UVA Law

A Look at ‘The Proof’

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Duke University law professor Lisa Kern Griffin, UVA Law lecturer and U.S. Judge Jed S. Rakoff, and Professor Gregory Mitchell discuss Professor Frede...

Should I Consider Being a Law Professor?

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors Payvand Ahdout and Richard Re discuss what being a law professor is like, different career paths, and the pros and cons of being a ...

Supreme Court Roundup, 2021 Term

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors Douglas Laycock and Julia Mahoney, and Scott Keller, partner at Lehotsky Keller and former solicitor general of Texas, discuss the ...

Public Service in the Real World

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Keynote speakers Wyatt Rolla ’13, a Legal Aid Justice Center attorney, and Harold Folley, a community organizer, discuss their career paths and thei...

Admissions Chief Natalie Blazer ’08 Welcomes Class of 2025

23 Aug 2022

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Assistant Dean for Admissions Natalie Blazer ’08 welcomes the Class of 2025 to their legal studies during orientation. (University of Virginia Schoo...

Dean Risa Goluboff Welcomes the Class of 2025

23 Aug 2022

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Dean Risa Goluboff welcomes new J.D., LL.M. and S.J.D. students to UVA Law at orientation. (University of Virginia School of Law, Aug. 22, 2022)

Orientation Address by Eric Broyles ’95

23 Aug 2022

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Eric Broyles ’95, the founder and CEO of Nanocan, welcomes the Class of 2025 to UVA Law at orientation. He advised students to “keep doing the thi...

Demystifying Dobbs

01 Jul 2022

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UVA Law professor Anne Coughlin and UVA music professor Bonnie Gordon discuss the legal principles, case history and cultural history behind the U.S. ...

The Student Experience at UVA Law

24 May 2022

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Faculty and administrators discuss student life at the Law School. The panelists are Vice Dean Michael Gilbert; Megan Durkee ’15, director of studen...

UVA Law 2022 Commencement

23 May 2022

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Kim Keenan ’87, former general counsel for the NAACP, delivers the commencement address to the Class of 2022. Dean Risa Goluboff and Student Bar Ass...

Dedication of the Portrait of Elaine R. Jones ’70

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Law School hosted a dedication ceremony for a portrait of Elaine R. Jones ’70, UVA Law’s first Black alumna and the first woman to serve as pr...

Ukraine and Challenges for U.S. National Security

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Kristen Eichensehr discusses how the conflict in Ukraine highlights broader challenges for U.S. national security and foreign relati...

‘Cheap Speech’: A Conversation With Richard L. Hasen

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Richard L. Hasen of the University of California, Irvine, discusses his new book, “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics —...

Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Washington and Lee University professor Carliss Chatman; Chuck Cory ’82, former chairman of technology banking at Morgan Stanley; UVA Law professor ...

Speaking of Injustice: A Night With Virginia’s Wrongfully Convicted

28 Apr 2022

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Freed clients Lamar Barnes, James Lamont Madison, Gilbert Merritt, Bobbie Morman Jr., Emerson Stevens and Jervon Tillman share their experiences at a ...

‘Jesus and John Wayne’ and the Evangelical Reckoning

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Calvin University history professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez delivers the 2022 Meador Lecture on her latest book, “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evang...

Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Martha Albertson Fineman of the Emory University School of Law discusses her article “Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Auton...

A Conversation With Justice Stephen Breyer

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Justice Stephen Breyer, the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, looks back on his career at the U.S. Supreme Court as he p...

An Update on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors Kristen Eichensehr, Paul B. Stephan ’77 and Pierre-Hugues Verdier, and lecturer Richard Dean ’80, a partner with Baker & McKenz...

From Protest to Law

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During the 2022 McCorkle Lecture, Professor Randall L. Kennedy of Harvard Law School discusses triumphs and defeats for racial justice during the civi...

Sovereign Debt Restructuring in the Era of COVID-19

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Mitu Gulati and Lee Buchheit, formerly of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, discuss how sovereign debt restructuring sparked by the ...

Testing Theories of American Politics

28 Mar 2022

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Professor Martin Gilens of UCLA discusses his article “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens,” co-a...

The History of Race in Higher Education

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law, discusses the history of race and the importance of equality in high...

Cybersecurity Beyond the Headlines: A Conversation With Journalist Nicole Perlroth

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Reporter and best-selling author Nicole Perlroth joins UVA Law professor Kristen Eichensehr, director of the Law School’s National Security Law Cent...

Intimate Privacy Violations and the Law: A Conversation With Crime Novelist Julia Dahl

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crime reporter and novelist Julia Dahl joins UVA Law professor Danielle K. Citron for a discussion about her latest novel “The Missing Hours,” whi...

Justice Breyer’s Legacy: Four Decades on the Bench

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Risa Goluboff leads a panel of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's former clerks — including U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria and UVA Law prof...

Inside Sines v. Kessler: A Case Holding White Supremacists Accountable

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As part of the University’s 2022 Community MLK Commemoration, a panel explores the successful civil lawsuit against organizers, promoters and partic...

The Fight for Privacy

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Danielle K. Citron, director of UVA Law's new LawTech Center, discusses topics from her forthcoming book, “The Fight for Privacy: Protecti...

The Permanent Achievement of ‘A Theory of Justice’

08 Dec 2021

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Brown University professor Charles Larmore delivers his keynote lecture, “The Permanent Achievement of ‘A Theory of Justice.’” Sponsored by UV...

Justice and Legitimacy (A Theory of Justice: 50 Years Later)

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars Andrew Lister, Queen’s University; Simon May, Florida State University; and Cynthia Stark, University of Utah, participate in the panel dis...

Education, Labor, and Justice (A Theory of Justice: 50 Years Later)

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars Gina Schouten of Harvard University and Sabine Tsuruda of Queen’s University discuss “Education, Labor and Justice,” with Christie Hart...

Race, Religion and Ideal Theory (A Theory of Justice: 50 Years Later)

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars Larry Krasnoff, College of Charleston; Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford; and Anthony Laden, University of Illinois Chicago, participate ...

Justice and Democracy (A Theory of Justice: 50 Years Later)

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine; Derrick Darby, Rutgers University; and David Reidy, University of Tennessee, participate i...

Judge Leo Strine Jr. on Contracts Law

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Former Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. recently spoke about the importance of contracts in the practice of law during UVA Law p...

War Powers After Afghanistan

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts discuss the future of war powers after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Panelists include Tess Bridgeman, co-editor-in-chief of Just Secu...

Political Fragmentation in Democracies Today

16 Nov 2021

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Professor Richard Pildes of the New York University School of Law discusses his article “Political Fragmentation in Democracies Today.” Professor ...

2022 Lile Moot Court Finals

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Third-year UVA Law students Chris Baldacci and Michael Patton face off against Abigail Burke and Bolton Smith in the final round of UVA Law’s 93rd W...

Why Formalism Is Back

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Lawrence B. Solum, an internationally recognized legal theorist, discusses why legal formalism is back during a lecture honoring his...

The Charlottesville Trial: An Overview of Sines v. Kessler

05 Nov 2021

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UVA Law professors John C. Jeffries Jr. ’73, Leslie Kendrick ’06 and Micah J. Schwartzman ’05 join UVA history professor James Loeffler to disc...

Privacy and Democracy in Technology

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Danielle K. Citron; Megan Gray of Gray Matters Law & Policy; and Rachel Levinson-Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liber...

Military Justice in America

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Senior Judge Margaret Ryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces discusses her experiences and the military justice system, with UVA Law p...

The Civil Rights Movement and the Role of Race in the 1971 Virginia Constitution

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Daniel Ortiz, Duke Law School professor H. Timothy Lovelace Jr. ’06 and moderator Judge Lisa Lorish ’08 of the Virginia Court of...

Innocence Project Client Emerson Stevens Shares His Story

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Former Innocence Project client Emerson Stevens is joined by Juliet Hatchett ’15, associate director of the Innocence Project Clinic, and Deirdre En...

The Transformation of International Tax

15 Sep 2021

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UVA Law professor Ruth Mason explains why the 2008 recession and the subsequent global effort to curb corporate tax dodging transformed international ...

Roundup of the 2020 Supreme Court Term

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors John C. Jeffries Jr. ’73 and Daniel Ortiz are joined by GianCarlo Canaparo of the Heritage Foundation to discuss key decisions in...

A Career in Public Service

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Event Description - Mary Bauer ’90, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, discusses her career path as a public interest lawyer in her keynote...

Admissions Chief Natalie Blazer ’08 Welcomes Class of 2024

17 Aug 2021

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Assistant Dean for Admissions Natalie Blazer ’08 welcomes the Class of 2024 to orientation and their legal studies. (University of Virginia School o...

Dean Risa Goluboff Welcomes Class of 2024

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Risa Goluboff delivers her orientation address to the Class of 2024 in Caplin Auditorium. (University of Virginia School of Law, Aug. 16, 2021)

White Supremacy on Trial

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Four years after the deadly attack on the Charlottesville community, a federal lawsuit led by Integrity First for America is proceeding against the wh...

Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yale Law professors Anne Alstott and Amy Kapczynski discuss the forthcoming Yale Law Journal article “Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework...

Commencement Addresses by Dean Risa Goluboff, Katharine Janes ’21 and Justice Cleo Powell ’82

23 May 2021

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Dean Risa Goluboff, former Student Bar Association President Katharine Janes ’21 and Supreme Court of Virginia Justice Cleo Powell ’82 deliver rem...

Charge to the Class of 2021, With Professor Rachel Harmon

05 May 2021

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UVA Law professor Rachel Harmon delivers the Charge to the Class of 2021, following an introduction by Dean Risa Goluboff. This annual tradition offer...

PLACE and Power: The Environment and Native American Rights

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professors Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado) and Gerald Torres (Yale School of the Environment) discuss issues at the intersection of environment...

Value Creation by Business Lawyers

23 Apr 2021

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Columbia Law School professor Ronald J. Gilson discusses his article, “Value Creation by Business Lawyers: Legal Skills and Asset Pricing,” for th...

Opportunities for Advocacy and Healing After the Chauvin Verdict

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Batten School Dean Ian Solomon, UVA Police Diversity Officer Cortney Hawkins and Batten School Social Equity Advisor Marrissa Jones co-moderate a ...

Navigating the Derek Chauvin Trial: The Law and Policing

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Anne Coughlin and Batten School professor Brian N. Williams co-moderate a panel discussion of legal experts discussing a range of po...

An Original Document for Every Song in ‘Hamilton’

15 Apr 2021

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Judge Charles Eskridge III of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas walks through the original documents that inspired the songs ...

Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Sentencing

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A panel explores the increasingly prevalent use of artificial intelligence risk assessment tools in criminal sentencing, and whether the results of su...

Understanding the Derek Chauvin Trial

12 Apr 2021

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Professor Anne Coughlin leads a discussion of the legal landscape surrounding Derek Chauvin’s ongoing trial for the death of George Floyd. Coughlin ...

The Future of Live Animal Markets

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Event Description - Ann Linder, Wildlife and Live Animal Markets Fellow with the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program, presents her research...

Alumni Discuss Experiences at UVA Law

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Learn about experiences alumni had as students at UVA Law and with the alumni network. Panelists include Daniel Bress ’05, a judge on the 9th U.S. C...

Understanding the ‘Code of Capital’

29 Mar 2021

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Columbia Law School professor Katharina Pistor discusses a chapter from her book “The Code of Capital,” for the Oxford-Virginia Legal Dialogs work...

COVID-19 and the Future of Health Care

26 Mar 2021

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UVA Law alumni in leading health-related industries discuss the impact of COVID-19 and the unique challenges presented by the pandemic. The panelists ...

UVA Law and the Federal Courts

11 Mar 2021

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Professor Micah Schwartzman ’05 interviews fellow Law School alums Judge Daniel A. Bress ’05 and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III ’72 about their c...

Terrica Ganzy ’02 on ‘Shaping Justice’

01 Mar 2021

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UVA Law alumna Terrica Ganzy ’02 discusses her path to a public service career as an advocate for people on death row, and lessons learned along the...

Race and the Law of Business and Finance

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Berkeley Law School professor Abbye Atkinson and UVA Law professor Andrew Hayashi present research on how the law interacts with issues of race in bus...

Insights on Teaching Race in Business Law

24 Feb 2021

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Faculty share insights on discussing and teaching issues relating to race in business law courses, following an introduction by UVA Law School Dean Ri...

The Constitution of Virginia at 50: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

05 Feb 2021

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UVA Law student Juliet Clark ’21, William & Mary law professor Rebecca Green and UVA Law professor Saikrishna Prakash analyze the history and future...

Today’s Intersectional Struggle for Equality

03 Feb 2021

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Law scholars discuss community activism and pursuing social justice in today’s intersectional movements for equality during the MLK Day symposium “...

Elaine Jones ’70 Reflects on Intersectionality and Equality

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Jones ’70, the Law School’s first Black alumna and the first woman to serve as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense an...

The Intersectional Struggle for Equality: Lessons From the Past

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars and UVA Law students discuss the history of race and sex/LGBT equality movements during the symposium “From the Equal Rights Amendment to B...

Can the President Pardon Himself?

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As President Donald Trump prepares to leave office, can he give himself a presidential pardon? An expert panel focuses on the constitutional basis of ...

PLACE and Power: How Rural Places Shape the Environment

23 Dec 2020

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Legal historian Emily Prifogle of the University of Michigan Law School and journalist/author Earl Swift discuss the importance of rural places in sha...

Exploring ‘Reviving Rationality’

02 Dec 2020

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UVA Law professor Michael Livermore and co-author and New York University law professor Richard Revesz discuss their new book “Reviving Rationality:...

PLACE and Power: Pathways to Racial and Economic Equity

19 Nov 2020

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David Troutt of Rutgers Law School and Thad Williamson of the University of Richmond discuss pathways to racial and economic equity, with a focus on t...

PLACE and Power: Improving Air Quality

18 Nov 2020

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California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. Nichols and UCLA School of Law professor Ann E. Carlson, one of the country’s leading scholars of clima...

Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy Regarding a Federal Right to Education

16 Nov 2020

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Two panels of scholars discuss issues raised by UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson’s edited book, “A Federal Right to Education: Fundamen...

Election 2020: What’s Next for Law and Democracy?

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors Naomi Cahn, Michael Gilbert and Saikrishna Prakash discuss key legal issues emerging out of the presidential election in a panel mo...

Fireside Chat With Professor Lillian BeVier and Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick

03 Nov 2020

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UVA Law Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick ’06 interviews Professor Emerita Lillian R. BeVier, the first tenured female faculty member at UVA Law, about her ...

A Conversation With Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan ’97 on Race, Equity and Policymaking

21 Oct 2020

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Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan ’97 discusses the challenges of making policies to address racial inequities. (University of Virginia School of Law...

The Steps To Becoming a Law Professor

21 Oct 2020

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UVA Law professors Cathy Hwang and Richard Schragger discuss the academic career path and how to become a law professor. (University of Virginia Schoo...

Exploring the National Security Threats of TikTok

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professor Ashley Deeks; Charles Flint, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn; and Sarah M. Harris of the law firm Williams & Connolly d...

Mandatory Vaccinations: Law, Ethics and Religious Liberties

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors Margaret Foster Riley, Lois Shepherd and Micah Schwartzman ’05 discuss mandatory vaccination policies at a Health Law Association...

A Campaign Finance Reformer Talks LGBTQ+ Leadership in Politics

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Campaign Legal Center founder and President Trevor Potter ’82 delivered the keynote address at the 2020 Ele(Q)t Project for LGBTQ+ Leadership sympos...

Why Antitrust Agencies Are Under Stress in the Digital Age

11 Mar 2020

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Donald Baker, co-founder of the law firm Baker & Miller and former head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, delivered the keynot...

Is Half of Oklahoma About To Go Back to Native American Tribes?

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. Supreme Court case McGirt v. Oklahoma could decide whether 3 million acres in eastern Oklahoma still comprise the Creek Nation’s reservatio...

Inside the Classroom: Contracts With Professor George Geis

02 Mar 2020

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UVA Law professor George Geis discusses issues surrounding offers and acceptance in contract law with his 1L Contracts class. Taking place early in st...

Human Rights and Tibet: Leading a Government-in-Exile

26 Feb 2020

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Lobsang Sangay, regent of the Central Tibetan Administration, delivers the Human Rights Program spring lecture. Sangay discusses his experiences leadi...

Originalist Perspectives on Stare Decisis

17 Feb 2020

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A panel of legal scholars discussed the relationship between originalist legal philosophy and stare decisis, the legal principle of using precedent to...

Dismantling Mass Incarceration Through Restorative Justice

13 Feb 2020

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A panel of advocates and scholars discuss what restorative justice looks like and how it could potentially provide alternatives to the current crimina...

International Law in the Machine Learning Age

07 Feb 2020

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UVA Law professor Ashley Deeks discusses how contemporary advancements in machine learning could impact developments in international law. This presen...

Civil Rights Violations in the Social Determinants of Health

05 Feb 2020

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A panel of activists and scholars discuss how neighborhood zoning policies, uneven environmental protection rules and “proactive” police enforceme...

The Civil Rights of Health

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Angela P. Harris, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law, delivered the opening keynote address at a con...

‘Free Speech and Youths,’ With Mary Beth Tinker

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Beth Tinker, a plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, discussed the importance of free speech for youths to combat in...

Evolution of Students’ Free Speech Rights

24 Jan 2020

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Professor Frederick Schauer discusses the state of student free speech rights 50 years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Tinker v. Des...

Students’ Free Speech Rights 50 Years After Tinker

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law student Manal Cheema ’20, University of North Carolina School of Law professor Mary-Rose Papandrea, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of...

How to Handle Unpopular Student Speech

24 Jan 2020

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University of Miami School of Law professor Mary Anne Franks, Susan Kruth of FIRE, UVA Law student Anna Cecile Pepper ’21 and LaTarndra Strong of th...

UVA Innocence Project Client Shares His Story

23 Dec 2019

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Darnell Phillips, a client of the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, spoke at the Law School to show his gratitude ...

So You Want To Be a Law Professor?

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

UVA Law professors and members of the Academic Placement Committee Kimberly J. Robinson and Richard C. Schragger discuss careers in teaching law and a...

Examining Climate Change in the Business Context

20 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Avi Garbow ’92, environmental advocate at Patagonia and former general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency, and UVA Law professor Jon Can...