and some of the Innocence Project’s exonerated clients. Food will be provided.

Join the Virginia Environmental Law Forum to hear about shifts in the state of environmental law in the courts and Congress. Professors Cale Jaffe ’01 and Michael Livermore will offer commentary on recent and upcoming Supreme Court cases, and Professor Alison Gocke will provide insights into the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act on energy policy and transitions in the U.S.

An expert panel will discuss China’s role in the vast technology space and how does it affect U.S.-China relations. This event will feature Miller Center professor Evan Feigenbaum, UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas and UVA Law professor Thomas Nachbar. Together, they will explore the relationship among social media, technology and data exploitation, and analyze the roles played by both China and the United States.

University of California, Berkeley professor Jennifer Skeem will deliver the P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry. Skeem is the Mack Distinguished Professor at the School of Social Welfare and a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy.

The lecture is sponsored by the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, and the University’s schools of Law and Medicine. The institute is directed by UVA Law professor Richard Bonnie, who also holds appointments in Medicine and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

This is the first information session this semester for the National Lawyers Guild's annual trip to Palestine.

Join the Virginia Employment and Labor Law Association for the first general body meeting of the year and learn how to get more involved with curricular, pro bono and job opportunities in the field of labor and employment. All students welcome. Food will be provided.

CELS 2022 will bring together scholars from law, economics, political science, psychology, policy analysis and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions. Participants will present papers that engage empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues spanning all areas of empirical legal studies. The papers, selected through a peer review process, are presented in panels, with assigned commenters for each paper and opportunities for audience discussion.

Peter Strzok is former deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division and led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Previously, he had been the chief of the division’s counterespionage section and led the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server.

Aliza Shatzman of the Judicial Accountability Project will introduce issues surrounding judicial misconduct, discuss solutions and answer questions. All UVA Law students are welcome. Food will be provided. 

Philosophy professor and author Cornel West will join a conversation with Mark C. Jefferson, assistant dean for diversity, equity and belonging at the Law School. Dean Risa Goluboff will introduce the event. West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary. He is professor emeritus at Princeton University and a former professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University. He has written 20 books and has edited 13, and is a recipient of the American Book Award. West was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. Before joining UVA Law as its chief diversity officer, Jefferson was assistant dean of community engagement and equity at Harvard Law School. He has also served as assistant director of admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, as a middle school teacher and as a chaplain. Box lunches will be provided first-come, first-served at 12:45 p.m.

Clinical Programs will host a panel discussion with Louis Nelson, UVA vice provost for academic outreach; Rufus Elliott of the Monacan Nation and Community Fellow at the Equity Center; and possibly others and moderated by Professor Sarah Shalf. This series is designed for clinic students working in the community, but is open to all students who want to better understand the context of their community engagement. Snacks will be available.

U.S. Rep. Bob Good will discuss his experiences in Congress and how law students can contribute to the nation’s political process. Food will be provided.

Timothy Endicott, the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, will discuss his book “The Value of Vagueness, in Vagueness in Normative Terms” with commentator Judith Freedman, professor emeritus of Oxford. A copy of the chapter will be sent to registrants prior to the event.

In an environment of increasing academic specialization, Oxford-Virginia Legal Dialogs seeks to build bridges across academic disciplines by introducing a new kind of workshop. For each session, a tax scholar will select a non-tax, but law-related, work that is prominent in its own field and explain how the work is relevant to the study of taxation. The author of the work will then respond before questions and discussion with workshop attendees.