

Over two centuries, UVA Law evolved from a regional, segregated law school into a nationally recognized leader in legal education. As this collection...
Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar...
Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...
Curtis Bradley’s new book on Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs is the definitive account of a mode of constitutional interpretation that has proven...
The per se rule against specific enforcement of personal service contracts is well established under Anglo-American contract law. At the same time...
It is hard to imagine an area of constitutional law that has changed more in Judge Wilkinson's time on the bench than the First Amendment. When Judge...
The idea of institutionalism figures prominently in today’s debates about the role of federal courts in American democracy. For example, Chief Justice...
History and precedent tell us that the just compensation requirement has been implemented by a complex network of remedies providing multiple avenues...
Before he became editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and before he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and before he...
Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...
“Dignity” is a rallying cry of social and political movements worldwide. It also appears in legal doctrine and scholarship. But the meaning of dignity...
St. George Tucker is commonly regarded as the most important commentator on American law in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the first...
This paper, prepared for the 2023 Clifford Symposium on “New Torts” at DePaul Law School, addresses the tort of offensive battery. This is an ancient...
This paper describes the response of George Washington's administration to a plea for emergency war financing from French colonists who were trying to...
When Class Competed with Race and Lost: An Origin Story of the Political Marginalization of the Poor
On March 1, 2024, the University of Richmond Law Review hosted a symposium entitled Vestiges of the Confederacy: Reckoning with the Legacy of the...
In DeTreville v. Smalls, an 1879 case from Port Royal, South Carolina, the Supreme Court declared that titles to land that had been sold in...
This short review essay on Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell's The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution...
Long lines inside Bodo’s Bagels, congestion on Emmet Street and a seemingly endless stream of runners and scooters zooming past your car in early...