“UVA Law School transforms the lives of its students and alumni. …
“ …Your three years in Charlottesville will bring you incredible opportunities in and out of the classroom, as well as lifelong friendships with your classmates, faculty and administrators. …
“ … After graduation, the sky is the limit as you launch into careers that can take you anywhere—to a Supreme Court clerkship or the halls of Congress, to law firms or nonprofits or C-suites around the world.”
—Dean Leslie Kendrick
Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. Consistently ranked among the top law schools, UVA is a world-renowned training ground for distinguished lawyers and public servants, instilling in them a commitment to leadership, integrity and community service.
❱ Home to more than 25,000 students and 18,000 faculty and staff members, UVA has been ranked among the nation’s top public universities since 1984.
❱ UVA is the only university in the United States to be designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site
❱ The University’s diverse intellectual life is open to law students: Up to 12 credits from other departments may be counted toward the J.D. degree.
❱ The University’s first law classes were taught in Pavilion III on the Lawn. The school moved to its current North Grounds location in 1973.
Over its 200year history, the Law School and society have evolved as generations of law students have become lawyers and then leaders.
Famous and familiar faces have taught in our classrooms, spoken from our podiums and graduated from our lawn.
A school that once served only a privileged few now has a diverse student body made up of aspiring leaders from across the United States and around the world.
Virginia has produced leaders in the public sphere for generations. A total of 177 alumni have served in the U.S. Congress to date—145 in the House and 48 in the Senate, with 16 serving in both.
❱ Deborah Platt Majoras ’89 retired as chief legal officer of Procter & Gamble and previously spent four years as chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
❱ Eric Broyles ’95, the founder and CEO of Nanocan, previously was a corporate lawyer at Skadden Arps and AOL.
VIRGINIA graduates have become leaders in
❱ David Baldacci ’86 is an internationally best-selling author.
❱ Catherine Keating’87 is global head of BNY Wealth and CEO of BNY Mellon.
❱ Janet Napolitano ’83 served as Arizona governor, secretary of Homeland Security and president of the University of California, and is now a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
❱ Douglas Bouton ’10 is founder and CEO of Gatsby Chocolate and CEO of Halo Top International.
❱ Catharina Min ’90 is a partner at Covington & Burling in Palo Alto, California.
❱ Armando Tabernilla’84 is general counsel, vice president and secretary for Florida Crystals, one of the largest sugar producers and refiners in the world.
Law school is about more than going to classes, reading cases and writing briefs. It involves collaborative problem-solving, a lively exchange of ideas and a commitment to working as part of a team—the same skills required in the legal profession.
At VIRGINIA, law students share their experiences in a cooperative spirit, both in and out of the classroom, and build networks that last well beyond their three years here.
Law school at UVA is a partnership in which students are active participants in learning, in collaboration with other students, faculty, a network of alumni and the greater community. Students learn that a UVA lawyer has an obligation to use the power of law for the public good, and to practice law with care, empathy and rigor. That practice starts at UVA.
❱ Casey Schmidt ’24
HOMETOWN: Seattle
EDUCATION: University of Virginia, political philosophy, policy and law
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Clerkships on the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in Honolulu
“I have learned as much from the time spent in the classroom as from interactions with classmates and professors outside of it. I leave UVA with some incredible friends and mentors who I’m confident will be influential throughout my career.
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❱ 48 UVA Law graduates chosen to clerk at the Supreme Court, 2004-2024 terms
❱ 911 J.D. students, fall 2023
❱ Students in the Class of 2026 attended 144 undergraduate institutions and came from 40 states and the District of Columbia.
The J.D. candidates also include citizens of Canada, China and South Korea
❱ 6.4-to-1 studentfaculty ratio, fall 2023
❱ 20,000+ alumni in all 50 states and in more than 60 foreign countries
❱ 24 clinics
❱ 70 student organizations, 10 academic journals
❱ 14 combinationdegree programs
❱ 12,623 pro bono hours logged by students in 2023-24
❱ 12 study-abroad programs
Over the course of a year, students in the Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic helped secure the release of five people imprisoned in Louisiana, assisted clients who were reentering society, and created a curriculum to teach incarcerated people basic financial and entrepreneurial skills to prepare for life after prison.
Blair Schaefer ’23, who worked on sentence reductions for clients in the Washington, D.C., area, said the clinic “has been one of the most meaningful parts of my law school experience, and I’ve truly learned so much in the process.”
“Incarceration is traumatic and stigmatizing, and the clinic has provided an incredible opportunity to help clients rejoin their communities and loved ones,” she said.
The leaders of the historic special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election teach a short course to a select group of third-year students, walking them through the decision points of their investigation.
The attorneys, including former FBI Director Robert Mueller ’73 as a guest lecturer, invite students to judge their work and what
they might have done better.
“They were being pretty vulnerable in going through their thought process,” said Robert Mathai ’22, who took the first class.
The instructors for The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel are Aaron Zebley ’96, Jim Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, with Mueller attending sessions and addressing the class at times.
Zebley, a former FBI agent and federal prosecutor, served as deputy special counsel to the investigation. Quarles, with his previous experience as a prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, was senior counsel to Mueller. And Goldstein, a former federal prosecutor focused on public corruption cases, was senior assistant special counsel.
Students in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic recently watched their professor argue before the high court, just weeks after helping him prepare.
Professor Daniel Ortiz argued Jones v. Hendrix in 2023, his seventh appearance before the court. The question before the justices was whether habeas relief is available to federal inmates who could not otherwise file challenges to their convictions when judicial decisions later decriminalized the actions for which they were convicted.
In preparation, Ortiz practiced in a number of moot arguments against students in the class who played the parts of the justices, asking tough questions. Jones is the clinic’s 18th case before the court since the course’s inception in 2006.
Members of the Black Law Students Association flew 20 hours to visit Cape Town, South Africa, during spring break to conduct and present legal research on international hate speech law to attorneys with the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.
The country is still working to erase the harm of apartheid, a racial segregation system established by white colonists that lasted roughly 40 years. BLSA members spent hundreds of volunteer hours helping create a toolbox of relevant international precedent for attorneys working on cases that may be novel for South Africa.
“Since [South Africa’s] constitution was revamped after apartheid, there’s not a whole lot of case law,” BLSA President Keegan Hudson ’24 said. “It’s probably the best place for us to do pro bono work that relates to race and the law.”
Virginia’s curriculum gives students the tools to understand legal theory and doctrine, then put what they have learned into practice.
Foundational courses teach students the principles of law, allowing them to learn to think like a lawyer, analyze problems and reason with clarity. A second tier of courses— clinics, simulation courses, externships—teach students practical skills and help them gain insights on their own interests and career goals. A third kind of course fosters the big-picture thinking that is critical to leadership.
Those courses draw on a variety of scholarly perspectives from faculty experts in history, jurisprudence, economics, politics, philosophy, sociology and more. They enable students to ask and answer pressing questions about justice and how the law does and should work. Outside of the classroom, students put what they have learned to work in pro bono projects, through student organization activities and more.
Since the Virginia Constitution was last overhauled in 1971, more than a few things have changed on gender-related issues in the national legal and cultural landscape. The federal right to abortion was solidified but is now in flux state by state, LGBTQ+ rights are again under fire, and women regularly serve in leadership positions in state and federal government.
For students in Professor Mila Versteeg’s Comparative Gender Equality class, who have studied how gender is treated in constitutions and laws around the globe, these signposts set up a classroom exercise in writing amendments to Virginia’s constitution—this time drafted from a feminist perspective.
As the capstone project to Versteeg’s semester-long class, her students participated in mock drafting sessions, together redlining and rewriting outdated provisions of Virginia’s constitution, including some that have been explicitly negated by U.S. Supreme Court rulings. After the provisions were drafted, debated and revised, students voted on the final product.
“The goal of the exercise was to bring together all the themes from the semester and to explore what role constitutions can play in promoting gender equality,” Versteeg said.
Constitutional Law
Corporate, Business and Transactional
Criminal Justice
Democracy and Civil Rights
Economics and Social Science
Education Law
Employment and Labor Law
Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law
Family, Gender and Sexuality
Health Law
Human Rights and Immigration
Intellectual Property
International and Comparative Law
Law and Technology
Law, Philosophy and Humanities
Legal History
Litigation and Dispute
Resolution
National Security Law
Public Service and Leadership
Race and Law
Tax Law
Center for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Center for Criminal Justice
Center for Empirical Studies in Law
Center for International & Comparative Law
Center for Law & Philosophy
Center for Public Law and Political Economy
Center for the Study of Race and Law
Center on Intellectual Property Law
Education Rights Institute
Family Law Center
John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program
John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
Health Law Program
Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program
Karsh Center for Law and Democracy LawTech Center
Legal History Program
National Security Law Center
PLACE: Program in Law, Communities and the Environment
Program in Constitutional Law
Program in Law and Public Service
Program in Public Policy and Regulation
Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation
Virginia Center for Tax Law
The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic has joined an effort to protect a historic African American schoolhouse and surrounding property, which community members say are threatened by a proposed landfill.
Pine Grove Elementary School in Cumberland County, Virginia, was built in 1917 as one of thousands of Rosenwald Schools constructed in the South to educate Black children in the Jim Crow era. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality are currently reviewing permit applications for the proposed Green Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility, a 1,200acre site that would be developed adjacent to the school.
Law students have been helping the community navigate the state and federal permitting process to ensure all safeguards are followed. They have also drafted Freedom of Information Act requests and delivered comments to state and federal agencies.
“The history here is important. It shouldn’t be filed away next to a landfill,” said Professor Cale Jaffe, the clinic’s director. “I accepted the case into the clinic because I wanted to give students the chance to work directly with a community and make sure that the community’s stories were elevated and cherished as an incredible monument to strength in the face of segregation, Jim Crow persecution and discrimination.”
The school’s 24 clinics provide students with real-world experience and contact with clients, giving them a head start as attorneys (see p. 44 for details).
Appellate Litigation
Rights
Organization and Social Enterprise
Defense
and Community Reentry
and
Law
Litigation
Project
Informed
Court Litigation
Through externships, students can receive class credit while engaging in substantial, practical legal work for a government or nonprofit organization.
Options include UVA Law in DC, which combines a seminar component with a Washington-area externship; part-time externships, which are usually local; fulltime externships for organizations anywhere in the world; and externships during the January term, which last for three weeks.
Externs learn to work under close supervision, receive feedback and engage in self-assessment. The externship program helps students adjust to their roles as professionals, become better problem-solvers, and develop interpersonal and professional skills from direct observation of and experience in the practice of law.
SYDNEY MERRITT ’24 externed with the Health Affairs division of UVA’s Office of the University Counsel
“My classes at UVA Law and my externship greatly informed each other and enriched my experience at UVA,” she said. “Not only did I build longlasting relationships with experienced attorneys who will continue to mentor me throughout my career, but I also gained practical skills and exposure to an incredible variety of client-facing work. My externship has been a formative experience in shaping my future career, and I could not be more grateful to have had this opportunity.”
Virginia offers nearly 300 courses and seminars each year.
Students studying interdisciplinary topics benefit from an environment where nearly half of all law faculty also hold advanced degrees in fields such as psychology, economics, philosophy, history, medicine and theology.
Each first-year student belongs to a “small section” of about 30 students during the first semester, which helps bond classmates from the start. Outside the classroom, students plan and program many of the conferences, lectures and panels that enrich the school’s intellectual life.
FALL
Civil Procedure
Contracts
Criminal Law
Legal Writing Torts
SPRING
Constitutional Law
Legal Writing
Property
5-7 hours of electives
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)
J.D.-M.A. in English, environmental science, government, foreign affairs, history and philosophy
J.D.-MBA
J.D.-M.D.
J.D.-M.P.H. (public health)
J.D.-M.P.P. (public policy)
J.D.-M.S. (accounting)
J.D.-M.U.E.P. (urban and environmental planning)
J.D.- Master’s in economic law at Sciences Po in Paris
J.D.-M.A. (international relations), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
J.D.-M.A.L.D. (law and diplomacy), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
J.D.-M.P.A. (public affairs), Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Students may create their own study-abroad program and spend one semester studying law in a foreign university law school or law department.
The Law School also offers January Term courses in Paris and Israel. Third-year students may apply to be UVA Law’s nominee in 12 international exchange programs:
Bocconi Law School, Milan
Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Instituto de Empresa, Madrid
Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, India
Melbourne Law School, Australia
Seoul National University, South Korea
Tel Aviv University Law School, Israel
University of Auckland, New Zealand
University of Paris II, France
University of Sydney, Australia
Waseda University, Tokyo
HOMETOWN: Baltimore
EDUCATION: Gettsyburg College, mathematical economics and public policy
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Clerkship with a judge on the Appellate Court of Maryland. “After that, I hope to work in public defense or legal aid in Maryland.”
“The Criminal Defense Clinic and Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy Clinic are run by amazing practitioners and provided me with so many invaluable experiences, including conducting my first state-level criminal trial and arguing on behalf of a client at his sentencing hearing before the Western District of Virginia.”
VIRGINIA’S FACULTY are renowned and innovative scholars in their fields, legendary for their commitment to classroom teaching and leaders in national conversations on cutting-edge legal issues.
The faculty help define the law, through their work with the American Law Institute and its Restatements of the Law. Eleven professors help advance knowledge and apply it to the problems of society as elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and faculty are often called upon to serve in government and other roles that shape policy. UVA Law is known for its classroom experience because of the knowledge and skills faculty bring to the podium.
From the Supreme Court to the halls of Congress to the national media, UVA’s experts are frequently called upon and cited for their insights. Numerous members of the faculty hold doctoral degrees in intersecting fields, including economics, history, philosophy, psychology and medicine.
Faculty commit to more than leading classes.
Faculty at Virginia are leaders in the intellectual life of the community, collaborating with colleagues and students to organize conferences and lectures, mentoring students, volunteering for pro bono service and fostering new academic programs.
Professor Danielle K. Citron has shined a spotlight on how internet companies profit from destructive activity—like so-called “revenge porn” or cyberstalking—for more than a decade.
The author of the book “The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age,” an Amazon Best Book of 2022, Citron has been working with lawmakers to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The law has been used as a shield for internet companies that might otherwise face legal liability for user content.
“What Section 230 gets wrong is the provision dealing with [immunity] when providers fail to address illegality, and worse, encourage illegality,” Citron said. “Right now [immunity] is not conditioned on anything at all, it is a free pass, so sites can encourage illegality and make money off it and still enjoy immunity.”
Citron received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, informally known as a genius grant, in 2019 for her work on cyberstalking and intimate privacy, including her efforts to
change how the public thinks about online harassment, from a perceived triviality to a civil rights problem.
As co-director of the school’s LawTech Center, she works with students who serve as fellows. Citron hired Laura Faas ’23 immediately after the student introduced herself via email. On a Zoom call, Faas talked with Citron about her difficult first semester of law school, which took place during the height of the pandemic.
“One of the things she told me was that she wants me to have the confidence in myself that she has in me,” Faas recalled. “For someone of that caliber to have that faith in me and that confidence in me, and I think to consider me a friend, is really impactful—and in the best way. I can’t really articulate how grateful I am for that.”
Faculty engage in public discourse to shape the law.
Beyond the Law Grounds, faculty members are engaged by law firms, corporations and government agencies as consultants. They testify before Congress on proposed federal laws, consult with foreign governments drafting new constitutions, and help explain to courts and other legal professionals new developments in the law. They engage generously in pro bono work, and are active in the local community, in professional organizations and in service to the commonwealth of Virginia.
Virginia is known for its collegial atmosphere and hallway conversations. Faculty members feel comfortable sharing working papers and seeking feedback from their colleagues.
Each junior faculty member has a senior faculty sponsor, who offers guidance and support. Opportunities to share scholarly ideas at an early stage include incubator lunches, in which small gatherings of faculty participate. The Law School also hosts regular faculty workshops and interdisciplinary workshops in law and economics, legal theory, law and social science, law and technology, and law and inequality with leading professors from Virginia and across the country. The Intellectual Life Fund provides faculty with resources to fund colloquia, speakers and conferences.
In any given year, the Law School includes nearly 100 resident full-time faculty members, about 10 faculty who teach a course at the Law School but who focus on disciplines other than law, several visiting professors and more than 100 adjunct faculty who are preeminent in their fields.
“I’ve been lucky enough to spend the whole of my teaching career at UVA Law, where scholarship and friendship flourish across differences in perspective, political orientation, experience and training. It’s a joy to be a part of this vibrant and supportive intellectual community.”
—Dean Leslie Kendrick
Public Service We believe lawyers have an obligation to serve.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
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—Robert F. Kennedy ’51
UVA LAW is committed to helping students make an impact in their communities and in the world. Through financial support, counseling, mentorship, and a network of peers and alumni practitioners, UVA Law prepares students to become leaders in public service.
The Virginia Loan Forgiveness Program helps repay the loans of graduates earning less than $100,000 annually. law.virginia.edu/loanforgive
The Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center provides individual counseling and sponsors events focused on educating students about working in the public sector. Counselors advise and prepare students seeking external summer funding and distinguished postgraduate fellowships such as Skadden and Equal Justice Works fellowships.
Through the Virginia Public Interest Interview Program, students interviewing with public service employers across the country receive funding to defray the costs of travel.
The school’s Kennedy Fellows receive funding to work for any public service employer they choose for the year after graduation.
Fellows receive a $50,000 salary and are eligible for the Virginia Loan Forgiveness Program. Recipients work in legal aid offices, prosecutors’ and public defenders’ offices, government agencies and nonprofit organizations across the country.
Alumni have obtained permanent positions immediately after their fellowships with employers such as the Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, The Bronx Defenders, District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office, National Labor Relations Board, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office, Southern Environmental Law Center, and various U.S. Senate and House committees.
HOMETOWN: Wake Forest, North Carolina
EDUCATION: United States Military Academy at West Point, engineering management
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Officer, U.S. Army JAG Corps
“UVA Law has given me every tool to succeed as an attorney. I am confident that the legal foundation I gained here will help me continue to serve in my military career and beyond. ... These three years challenged me and completely changed how I think about the world. I am so thankful to the amazing people of UVA Law for that.”
The school guarantees summer funding for all students working in public service.
In 2024, $960,000 was distributed to 162 students, including $48,000 in funds from the Public Interest Law Association First-year students each receive $5,000 and second-year students each receive $8,000 from the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center
The grants funded the internships of Bradley Noble’26 and Adeline Lee ’26 Noble worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he worked on cases related to public integrity or civil rights. Lee worked with the Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia, attending court hearings and assisting with individual case work, community outreach and legal research across several areas of law.
The Law School also supports students seeking national postgraduate fellowships.
Ruby Cherian ’23 earned a two-year appointment as an Equal Justice America fellow at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond, where she joined the civil rights and racial justice unit. She is pursuing civil rights claims on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Grace Zipperer ’24 is the Law School’s first recipient of the Immigrant Justice Corps’ two-year Justice Fellowship. After graduation, she moved to Yonkers, New York, to work for the Empire Justice Center, defending the rights of unaccompanied children seeking asylum and other immigration benefits.
This two-year fellowship awards a $55,000 yearly salary, benefits and loan forgiveness to a graduating student or judicial law clerk who enhances the delivery of legal services to the poor under the sponsorship of a host public interest organization.
As the Law School’s 23rd Powell Fellow in Legal Services, Michael Pruitt ’24 will work with Housing Opportunities Made Equal Inc. in Richmond, Virginia, to provide legal support to public benefits recipients who have been discriminated against in the housing application process.
“These relatively small cases can have really dramatic policy implications and ripples,” he said.
“Say a landlord who rents 400 rooms is made to change their policy—I’m helping 400 people through just one client.”
THE LAW SCHOOL fosters a robust public service community.
Virginia has more than 20 student organizations that work in the public interest, helping members gain experience and fostering a community of servant-leaders.
The Law School has a committed team of career counselors with experience as public interest attorneys who help students achieve their goals. Students also receive support from faculty and alumni mentors. The annual Shaping Justice Conference and dozens of public service panels and events bring distinguished public service attorneys to UVA Law each year.
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Founded in 2009, the program provides specialized courses and intensive training to prepare students for careers in public service. Students meet inspiring public interest lawyers from around the country in numerous events designed for fellows, and attend dinners, workshops and social events throughout the year.
The Pro Bono Program is a voluntary program encouraging all students to complete at least 75 hours of pro bono service during their three years of law school. Opportunities are available locally and
nationwide. The program also organizes pro bono projects that focus on areas such as child advocacy, immigration law and veterans’ disability claims. In addition to the many national pro bono
opportunities faculty and students explore, the school has strong ties to local legal aid organizations, such as Charlottesville’s nationally recognized Legal Aid Justice Center. The Law School has also partnered with Richmond-based law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth to offer pro bono services to indigent clients in the areas of immigration/asylum and family law. Members of
the UVA Law community regularly volunteer, sometimes in joint efforts at legal reform or legal aid. Opportunities to volunteer in regional community service organizations are plentiful.
AT VIRGINIA enjoy an array of clinics and courses that offer a wide range of practical training options.
Virginia’s clinics engage students in learning new skills from a variety of situations, from litigation and transactional work to problemsolving and drafting policy.
Students also benefit from experiential courses in public speaking, trial advocacy and professional responsibility, as well as extracurricular moot court and mock trial competitions.
Students brief and argue one or more appeals before a federal appeals court.
Students provide relief and legal support to individuals and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights.
Teams of students act as consultants and legal advisers for community organizations.
Students represent defendants in criminal cases in local courts, and develop a working familiarity with grand jury proceedings, indictments, pretrial motions, discovery, plea bargaining, motions and objections, evidentiary issues, sentencing and protecting the record for appeal.
Students assist formerly incarcerated people with resolving the collateral consequences of arrests and convictions, and with creating sustainable and effective reforms in their communities.
Economic
Students work with clients who have problems that are covered by various consumer protection laws, mainly those governing debt collection and other debt-related issues.
Students provide legal counseling and draft basic corporate documentation for startup companies.
Environmental
Students represent and counsel environmental nonprofits, citizens’ groups and community organizations seeking to protect
and restore the environment.
Through a unique opportunity to practice in federal court, students work to reduce the sentences of indigent federal inmates.
In conjunction with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, students undertake projects protecting First Amendment rights.
Students help represent mentally ill and elderly clients in negotiations, administrative hearings and court proceedings.
Students represent juvenile clients on delinquency matters, as well as related school discipline and special education matters.
Students handle eviction cases, rent escrow cases, grievance hearings and other enforcement of residents’ rights.
Students may work with clients to appeal denied applications for status, special categorization or other procedures.
Students investigate potential wrongful convictions of Virginia inmates through interviewing potential clients and witnesses, and searching and reviewing pertinent case files and records.
Students gain experience in human rights advocacy under the supervision of international human rights lawyers.
Students work with local nonprofit organizations on matters such as initial formation, tax-exempt status, ongoing legal compliance and good corporate governance.
These clinics train students in patent
drafting as well as the negotiation and drafting of patent and software license agreements.
Students collaborate with outside organizations to produce research and reliable data supporting criminal justice reform proposals.
Students undertake a prosecutor’s duties, including exercising discretion in the decision to prosecute, interacting with law enforcement, dealing with victims and witnesses, and establishing relationships with defense counsel.
Students engage with government agencies and legislators in the development of policies and legislation at the state and local level in Virginia, including educational policy.
Working in teams, students handle actual U.S. Supreme Court cases, from seeking review to briefing on the merits.
Cases may include wrongful-discharge actions, unemployment compensation claims, employment discrimination charges and other claims.
Students represent children involved in legal issues in the areas of education, foster care and social services, mental health and developmental disabilities, and delinquency.
❱ Williams Mullen partner Carrie Stanton ’11 taught Introduction to Law and Business and Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations during the 2022-23 school year. The Law School provides learning experiences that stretch beyond the classroom and give students practical experience and insight into the way the law functions.
Virginia’s Principles and Practice Program, a curricular innovation that was the first of its kind in the country, offers courses designed to give students the opportunity to apply legal theory in real-life situations. The program teams law professors with practitioners, judges and other professionals, melding the insights of theory with those of contemporary practice.
The Trial Advocacy College is an intensive eight-day experience offered annually between the fall and spring terms. Thirdyear students are enrolled with participants from some of the nation’s best litigation units in an intensive practice program with a faculty comprised of some of the best lawyers and judges in the country. This selective program supplements the 12 sections of trial advocacy offered each spring and fall.
Advanced Contracts: When Financial Contracts Blow Up
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Legal Writing: Civic Engagement and Persuasion
Advanced Verbal Persuasion
Appellate Practice
Bioethics and Law
Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration
Border Policy and Politics
Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations
Conservation Planning and Law
Corporate Strategy
Corporate Transactions
– Startup to Exit
Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp
Deals
Defining Leadership Moments
Designing Democracy: Participation
Designing Democracy: Representation
Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice
Electronic Discovery
Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice
Estate Planning: Principles and Practice
Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice
Federal Litigation Practice
Federal Practice and Procedure
Global Contracting: A Case Study
Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance
Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy
Human Rights Study Project
Innovating for Defense
Internal Investigations
International Business Negotiation
International Tax Practicum
Introduction to Negotiation Law and Leadership in the Public Interest
Law of Public-Private Partnerships
Law Reform and Impact
Litigation Seminar
Lawyers, Clerks, and Judicial Decision-making
Legal Research and Writing I
Legal Storytelling
Legislative Drafting and Public Policy
Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law
A variety of intensive short courses allow students to focus on specific subjects ranging from Islamic Law to the finance of small enterprises. Often taught by practicing lawyers, these courses allow students to spend anywhere from a few days to a few weeks studying real-world problems with top practitioners and scholars in the field.
Mediation Law and Practice
Medicare Practice Seminar
Music Law
Negotiating a Joint Venture in China
Negotiation
Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice
Oral Presentations In and Out of the Courtroom
Persuasion
Pretrial Litigation
Skills: Civil Rights
Problem-Solving in the Public Interest
Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills
Public M&A Negotiation
Public Safety and Civil Liberties - Practical Perspectives on Policing
Real Estate Transactions and Litigation
Regulatory Law and Policy
Securities Litigation and Enforcement
Spanish for Public Service Lawyers
Startup of a Medtech Company
Taking Effective Depositions
Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics
The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation
Topics in Private Company Acquisitions
Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions
Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation
Trial Advocacy
Trial Advocacy College
Youth Justice Practicum
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years.
48 Concentrations
52 Law and Business
56 Constitutional Law 60 Criminal Law
64 Education Law
66 Environmental and Land Use Law
68 Family Law
70 Health Law
74 Immigration, Migration and Human Rights
78 Intellectual Property
80 International and National Security Law 84 Law and Democracy
88 Law and Philosophy
90 Law and Technology
Legal History 96 Public Policy and Regulation
100 Race and Law
104 Tax Law
VIRGINIA LAW offered the following courses during the past three academic years.
Numbers indicate the academic year(s) each course was offered: 2022-23 is coded (23), 2023-24 is (24) and 2024-25 is (25).
Courses marked (JAG) are offered by the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, located next door to the Law School. Students are not required to follow a particular concentration, nor is it noted on transcripts.
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Contracts
Criminal Law
Legal Research and Writing
Property
Torts
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Administrative Law (23,24,25)
Advanced Administrative Law (23)
Advanced Topics in Federal Courts Seminar (23)
Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses) (25) After Dobbs (23) Agencies in Court (25)
Business and Governmental Tort Liability (23)
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law (23,25)
Civil Rights Litigation (23,24,25)
Civil War and the Constitution (24)
Climate and Debt (24)
Comparative Constitutional Law (23,24,25)
Comparative Freedom of Speech Law Seminar (24,25)
Congress, Oversight and the Separation of Powers (24)
Constitutional Law and Economics (23,24)
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Religion (23,24,25)
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (23,24,25)
Constitutional Law II: Poverty (23)
Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties (23,24)
Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions (23,24) Courts (23,24)
Criminal Adjudication (23,24,25)
Criminal Investigation (23,24,25)
Criminal Procedure Survey (23,24,25)
Designing Democracy: Participation (23)
Designing Democracy: Representation (24)
Education Law Survey (23)
Federal Courts (23,24,25)
Federal Sentencing (23,24,25)
Federalism (23,24)
Founders and Foes (23)
History of American Federalism (23,25)
History of the American Administrative State (24)
International Arbitration (24)
Law and Inequality Colloquium (23,24,25)
Law and Riots (23,24,25)
Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation (23,25)
Law, Inequality and Education Reform (25) Legislation (23,24)
Legislation and Regulation (23,25)
Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election (25)
Monetary Constitution Seminar (23,24,25)
Monument Litigation (25)
Native American Law (24)
Organizational DEI Programs (24)
Pain and the Law (25)
Parental Choice in K-12 Education (23)
Perspectives on Sovereignty - Native American Law (23,25)
Practical Perspectives on Policing: Fair and Effective Policymaking by Law Enforcement (24)
Privacy (23,24,25)
Privacy Law and Theory Seminar (23,24,25)
Privacy Torts (24,25)
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies (23,24,25)
Public Law Colloquium (25)
Race, Education and Opportunity (23)
Racial Justice and Law (23,24,25)
Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar (24,25)
Regulation of the Political Process (23,25)
Regulatory Law and Policy (23,25)
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights (24)
Religious Freedom: Current Challenges (24)
Reproductive Rights and Justice (24,25)
School Desegregation,
School Integration (24)
SCOTUS: Opacity and Privilege (25)
Second Amendment and Gun Violence Colloquium (25)
Separation of Powers in the Federal Courts Seminar (23,24)
State Attorneys General (24,25)
State Constitutionalism (25)
Supreme Court Justices and the Art of Judging (23,24)
Supreme Court: October Term (24,25)
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History (25)
The Executive Branch: Comparative and Political Aspects (24)
The Great Writ (24,25)
The January 6th Investigation and How Courts Can Shape Congress’ Power to Investigate (24)
The Institutional Supreme Court (24)
The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel (23,24,25)
The Right to Protest (24)
CLINICS
Appellate Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
First Amendment Clinic (23,24,25)
Project for Informed Reform Clinic (23,24,25)
State and Local Government Policy Clinic (23,24,25)
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (23,24,25)
Advising Boards of Directors (Public and Private Equity) Under Siege (23,24,25)
Agency, Partnership and the LLC (24,25)
Antitrust (23,24,25)
Antitrust in the Digital Economy (24)
Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment (23,24,25)
Banking and Financial Institutions (23,24,25)
Bankruptcy (23,24,25)
Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (23)
BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law (23,24,25)
Business and Governmental Tort Liability (23)
Business Planning (23,24)
Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations (23)
Contract Theory (23,25)
Corporate Democracy: The Proxy Fight (25)
Corporate Finance (23,24,25)
Corporate Governance - Shareholder Activism (24)
Corporate Law as Innovation (24)
Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery (23,25
Corporate Social Responsibility Seminar (25)
Corporate Strategy (24)
Corporate Tax (23,24,25)
Corporate Transactions
- Startup to Exit (23,24) Corporations (23,24,25) Corporations (Law & Business) (23,24,25)
Corporations, Investors and ESG (23,24)
Cryptocurrency Law and Policy (23,24)
Deals (23)
Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (23,24,25)
Emerging AI Legal Issues (25)
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Employee Benefits Law (25)
Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (23)
EU Business Law (25)
European Union Law (24)
Federal Regulation of Investment Companies (25)
Feminism and the Free Market (24,25)
Franchise Law (23)
Global Business and International Corruption (23,24,25)
Global Contracting: A
Case Study (23,24,25)
Government Contract Law (23,24)
Inside the Boardroom (23,24,25)
Insurance (23,25)
Internal Investigations (25)
International Business Negotiation (23,24,25)
International Business Transactions (24,25)
International Debt Transactions (23)
International Sales Law (25)
International Taxation (23,24,25)
International Trade Law and Policy (23,24,25)
Introduction to Law and Business (23,24,25)
Introduction to Negotiation (25)
Israeli Business Law and Innovation (23)
Law and Business Colloquium (24,25)
Law of Public-Private Partnerships (23,24,25)
Leadership and Team Management (23,25)
Legal Issues in Corporate Finance (Law & Business) (24)
Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (23,24,25)
Management of BigLaw
Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits (23,24,25)
Mergers and Acquisitions (23,24,25)
Monetary Constitution Seminar (23,24,25)
Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (23)
Nonprofit Organizations (23,24,25)
Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
On Purpose: An Introduction to Leadership, Decision-making and Culture (24,25)
Partnership Tax (23,24,25)
Personal Data Protection in Europe (23)
Public M&A Negotiation (23)
Real Estate Transactions and Litigation (23,24,25)
Repugnant Transactions (23,24,25)
Rise of ESG in Corporate Law and Governance (23)
Secured Transactions (23,24,25)
Securities Litigation and Enforcement (23,24,25)
Securities Regulation (23,24,25)
Securities Regulation (Law & Business) (23,24,25)
Sports Law (23,24,25)
Stakeholderism and Business Law (24)
Taboo Trades (23,24,25)
The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation (23,24,25)
The In-House Lawyer: Duties and Tensions (24)
Topics in Banking and Financial Regulation (24)
Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (23,24,25)
Topics in Public Equity Investing (23,25)
Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions (23,24,25)
Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation (23,24,25)
Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (25)
When Financial Contracts Blow Up (24)
Wine and the Law (23)
CLINICS
Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic I (23,24,25)
Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic II (23,24,25)
Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (23,24,25)
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Nonprofit Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Cannabis Legalization (24)
Computer Crime Law (24,25)
Criminal Adjudication (23,24,25)
Criminal Investigation (23,24,25)
Criminal Law
Colloquium (24,25)
Criminal Procedure Survey (23,24,25)
Criminology (23,24)
Crimmigration Law: Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law (24,25)
Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice (25)
Education Inside U.S. Prisons Seminar (23,24,25)
Evolution of Holistic Defense (23,24,25)
Federal Criminal Law (23)
Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice (23,24,25)
Federal Sentencing (23,24,25)
Forensic Psychology in Criminal Proceedings (24)
Global Business and International Corruption (23,24,25)
Law and Inequality Colloquium (23,24,25)
Law and Public Service (23,24,25)
Law of Corruption (23)
Law of the Police I:
Rules, Rights and Regulation (23,25)
New Research in Criminal Justice (25)
Plea Bargaining (23,24)
Political Prisoners (24,25)
Practical Perspectives on Policing: Fair and Effective Policymaking by Law Enforcement (24)
Public Law Colloquium (25)
Race and Criminal Justice (23,24)
Rethinking Criminal Justice (23)
Second Amendment and Gun Violence Colloquium (25)
The Great Writ (24,25)
CLINICS
Advanced Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (23,24,25)
Criminal Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (23,24,25)
Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy Clinic (23,24,25)
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Innocence Project Clinic (23,24,25)
Project for Informed Reform Clinic (23,24,25)
Prosecution Clinic (23,24,25)
DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS
COURSES AND SEMINARS After Dobbs (23)
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy (25)
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law (23,25)
Civil Rights Litigation (23,24,25)
Civil War and the Constitution (24)
Comparative Constitutional Law (23,24,25)
Comparative Freedom of Speech Law Seminar (24,25)
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Religion (23,24,25)
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (23,24,25)
Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties (23,24)
Designing Democracy: Participation (23) Designing Democracy: Representation (24)
Disability Law (24)
Education Law Survey (23) Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (23)
Law and Legality in Non-Democratic Contexts (25) Law and Riots (23,24,25) Law of Corruption (23) Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation (23,25) Law, Inequality and Education Reform (25) Legislative Drafting and Public Policy (23,24)
Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election (25)
Monument Litigation (25)
Pain and the Law (25)
Political Prisoners (24,25)
Poverty Law and the Lawyer’s Role (24)
Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy (23)
Pretrial Litigation Skills: Civil Rights (23,24,25)
Privacy Torts (24,25)
Race, Class and Democratic Legitimacy (24)
Race, Education and Opportunity (23)
Racial Justice and Law (23,24,25)
Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar (24,25)
Regulation of the Political Process (23,25)
Rule of Law and Its Threats (23,25)
Second Amendment and Gun Violence Colloquium (25)
State and Local Government Law (24)
State Attorneys General (24,25)
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History (25)
The January 6th Investigation and How Courts Can Shape Congress’ Power to Investigate (SC) (24
The Right to Protest (24)
CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
First Amendment Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Antitrust (23,24,25)
Bankruptcy (23,24,25)
Behavioral Law and Economics (23)
Constitutional Law and Economics (23,24)
Corporate Finance (23,24,25)
Corporate Law as Innovation (24)
Criminology (23,24)
Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice (25)
Empirical Legal Studies (25)
Empirical Legal Studies I (24)
Empirical Legal
Studies II (24)
Law and Economics (23,24,25)
Law and Economics
Colloquium (23,25)
Law and Social Science
Colloquium (23)
Law and Social Science Workshop (24)
Psychology for Lawyers (25)
Rethinking Criminal Justice (23)
Rules (24,25)
Second Amendment and Gun Violence
Colloquium (25)
Single People and the Law (25)
Social Science in Law (23,24)
The Economic Tools of National Security (24,25)
Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (25)
War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions (23)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Education Inside U.S. Prisons Seminar (23,24,25)
Education Law Survey (23)
Law, Inequality and Education Reform (25)
Parental Choice in K-12 Education (23)
Race, Education and Opportunity (23)
School Desegregation, School Integration (24)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Baseball (23,24,25)
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law (23,25)
Disability Law (24)
Employee Benefits Law (25)
Employment Discrimination (23,24,25)
Employment Law: Contracts, Torts and Statutes (23,24,25)
Employment Law: Health and Safety (24,25)
Employment Law: Wage and Hour Regulation (23)
Internal Investigations (25)
Labor Law (23,24,25)
Sports Law (23,24,25)
Trade Secret Law (23,24,25)
CLINIC
Workplace Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Climate and Debt (24)
Climate Change Law (23)
Climate Law and
Climate Ethics (24)
Conservation Planning and Law (23,24,25)
Contemporary Housing Policy Debates (25)
Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (23)
Energy Regulation and Policy (23,24)
Environmental Law (23,24,25)
Historic Preservation Law (23)
Housing Law and Poverty Seminar (23,24,25)
International Environmental Law (23)
Land Use Law (23,25)
Law of Public-Private Partnerships (23,24,25)
Monument Litigation (25)
Natural Resources Law and Policy (23,25)
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies (23,24,25)
Public Utility Regulation Seminar (23,25)
Rise of ESG in Corporate Law and Governance (23)
State and Local Government Law (24)
Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation (23,25)
Urban Law and Policy (23,24)
Wine and the Law (23)
CLINICS
Advanced Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (23,24,25)
Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (23,24,25)
Housing Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS After Dobbs (23) Children and the Law (23,24,25)
Comparative Gender Equality (23,24,25)
Education Law Survey (23)
Estate Planning: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Family Law (23,24,25)
Feminism and the Free Market (24,25)
Feminist Jurisprudence (23,24,25)
Gender and Queer Equality (25)
International and Comparative Family Law (23)
Medicalization and the Law (23)
Parental Choice in
K-12 Education (23)
Practical Trust and Estate Administration (23,24,25)
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights (24)
Reproductive Ethics and Law (23,24,25)
Reproductive Rights and Justice (24,25)
Sexuality and the Law (23,25)
Single People and the Law (25)
Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts (23)
Trusts and Estates (23,24,25)
CLINICS
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Youth Advocacy Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
After Dobbs (23)
Bioethics And Law
Internship Seminar:
Health Policy and Administration (23,24,25)
Bioethics and the Law Seminar (24,25)
Biotechnology and the Law (25)
Blood Feud (23,24)
Cannabis Legalization (24)
Current Topics in Law, Medicine and Society (23,24,25)
Disability Law (24)
Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (23,24,25)
Drug Product Liability
Litigation: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Food and Drug Law (24)
Food Systems Law and Policy (23)
Forensic Psychology in Criminal Proceedings (24)
Genetics and the Law (24,25)
Genetics and the Law: Exercises in Rule-Making (23)
Health Care Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform (23,25)
Health Law Survey (23,24,25)
Law and Ethics of Biotechnology (23)
Law and the Social Determinants of Health (24)
Medicalization and the Law (23)
Mental Health Law (24)
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights (24)
Reproductive Ethics and Law (23,24,25)
Reproductive Rights and Justice (24)
Ten-Year Checkup of the Affordable Care Act (24)
CLINICS
Health and Disability Law Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Border Policy and Politics (23,24,25)
Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties (23,24)
Crimmigration: Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law (24,25)
Human Rights Study Project (23,24,25)
Immigration Law and Policy (23,24,25)
International Human Rights Law (23,24,25)
Law and Inequality
Colloquium (23,24,25)
Law and Public Service (23,24,25)
Law of Armed Conflict (23,24,25)
Political Prisoners (24,25)
Race, Education and Opportunity (23)
U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar (25)
CLINICS
Immigration Law Clinic (23,24,25)
International Human Rights Law Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
AI and IP (25)
Antitrust in the Digital Economy (24)
Art Law (24,25)
Biotechnology and the Law (25)
Computer Crime Law (24,25)
Copyright Law (23,24,25)
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (23,24)
Internet Law (23)
Israeli Business Law and Innovation (23)
Law and Artificial Intelligence (23,25)
Law and Technology
Colloquium (23,24)
Law of Artificial Intelligence (24)
Music Law: Analytical and Client Management Skills (23,24)
Patent Law (23,24,25)
Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (23,24)
Trade Secret Law (23,24,25)
Trademark Law (23,24,25)
Transactional Intellectual Property Law (25)
CLINICS
Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic (23,24,25)
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Patent and Licensing Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Admiralty (24,25)
An American Half-Century (23,24,25)
Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment (23,24,25)
Chinese Law (23,24)
Climate Change Law (23)
Comparative Constitutional Law (23,24,25)
Comparative Freedom of Speech Law Seminar (24,25)
Comparative Gender Equality (23,24,25)
Constitutionalism:
Nation, Culture and Constitutions (23,24)
Datafication, Automation and Inequality (23)
Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
European Union Law (24)
Foreign Relations Law (23,24,25)
French Public and Private Law (23,24,25)
Geopolitics, Law and the World Economy (25)
Global Business and International Corruption (23,24,25)
Global Contracting: A Case Study (23,24,25)
Global Legal History (23)
Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (24,25)
Governing the World Seminar (23,24)
International and Comparative Family Law (23)
International Arbitration (24)
International Business Negotiation (23,24,25)
International Business Transactions (24,25)
International Civil Litigation (23)
International Debt Transactions (23)
International Environmental Law (23)
International Human Rights Law (23,24,25)
International Law (23,24,25)
International Law and the Use of Force (23)
International Sales Law (25)
International Settlement of Disputes: Methods and Forums (25)
International Tax Practicum (23,24,25)
International Taxation (23,24,25)
International Trade Law and Policy (23,24,25)
Israeli Business Law and Innovation (23)
Jewish Law Jurisprudence: From the Bible to the Rabbis (25)
Judicial Opinions (24)
Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief Introduction (23,24,25)
Legal Theory Workshop Seminar (25)
Native American Law (24)
Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (23)
Personal Data Protection in Europe (23)
Perspectives on Sovereignty - Native American Law (23,25)
Political Prisoners (24,25)
Seminar in Ethical Values (23,24,25)
Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics (23,24,25)
The Right to Protest (24)
War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions (23)
CLINICS
International Human Rights Law Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
AI and IP (25)
AI and the Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of AI Technologies (24)
Antitrust in the Digital Economy (24)
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy (25)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (25)
Biotechnology and the Law (25)
Computer Crime Law (24,25)
Cryptocurrency Law and Policy (23,24)
Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp (25)
Cybersecurity Law and Policy (23,24)
Drug Product Liability
Litigation: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Emerging AI Legal Issues (25)
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (25)
Food and Drug Law (24)
Genetics and the Law (24,25)
Genetics and the Law: Exercises in Rule-Making (23)
Innovating for Defense (23,24)
Internet Law (23)
Law and Artificial Intelligence (23,25)
Law and Ethics of Biotechnology (23)
Law and Technology
Colloquium (23,24)
Law of Artificial Intelligence (24)
LawTech (23,25)
Legal Practice and the
Startup Company: An Inside Look (23,24,25)
National Security Law (23,24)
Patent Law (23,24,25)
Privacy (23,24,25)
Privacy Law and Theory Seminar (23,24,25)
Repugnant Transactions (23,24,25)
Science and the Courts (23,24,25)
Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (23,24)
Taboo Trades (23,24,25)
Trade Secret Law (23,24,25)
Transactional Intellectual Property Law (25)
CLINICS
Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic (23,24,25)
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Patent and Licensing Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Bioethics and the Law Seminar (24,25)
Climate Law and Climate Ethics (24)
Contract Theory (23,25)
Critical Race Theory (24)
Dignity Law Seminar (23,24)
Discrimination Theory (24)
Feminist Jurisprudence (23,24,25)
Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (23)
Interpretation Theory and Methods (25)
Law and Literature: Storytelling (24,25)
Law and Theories of Justice (23,25)
Law, Literature and Social Policy Seminar (23)
Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief Introduction (23,24,25)
Liberalism and Conservatism (23)
Liberalism and Its Critics (25)
Mindfulness and Legal Practice (25)
Neoliberalism (24)
Pain and the Law (25)
Philosophical Legal Ethics (23)
Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture (23)
Social Identity, Critical Theory and the Law (23)
Sports and Games (23,24,25)
Voice and Silence in Law and Literature Seminar (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
American Legal History Seminar (23)
An American Half-Century (23,24,25)
Civil War and the Constitution (24)
Constitutional Law II: Poverty (23)
English Legal History to 1776 (25)
Federalism (23,24)
Founders and Foes (23)
Global Legal History (23)
History of American Federalism (23,25)
History of the American Administrative State (24)
Jewish Law Jurisprudence: From the Bible to the Rabbis (25)
Law in American History: 20th Century (23,24)
Monetary Constitution Seminar (23,24,25)
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies (23,24,25)
Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds (23,24,25)
Roman Law (24)
School Desegregation, School Integration (24)
Supreme Court Justices and the Art of Judging (23,24)
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History (25)
The Great Writ (24,25)
The Institutional Supreme Court (24)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Legal Research (23,24,25)
Advanced Topics in Federal Courts Seminar (23)
Advanced Verbal Persuasion (23,24,25)
Advancing the Commitment to Service Through Law Firm Pro Bono (23,24,25)
Agencies in Court (25)
Appellate Practice (23,24,25)
Civil Rights Litigation (23,24,25)
Conflict of Laws (23,24,25)
Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery (23,25)
Criminal Procedure Survey (23,24,25)
Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (23,24,25)
Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Electronic Discovery (23,25)
Evidence (23,24,25)
Evolution of Holistic Defense (23,24,25)
Federal Courts (23,24,25)
Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice (23,24,25)
Federal Litigation
Practice (23,24,25)
Federal Practice and Procedure (24)
Forensic Psychology in Criminal Proceedings (24)
Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (24,25)
Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy (23,24,25)
Internal Investigations (25)
International Arbitration (24)
International Civil Litigation (23)
Introduction to Negotiation (25)
Judicial Opinions (24)
Law and Public Service (23,24,25)
Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar (23,24,25)
Lawyers, Clerks and Judicial Decision-making (23,24)
Legal Storytelling (24,25)
Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election (25)
Litigation and Public Policy (23)
Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law (23,24,25)
Mediation Law and Practice (25)
Monument Litigation (25)
Negotiation (23,24,25)
Oral Presentations
In and Out of the Courtroom (23,24,25)
Persuasion (23,24,25)
Plea Bargaining (23,24)
Political Prisoners (24,25)
Practical Perspectives on Policing: Fair and Effective Policymaking by Law Enforcement (24)
Pretrial Litigation Skills: Civil Rights (23,24,25)
Professional Responsibility (23,24,25)
Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Law Practice (23,24,25)
Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (23)
Remedies (23,24,25)
Science and the Courts (23,24,25)
Securities Litigation and Enforcement (23,24,25)
State Attorneys General (24,25)
Taking Effective Depositions (23,24,25)
Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar (23)
The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel (23,24,25)
Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts (23)
Trial Advocacy (23,24,25)
Trial Advocacy College (23,24,25)
Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (25)
Virginia Practice and Procedure (23,24,25)
CLINICS
Advanced Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (23,24,25)
Advanced Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (23,24,25)
Appellate Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
Civil Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
Criminal Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (23,24,25)
Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (23,24,25)
Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (23,24,25)
Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy Clinic (23,24,25)
First Amendment Clinic (23,24,25)
Health and Disability Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Housing Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
Immigration Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Innocence Project Clinic (23,24,25)
International Human Rights Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Prosecution Clinic (23,24,25)
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
Workplace Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
Youth Advocacy Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Admiralty (24,25)
Advanced Crimes and Defenses (JAG) (23,24)
Advanced Topics in Professional Responsibility (JAG) (23,24)
Advanced Topics in the Law of Armed Conflict (JAG) (23,24)
Border Policy and Politics (23,24,25)
Challenges in Military Justice (24)
Critical Analysis of the Military Justice System (JAG) (23,24)
Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp (25)
Cybersecurity Law and Policy (23,24)
Digital Evidence from Theory to Practice (JAG) (23,24)
Economic Statecraft and Public International Law (23,25)
Foreign Relations
Law (23,24,25)
Government Secrecy (24)
History and Evolution of Victims’ Rights (JAG) (23,24)
Immigration Law and Policy (23,24,25)
Innovating for Defense (23,24)
International Human Rights (JAG) (23)
International Law and the Use of Force (23)
Introduction to Legal Aspects of Cyberspace Operations (JAG) (23,24)
Law of Armed Conflict (23,24,25)
Law of Sea, Air and Space Operations (JAG) (23,24)
National Security Law (23,24)
National Security Law Proseminar I (JAG) (24)
National Security Law Proseminar II (JAG) (24)
Personal Data Protection in Europe (23)
Rights of the Accused (JAG) (23,24)
Special Topics in Client Services (JAG) (23,24)
The Economic Tools of National Security (24,25)
Veteran Benefits and Retirement Planning (JAG) (23,24)
War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions (23)
War Crimes and Atrocity Law (JAG) (23,24)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (23,24,25)
Advancing the Commitment to Service Through Law Firm Pro Bono (23,24,25)
Defining Leadership Moments (23)
Introduction to Negotiation (25)
Law and Leadership in the Public Interest (24,25)
Law and Organizing Seminar (25)
Law and Public Service (23,24,25)
Leadership and Team Management (23,25)
Litigation and Public Policy (23)
On Purpose: An Introduction to Leadership, Decision-making and Culture (24,25)
Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowships (23,24,25)
Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Law Practice (23,24,25)
Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (23)
Advanced Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (23,24,25)
Advanced Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (23,24,25)
Civil Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic I (23,24,25)
Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic II (23,24,25)
Criminal Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (23,24,25)
Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (23,24,25)
Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (23,24,25)
Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy Clinic (23,24,25)
First Amendment Clinic (23,24,25)
Health and Disability Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic (23,24,25)
Housing Litigation Clinic (23,24,25)
Immigration Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Innocence Project Clinic (23,24,25)
International Human Rights Law Clinic (23,24,25)
Project for Informed Reform Clinic (23,24,25)
Prosecution Clinic (23,24,25)
State and Local Government Policy Clinic (23,24,25)
Workplace Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
Youth Advocacy Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
American Legal History Seminar (23)
Asian Americans and the Law (23,24,25)
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law (23,25)
Civil Rights Litigation (23,24,25)
Civil War and the Constitution (24)
Constitutional Law II: Poverty (23)
Criminal Adjudication (23,24,25)
Criminal Investigation (23,24,25)
Criminal Procedure Survey (23,24,25)
Critical Race Theory (23,24)
Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice (25)
Designing Democracy: Participation (23)
Designing Democracy:
Representation (24)
Education Law Survey (23)
Employment Discrimination (23,24,25)
Housing Law and Poverty Seminar (23,24,25)
Immigration Law and Policy (23,24,25)
International Human Rights Law (23,24,25)
Land Use Law (23,25)
Law and Inequality
Colloquium (23,24,25)
Law and Inequality
Writing Seminar (24)
Law and the Social Determinants of Health (24)
Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation (23,25)
Law, Inequality and Education Reform (25)
Monument Litigation (25)
Native American Law (24)
Organizational DEI Programs (24)
Parental Choice in K-12
Education (23)
Perspectives on Sovereignty - Native American Law (23,25)
Poverty Law and the Lawyer’s Role (24)
Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy (23)
Race and Criminal Justice (23,24)
Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds (23,24,25)
Race, Class and Democratic Legitimacy (24)
Race, Education and Opportunity (23)
Race, Law and School Policing (23)
Race, Meritocracy and Justice on Campus (25)
Racial Justice and Law (23,24,25)
Reparations: Identity, Law and Politics (23,25)
Reproductive Rights and Justice (25)
School Desegregation, School Integration (24)
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History (25)
CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (23,24,25)
Project for Informed Reform Clinic (23,24,25)
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (23,24,25)
Cannabis Legalization (24)
Corporate Tax (23,24,25)
Employee Benefits Law (25)
Estate Planning: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Federal Income Tax (23,24,25)
International Tax Practicum (23,24,25)
International Taxation (23,24,25)
Nonprofit Organizations (23,24,25)
Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (23,24,25)
Partnership Tax (23,24,25)
Practical Trust and Estate Administration (23,24,25)
Public Law Colloquium (25)
TaxFlix (23)
Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar (23)
Tax Treaties and Other International Topics (23,24,25)
Trusts and Estates (23,24,25)
CLINIC
Nonprofit Clinic (23,24,25)
❱ Professor George S. Geis teaches Contracts, Legal Issues in Corporate Finance, and other Law & Business courses. His recent research looks at how blockchain technology could change corporate law and how shares are traced.
The John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program builds a bridge between law school and the actual practice of business law.
By integrating business and legal analysis into the law school classroom, the program better prepares students to serve their future clients from day one.
The program is designed for students aspiring to structure and negotiate business transactions, advise company directors and management, represent businesses in litigation and disputes, begin their careers in a corporate position or serve in government regulatory agencies.
Students who participate in the program gain experience with the types of sophisticated and challenging projects they will encounter in their careers.
UVA’S CORPORATE LAW FACULTY are leaders in their fields and former practitioners who bring their expertise to bear on their research.
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❱ Edwin Hu’s scholarship is focused on the empirical analysis of corporate and securities law and the structure of financial markets.
❱ Four of Cathy
articles have been named among the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of the
❱ In addition to being an expert on the regulation of financial markets and businesses, Kim Krawiec writes on “taboo trades” such as commercial surrogacy, egg and sperm markets, and sex work.
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Students can take advantage of an extensive set of curricular opportunities that allow them the flexibility to sample or dive deep according to their interests.
For students without a financial background, courses taught by UVA’s business and law faculty lay a foundation for understanding the corporate world. They include Accounting and Corporate Finance, Corporate Strategy and other classes focused on business skills.
Core business law courses include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Bankruptcy, Employment, Environmental Law, Income Tax, Antitrust and Intellectual Property.
Students who have taken the introductory Accounting and Corporate Finance course or who have equivalent experience are eligible to take enhanced versions of core Law & Business courses that incorporate finance and quantitative concepts. These typically include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Secured Transactions, Corporate Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions, which are often taught by resident faculty members with graduate degrees in economics or finance.
Virginia ranks third after Harvard in the number of chief legal officers at the nation’s top 500 companies. Alumni lead the following legal divisions:
❱ BlackRock ❱ The Carlyle Group
❱ HanesBrand ❱ The Hershey Co.
❱ Hess Corp. ❱ Netflix ❱ Patagonia
❱ Sallie Mae ❱ Uber ❱ Walmart and more
Students can access a variety of extracurricular activities, including:
❱ The Virginia Law & Business Review, a leading studentedited business law journal
❱ Rivanna Investments, a student organization dedicated to learning the art of intelligent investing
❱ Virginia Law & Business Society, which has sponsored academic, professional and social activities since its founding in 1981
Related groups include the JD/ MBA Society, the Virginia Employment and Labor Law Association, and the Health Law Association.
Typically offered in small seminar settings, advanced courses prepare students for real-world situations and teach students how to use the law to find constructive solutions to business problems. Top practitioners from law firms, business and government, as well as UVA faculty, engage students in hands-on exercises, such as deal-structuring, negotiating and counseling.
The In-House Lawyer: Duties and Tensions, taught by David Leitch, former general counsel and vice chair of Bank of America, and Deborah Majoras, former chief legal officer and secretary for Procter & Gamble.
International Business Negotiation, with Kenneth Starling, a retired DLA Piper partner and former official in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
Topics In Public Equity Investing, taught by Barney Wilson, founder and portfolio manager of Robious Capital.
Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions, taught by Peter Lyons, a legal consultant for the HBO show “Succession.”
LAW AND BUSINESS
Professor Jay Butler (434) 924-5459
jbutler@law.virginia.edu
law.virginia.edu/business
Antitrust
Banking and Financial Institutions
Bankruptcy
BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law
Complex Commercial Contract
Negotiations
Contract Theory
Corporate Democracy: The Proxy Fight
Corporate Finance
Corporate Law as Innovation
Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery
Corporate Social Responsibility Seminar
Corporate Strategy
Corporate Tax
Corporate Transactions –Startup to Exit Corporations
Corporations, Investors and ESG
Cryptocurrency Law and Policy
Emerging AI Legal Issues
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
Financing: Principles and Practice
Energy and Environmental Products
Trading and Commodities Regulation
European Union Law
Federal Regulation of Investment Companies
Global Business and International Corruption
International Business Negotiation
International Business Transactions
International Debt Transactions
Introduction to Negotiation
Leadership and Team Management
Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look
Mergers and Acquisitions
Nonprofit Organizations On Purpose: An Introduction to Leadership, Decision-making and Culture
Public M&A
Negotiation
Repugnant Transactions
Rise of ESG in Corporate Law and Governance
Secured Transactions
Securities Litigation and Enforcement
Securities Regulation
Securities Regulation
Sports Law
Taboo Trades
Topics in Private Company
Acquisitions
Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions
Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers
When Financial Contracts Blow Up
CLINICS
Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic I and II
Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
Nonprofit Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
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Many professors are U.S. Supreme Court experts or former SCOTUS clerks, and several have argued before the court, including six resident faculty members since 2010.
In its most recent term, the justices cited UVA Law professors 18 times.
With more than 30 faculty members who are experts in constitutional law, Virginia offers an unparalleled variety of lecture courses, seminars and clinics in the field.
COURSES cover topics such as the First Amendment, administrative law, presidential power, federal courts, police and the law, election law, civil rights, separation of powers, race and the law, and more.
❱ Professor Risa Goluboff testified in her personal capacity at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Goluboff has known Jackson personally and professionally since 1998.
❱ Rachel Bayefsky, who writes about constitutional law, federal courts, civil procedure and legal theory, explores dignity in the legal process.
❱ David S. Law’s expertise is in the comparative study of public law and courts; he is a pioneer in the application of empirical social science methods to the study of legal texts.
❱ Bertrall Ross is focused on democratic responsiveness and accountability, as well as the inclusion of marginalized communities in administrative and political processes.
❱ Michael D. Gilbert teaches and writes about election law, legislation, and law and economics, as well as misinformation and corruption.
❱ Caleb E. Nelson teaches civil procedure, federal courts and statutory interpretation, and is the author of a casebook on legislation.
❱ Frederick Schauer is one of the nation’s leading legal scholars and the author of numerous books on constitutional law, free speech and legal theory.
❱ Deborah Hellman focuses on equal protection and its philosophical justification, and the relationship between money and legal rights.
❱ Daniel R. Ortiz,, a constitutional law and elections expert, has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
❱ Micah J. Schwartzman’s work focuses on law and religion, jurisprudence, political philosophy and constitutional law.
❱ Payvand Ahdout focuses on modern uses of judicial power through the lens of federal courts, and recently won the Yale Law Journal’s inaugural Emerging Scholar of the Year Award
❱ Leslie Kendrick is an expert on freedom of expression who teaches courses in torts, property and constitutional law.
❱ A frequent commentator on the Supreme Court, Richard M. Re’s work focuses on criminal procedure, federal courts and constitutional law.
❱ Lawrence B. Solum is an internationally recognized legal theorist who works in constitutional theory, procedure and the philosophy of law.
Administrative Law
Advanced Administrative Law
Advanced Topics in Federal Courts Seminar
Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses)
After Dobbs Agencies in Court
Appellate Litigation Clinic
Business and Governmental Tort Liability
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law
Civil Rights Litigation
Civil War and the Constitution
Climate and Debt
Comparative Constitutional Law
Comparative Freedom of Speech Law Seminar
Congress, Oversight and the Separation of Powers
Constitutional Law and Economics
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Religion
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press
Constitutional Law II: Poverty
Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties
Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions
Courts
Criminal Adjudication
Criminal Investigation
Criminal Procedure Survey
Designing Democracy: Participation
Designing Democracy: Representation
Education Law Survey
Federal Courts
Federal Sentencing
Federalism
Founders and Foes
History of American Federalism
History of the American Administrative State
International Arbitration
Law and Inequality
Colloquium
Law and Riots
Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation
Law, Inequality and Education Reform
Legislation
Legislation and Regulation
Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election
Monetary Constitution Seminar
Monument Litigation
Native American Law
Organizational DEI Programs
Pain and the Law
Parental Choice in K-12 Education
Perspectives on Sovereignty - Native American Law
Practical Perspectives on Policing: Fair and Effective Policymaking by Law Enforcement
Privacy
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Professor Charles Barzun (434) 924-6454
cbarzun@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/conlaw
Several centers at the Law School connect to topics relating to legal and constitutional history, and also serve as hubs for faculty scholarship and intellectual life for their respective fields.
❱ The Karsh Center for Law and Democracy promotes civil discourse, civil engagement, ethics and integrity in public office, and respect for the rule of law.
❱ The Center for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties focuses on issues at the intersection of the equal protection clause, civil rights statutes, the First Amendment and more.
❱ The Center for Criminal Justice explores paths for reform via faculty efforts and features robust clinical and curricular opportunities.
❱ The Center for the Study of Race and Law helps students fully understand the American legal landscape by promoting events and scholarship exploring the impact of race.
Several clinical courses offer students experience litigating constitutional questions.
❱ Appellate Litigation Clinic Students appeal actual cases in various state and federal appellate courts.
❱ Civil Rights Clinic Students provide legal support to people and communities harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights.
❱ First Amendment Clinic Students gain practical legal experience involving timely free-speech and press issues.
❱ Project for Informed Reform Students collaborate with outside organizations to produce research and data supporting criminal justice reform proposals.
❱ Supreme Court Litigation Clinic Students handle actual cases, from petitioning for Supreme Court review to briefing on the merits.
Privacy Law and Theory Seminar
Privacy Torts
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies
Public Law Colloquium
Race, Education and Opportunity
Racial Justice and Law
Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar
Regulation of the Political Process
Regulatory Law and Policy
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights
Religious Freedom: Current Challenges
Reproductive Rights and Justice
School Desegregation, School Integration
SCOTUS: Opacity and Privilege
Second Amendment and Gun Violence Colloquium
Separation of Powers in the Federal Courts Seminar
State Attorneys General
State Constitutionalism
Supreme Court Justices and the Art of Judging
Supreme Court: October Term
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History
The Executive Branch: Comparative and Political Aspects
The Great Writ
The January 6th Investigation and How Courts Can Shape Congress’ Power to Investigate
The Institutional Supreme Court
The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel
The Right to Protest
Appellate Litigation Clinic
First Amendment Clinic
Project for Informed Reform Clinic
State and Local Government Policy Clinic
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
An understanding of criminal justice is fundamental to any lawyer’s education.
At the University of Virginia, the nation’s leading criminal law faculty offer an in-depth array of courses on all aspects of criminal justice, including the substantive criteria of guilt or innocence and the procedures used in the arrest, prosecution and punishment of offenders.
Through the school’s Center for Criminal Justice, faculty engage with research exploring how to make a more just society. Virginia students do not study criminal law only from a distance. They also enroll in clinics that offer hands-on involvement in juvenile justice, criminal prosecution or defense, and post-conviction innocence cases. The Law School
supplements its curriculum with a wide range of extracurricular activities dedicated to criminal law, including a journal devoted to criminal law and an active Innocence Project. Collectively, these experiences lead Virginia
graduates to coveted positions in the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program, in U.S. attorneys’ offices, and in district attorney and defense offices across the country.
Cannabis Legalization
Computer Crime Law
Criminal
Adjudication
Criminal Investigation
Criminal Law
Colloquium
Criminal Procedure Survey
Criminology
Crimmigration
Law: Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law
Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice
Education Inside U.S. Prisons
Seminar
Evolution of Holistic Defense
Federal Criminal Law
Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice
Federal Sentencing
Forensic Psychology in Criminal Proceedings
Global Business and International Corruption
Law and Inequality Colloquium
Law and Public Service
Law of Corruption
Law of the Police
I: Rules, Rights and Regulation
New Research in Criminal Justice
Plea Bargaining
Political Prisoners
Practical Perspectives on Policing: Fair and Effective Policymaking by Law Enforcement
Public Law
Colloquium
Race and Criminal Justice
Rethinking
Criminal Justice
Second Amendment and Gun
Violence Colloquium
The Great Writ
Advanced Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic
Criminal Defense Clinic
Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic
Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy Clinic
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic
Innocence
Project Clinic
Project for Informed Reform Clinic
Prosecution Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Students provide relief and legal support to individuals and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights.
The semester-long Criminal Defense Clinic allows students to represent defendants in criminal cases in local courts under the direct supervision of an experienced local criminal defense attorney.
This clinic works to stop the cycle of incarceration by helping formerly incarcerated people resolve the collateral consequences of arrests and convictions, and by creating sustainable and effective reforms in their communities.
Students work directly with clients to file motions in federal District Courts to reduce client sentences, including post-release supervision.
Students represent clients on delinquency, school discipline and special education matters to help keep youth in their homes, schools and communities with appropriate support.
Students in this yearlong clinic investigate potential wrongful convictions in Virginia. Some of the cases have forensic evidence (usually DNA)
that could potentially be tested, and some are non-DNA cases.
Students collaborate with outside organizations to produce research and reliable data supporting criminal justice reform proposals.
In this yearlong clinic, students work with prosecutors to try cases in local jurisdictions.
This student-edited journal—one of only a handful at leading law schools focused on criminal law—also sponsors legal symposia and conferences.
This pro bono student organization monitors local domestic violence cases and assists local prosecutors by interviewing victims of domestic violence.
In the pro bono counterpart to the for-credit clinic, students volunteer their time to evaluate innocence claims by prisoners in Virginia and assess the appropriate avenues of legal relief.
This student organization sponsors speaking events, pro bono experiences and educational opportunities regarding correctional practices and policy.
❱ Professor Darryl Brown, a former public defender, is the author of “Free Market Criminal Justice: How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law,” which focuses on how the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by faith in free markets and the political process.
❱ Professor Deirdre M. Enright, who launched and directed the Innocence Project at UVA Law, recently kicked off a new clinic, the Project for Informed Reform.
❱ Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Adjudication, and Race and Law, among other courses. His scholarship focuses on equal protection, especially involving race and sexual orientation.
❱ Professor Thomas Frampton, who has been cited multiple times by the U.S. Supreme Court, is an expert in criminal law and criminal procedure and a former public defender. His work focuses on mass incarceration and other issues that touch on race and social position.
❱ A former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, Professor Rachel Harmon’s work examines policing and its regulation. She directs the Law School’s Center for Criminal Justice alongside Professor Deirdre M. Enright
❱ Professor Megan T. Stevenson is an economist and criminal justice scholar who conducts empirical research in areas such as bail, algorithmic risk assessment, misdemeanors, sentencing and juvenile justice.
Schools provide a place where children learn and grow, and they are also a place where social tensions and legal rights converge.
Within the field of education law, issues related to poverty, race, equity, discrimination, the rights of youth, juvenile justice, due process, freedom of speech and religion, privacy and family law intersect.
As parents and educators strive to offer children access to a high-quality education, laws and lawyers provide essential rules and guidance that can serve as a foundation for—or a hindrance to—a high-quality education.
Launched in 2023, the school’s Education Rights Institute aims to expand opportunities for U.S. students to enjoy a high-quality education that empowers them to be engaged civic participants who are college- and career-ready. The institute focuses on producing scholarship and commentary that stimulates and engages public debate about how to advance equal educational opportunity; amplifies research about educational opportunity gaps and their impact, and the role of federal and state laws and programs that can aid in closing those gaps; and helps
school districts expand their capacity to implement existing federal laws that support a high-quality education, particularly Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson directs the institute.
❱ Professor Alice Abrokwa previously served as senior counsel in the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education and as a senior attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, where she engaged in impact litigation.
❱ Professor Gerard Robinson’s areas of expertise are K-12 and higher education, criminal justice reform, race in American institutions and the role of nonprofit organizations in civil society.
Child Advocacy Research and Education
❱ Professor Andrew Block previously served as director of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice and led efforts to safely reduce the population of youth in state-operated juvenile correction centers.
❱ Professor Joy Milligan studies the intersection of law and inequality, with a particular focus on racebased economic inequality.
CONTACT
EDUCATION LAW
Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson (434) 924-3181
krobinson@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/education
Children and the Law
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law Civil Rights Litigation
Education Inside U.S. Prisons Seminar
Education Law Survey
Law, Inequality and Education Reform
Parental Choice in K-12 Education
Race, Education and Opportunity School Desegregation, School Integration
CLINICS
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic
State and Local Government Policy Clinic Youth Advocacy Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Local Education Policy Project
This pro bono project, directed by Professor Katie Ryan in partnership with the School of Education and Human Development, provides policy research support for school-level education leaders.
CARE brings together law students interested in taking a legal approach to issues affecting children, including education, juvenile justice, foster care and immigration. Through partnerships with local and national children’s law and advocacy organizations and CARE-generated projects, members assist in the direct representation of children and strive for broader systemic change through policy research and advocacy.
The Program in Law, Communities and the Environment, or PLACE, supports environmental events and activities at the Law School.
Environmental challenges are rarely simple. From climate change to local conservation, the challenges of sustainability and long-term environmental health raise complex scientific, ethical, economic and political questions that defy easy answers.
PLACE at UVA empowers students to confront these questions so they can build the practical skills, analytic tools and hands-on experience needed to effect change as environmental leaders in government, business and the nonprofit sector.
The program combines outstanding legal teaching with opportunities for interdisciplinary study, clinical
experience and scholarly inquiry.
Interacting with faculty who research and shape the law at the local, regional and global levels, students at UVA Law experience environmental law as it is practiced today, and study how it can better meet the next generation of challenges.
The Law School’s support for learning opportunities in environmental and land use law goes deeper than course offerings.
Over the past dozen years, the Law School has sponsored national conferences on growth management, nature conservation, environmental contracting, revitalization of contaminated land, transboundary watershed management and climate change. Law students help plan these conferences, and edit and publish the papers that emerge from them.
Founded in 1979 and managed and edited by students, the journal is a leader in environmental legal scholarship.
This popular and active student group hosts speakers and networking events, and sponsors
law students who participate in environmental moot court and negotiation competitions. The forum, in cooperation with the Law School’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center, also provides pro bono opportunities to students interested in environmental law.
❱ Students in the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic, led by Professor Cale Jaffe, recently worked on issues related to clean energy, climate policy and the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
❱ Professor Michael A. Livermore is the co-author of the book “Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health” and leads the podcast “Free Range with Mike Livermore,” featuring discussions with experts on environmental issues.
❱ Professor Richard C. Schragger writes on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, federalism, urban policy, and the constitutional and economic status of cities. He is the author of the book “City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age.”
❱ Professor Alison Gocke has expertise in environmental and energy issues from both the scientific and legal perspectives. She has written on the regulation of the U.S. electricity grid and the history of interstate natural gas pipelines.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND USE LAW
Professor Cale Jaffe (434) 924-4776
cjaffe@law.virginia.edu
Professor Alison Gocke (434) 243-8545
agocke@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/place
Climate and Debt
Climate Change Law
Climate Law and Climate
Ethics
Conservation Planning and Law
Contemporary Housing Policy Debates
Energy and Environmental Products
Trading and Commodities
Regulation
Energy Regulation and Policy
Environmental Law
Historic Preservation Law
Housing Law and Poverty Seminar
International Environmental Law
Land Use Law Law of Public-Private Partnerships
Monument Litigation
Natural Resources Law and Policy
Students may receive Law School credit for related graduate courses offered by other University departments and schools, including classes on topics such as preservation planning, land use policy, ecology, climatology and business-government relations. Students can obtain joint degrees in law and land use planning, business or environmental sciences.
Students in the clinic represent environmental nonprofits, citizens’ groups and other community organizations seeking to protect and restore the environment of Virginia and other parts of the country. The clinic works closely with lawyers at the Southern Environmental Law Center, a preeminent environmental public interest law firm headquartered in Charlottesville.
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies
Public Utility Regulation Seminar
Rise of ESG in Corporate Law and Governance
State and Local Government Law
Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation Urban Law and Policy
Wine and the Law
CLINICS
Advanced Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic
Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic
Housing Litigation Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Students participate in a range of activities on environmental matters. They comment on administrative rules, participate in permitting proceedings, advocate before state administrative agencies and boards, and contribute to factual investigations and litigation.
UVA’s Family Law Center creates opportunities to cultivate and exchange premier family law scholarship on these topics through lectures and symposia.
FAMILY LAW raises questions of social justice with profound personal significance: Who is a parent? Who can marry? What are the rights of nonmarital couples? Who can get an abortion?
Legal regulation of family life can set the financial terms of divorce, determine a person’s immigration status, or remove a child from the home for abuse or neglect.
In exploring family law’s practical and policy issues at Virginia, students benefit from outstanding law school classroom teaching combined with clinical experience, skills training, scholarly inquiry and interdisciplinary collaboration. Family law faculty are involved in research and policy work that profoundly affects
the law at the local, regional and global levels, and students have the opportunity to become involved in those activities as well.
UVA Law faculty bring their distinctive insights to complex issues such as: how should the law intervene in adult intimate relationships; how should the law regulate markets for
assisted reproductive technology; how should states reform the juvenile justice systems to strengthen children and families; who should qualify as a family member in wealth transfer law; and how should the law respond to family-based vulnerabilities at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, religion and age?
The student group Women of Color is among those connecting to family law issues.
❱ Professor Naomi Cahn is an expert in family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence, reproductive technology, and aging and the law. She is a co-author of casebooks in both family law and trusts and estates, and she has written numerous articles exploring the intersections among family law, trusts and estates, and feminist theory, as well as essays concerning the connections between gender issues and international law.
through a number of student organizations, including:
❱ Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law
❱ Advocates for Life at Virginia Law
❱ Child Advocacy Research and Education Domestic Violence Project
❱ If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice at UVA Law
❱ Lambda Law Alliance
❱ Virginia Law Families
❱ Virginia Law Women
❱ Women of Color Meet the Family Law Center Directors
❱ Professor Gregg Strauss’ research interests lie at the intersection of family law, jurisprudence and political philosophy, and he serves as director of the Family Law Center. He writes about the limits of legitimate law in situations of fundamental disagreement, with an emphasis on familial relationships. His latest articles argue that the law has a legitimate reason for regulating adult relationships through marriage.
Professor Naomi Cahn (434) 924-4709 ncahn@law.virginia.edu
Professor Gregg Strauss (434) 243-1819
greggstrauss@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/family
Students work on cases that have potential to provide real and concrete relief to people and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights. Students provide direct representation to clients and participate in impact advocacy, including federal litigation, legal support for community education and organizing, administrative advocacy, and legislative and policy advocacy.
This clinic provides students an opportunity to practice holistic and zealous lawyering by representing juvenile clients on delinquency, school discipline and special education matters, to help keep youth in their homes, schools and communities with appropriate supports. Law students handle cases from the initial intake to the case disposition and subsequent appeal.
After Dobbs Children and the Law
Comparative Gender Equality
Education Law Survey
Estate Planning: Principles and Practice
Family Law
Feminism and the Free Market
Feminist Jurisprudence
International and Comparative Family Law
Medicalization and the Law
Parental Choice in K-12 Education
Practical Trust and Estate Administration
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Ethics and Law
Offered in partnership with the Legal Aid Justice Center, this yearlong clinic teaches and develops trial skills using housing law as the substantive vehicle, and qualified students also appear and argue in local courts under the direction of a clinic supervisor. The caseload includes trials, administrative proceedings and interaction with low-income clients. Students handle eviction cases, rent escrow cases, abatement of substandard building conditions and other enforcement of residents’ rights.
In the yearlong clinic, students represent low-income children in the context of education and the justice system. The clinic is focused on addressing the legal needs of Virginia’s low-income children and youth, both through individual client representation and broader reform efforts such as local and state policy advocacy, impact litigation and community education.
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Sexuality and the Law
Single People and the Law
Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts
Trusts and Estates
CLINICS
Civil RIghts Clinic
Holistic Youth Defense Clinic
Housing Litigation Clinic
Youth Advocacy Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Students benefit from viewing the regulatory context through the eyes of physicians, inventors, health care administrators and experts from a variety of fields.
The distinguishing feature of the Law School’s Program In Health Law is its collaboration with the University’s School of Medicine and its Medical Center, which is consistently ranked among the nation’s top hospitals.
At Virginia, law students can study health law in the clinical setting, interacting with medical students and physicians from all medical specialties, including pediatrics, neurology, internal medicine and psychiatry.
Law faculty teach in the School of Medicine, and Medical School professors teach Law School classes. This collaboration extends to health policy experts in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the Darden School of Business, and the Schools of Architecture, Arts & Sciences, Engineering and Nursing.
This interdisciplinary approach is further borne out through institutes and centers at UVA that allow students to study and work on pressing issues in health care, biotechnology, research, genetics and moral philosophy:
❱ Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy ❱ Virginia Center for Translational and Regulatory Sciences
❱ Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life ❱ Center for Biomedical Ethics ❱ Center for Health Policy ❱ Center for Global Health
for
❱ Students in the Human
Study Project—including
In conjunction with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, the Law School offers a dual degree in public health. Students have access to graduate courses in health policy and management, health economics, ethics, global health, social and behavioral health, environmental health and research methodology. Instituted in 2003, the M.P.H. program offers concentrations in generalist practice and research, health policy, and law and ethics, and includes field placement options in global health, health policy and public health sites. The program takes four years to complete and requires a minimum of 116 credits.
Designed to educate the next generation of health leaders, the J.D.-M.D. program allows students to complete law and medical degrees in six years, instead of the seven years normally required if the degrees were pursued separately. Students spend the first three years and the summer of year five in classes at the School of Medicine, and years four and five at the Law School. In the final year, one semester is spent in each school. Students are required to secure admission separately to the School of Medicine and UVA Law.
Students in the yearlong clinic help represent mentally ill and elderly clients in negotiations, administrative hearings and court proceedings. The legal matters may involve civil rights, mental health care in jails and prisons, disability benefits claims, access to health or rehabilitative services, creating wills and other testamentary documents, and advance directives.
Students may apply for funding from the Law School’s health law fellowship program to work in a variety of settings. Students have worked for employers such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Law Program, and the Food and Drug Administration.
HEALTH LAW
Professor Margaret Foster Riley (434) 924-4671 mimiriley@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/health
Alice Abrokwa disability law, health law and antidiscrimination law
Naomi Cahn reproductive technologies, aging and the law
Deborah Hellman bioethics
Craig Konnoth health and civil rights, LGBT health law and bioethics
Kimberly D. Krawiec taboo markets (such as organs, commercial surrogacy)
Julia Mahoney reproductive technologies
Gregory Mitchell law and psychology
John Monahan mental health law
Margaret Foster Riley bioethics, biotechnology, food and drug law, health law
Ruth Gaare Bernheim public health, bioethics
Donna Chen psychiatry and bioethics
Bruce Cohen psychiatry
Dewey Cornell psychology
Rebecca Dillingham global health
Carolyn Engelhard health policy
Richard L. Guerrant infectious diseases
Drew Harris medical-legal partnerships
Robert J. Meyer food and drug law, regulatory science
Daniel Murrie psychiatry
Lois Shepherd disability law, health law and bioethics
Janet Warren psychiatry
Cameron Webb health law and equity
❱ Professor Alice Abrokwa, a former attorney with the U.S. Education and Justice departments, is an expert on disability, health and mental health, antidiscrimination law and impact litigation.
❱ Professor Craig Konnoth, a 2024 Greenwall Faculty Scholar, teaches and writes about issues related to health and civil rights, health data regulation, and health law and sexuality.
has written and presented extensively about health care law, biomedical research, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cell research, animal biotechnology, health disparities and chronic disease.
After Dobbs
Bioethics And Law Internship
Seminar: Health Policy and Administration
Bioethics and the Law Seminar
Biotechnology and the Law
Cannabis Legalization
Current Topics in Law, Medicine and Society
Disability Law
Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar
Drug Product Liability
Litigation: Principles and Practice
Food and Drug Law
Food Systems Law and Policy
Forensic Psychology in Criminal Proceedings
Genetics and the Law
Genetics and the Law: Exercises in Rule-Making
Health Care
Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform
Health Law Survey
Law and Ethics of Biotechnology Law and the Social Determinants of Health
Medicalization and the Law
Mental Health Law
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Ethics and Law
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Ten-Year Checkup of the Affordable Care Act
Health and Disability Law Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
The protection of human rights is intrinsically linked to global
As people move across borders due to conflict, economic disparities or environmental challenges, the intersection of human rights and immigration law becomes more complex.
The responses to migration—shaped by political polarization, the rise of authoritarianism and lack of political will—often present challenges to safeguarding fundamental rights.
The Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program allows students to engage with these intersections and also explore the full range of opportunities available in the human rights and immigration fields, at home and abroad, through hands-on experiences and events.
Courses and extracurricular opportunities allow students to learn about the key legal and public policy issues involved in immigration and human rights, including international legal enforcement for human rights, political asylum, the impact of immigration on the economy and on national security, the role of nations and the challenges of building an effective immigration management system.
While the program directly serves students pursuing careers in immigration and human rights, it also enriches students in various legal fields by exploring connections to criminal, business, family and administrative law, as well as public policy, offering all students a more comprehensive legal perspective.
The program maintains a network of recent graduates involved in human rights law. Current and recent employers include:
❱ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
❱ Canadian Centre for International Justice
❱ Center for Constitutional Rights
❱ Center for National Security Studies
❱ EarthRights International
❱ Freedom House
❱ Council for Global Equality
❱ Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal
❱ Harvard Law School Human Rights Clinic
❱ SECTION27
❱ U.S. Senate Judiciary and Armed Services committees
❱ U.N. Office of Legal Affairs
❱ Human Rights Study Project members traveled abroad to study human rights in India during winter break in January 2020. Other teams have conducted field missions to Egypt, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Syria and Lebanon, China, India, Uganda, Cambodia,
UVA Law faculty mentor students on fellowship and career opportunities. The faculty, many of whom have worked abroad, also offer a significant networking resource for those interested in human rights work. Students working in the field have access to summer grants of $5,000 (first year) and $8,000 (second year) from the student-run Public Interest Law Association.
Border Policy and Politics
Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties
Crimmigration: Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law
Human Rights Study Project
Immigration Law and Policy
International Human Rights Law Law and Inequality Colloquium
Law and Public Service Law of Armed Conflict
Political Prisoners
Race, Education and Opportunity
U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar
Immigration Law Clinic
International Human Rights Law Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
❱ Siarra Rogers ’19 and R. Cooper Vaughan ’17 meet with a worker during a visit through the Migrant Farmworker Project. The project, which began in the early 1980s, provides students experience in field investigation and immigration law, helps them practice their Spanish and counts toward their Pro Bono Challenge hours.
Outside of the classroom, the Immigration Law Program provides students with numerous hands-on learning experiences.
Run by the Latin American Law Organization student group, the Migrant Farmworker Project works with the Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy Program to assist this isolated population. The program represents immigrants and farmworkers throughout the state. Although the center handles mostly employment law cases, it also takes housing and discrimination cases. Students visit migrant farm labor camps and educate workers about their rights. The project also seeks to increase awareness about the
substandard treatment and living conditions of Virginia’s immigrant workers. Students do not need to speak Spanish to participate.
UVA Law is home to one of 29 student IRAP chapters that assist refugees and displaced people on urgent resettlement cases, visa applications and family reunifications.
Students gain experience in immigration issues through a pro bono project sponsored by the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville.
The project’s mission is to further the study of law affecting the protection of basic rights in foreign countries. Each year, a project team of students and a professor travel abroad to research human rights issues in a specific country and report their findings. Participating students receive course credit.
The Law School has successfully placed several candidates in the ICJ’s Judicial Fellows Program. When a candidate is selected, the UVA Law International Law Fellowship provides a stipend of $50,000 to assist with travel, living expenses and health insurance.
❱ Professor Kevin Cope’s research in immigration and other topics investigates legal and political decisionmaking using empirical, comparative and formal theoretical methods.
❱ Professor Amanda Frost, an expert in immigration and citizenship law, is the author of the book “You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping From Dred Scott to the Dreamers.” Her scholarship has been cited by over a dozen federal and state courts, and she has testified before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
CONTACT
IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Professor Kevin Cope (434) 924-4492
kcope@law.virginia.edu
Professor Amanda Frost (434) 924-7573 afrost@law.virginia.edu
Professor Camilo Sánchez (434) 924-7304 csanchez@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/humanrights
The International Human Rights Law Clinic is the core of the program. The clinic offers students practical experience in human rights advocacy in collaboration with human rights lawyers and nongovernmental organizations in the United States and abroad.
CLINIC STUDENTS have worked on projects in the following areas:
Reparations for slavery and other historical injustices
Deprivation of migrants’ liberty
Gender equality and sports
Protecting human-rights advocates
Impact of air pollution on human rights
Access to health care in Venezuela
National security in the war on terror
Freedom of information and expression
Gender-based violence, women’s and LGBT rights
Rights of indigenous people
Legal literacy and empowerment
Right to life and prohibition against torture
Human rights in the Middle East
Corporate liability for human rights violations
Land law and housing rights
Protecting human rights during transitional justice
THE CLINIC has partnered with the following organizations:
U.N. Committee on Migrant Workers and Their Families
American Bar Association Human Rights Center, Washington, D.C.
Due Process of Law Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society, Colombia
Center for Economic and Social Rights, New York
Center for Reproductive Rights, New York
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Clinic students are responsible for individual immigration cases that range in complexity and urgency.
All students are tasked with investigating their cases, maintaining contact with their clients, briefing their cases and potentially representing their clients in immigration court. The clinic focuses on complicated cases for humanitarian relief, removal defense and impact cases arising out of emerging areas of the law.
Being a good intellectual property lawyer requires adaptability in a dynamic field and an understanding of the realities of producing intellectual works.
Intellectual property law tries to balance the incentive to create with society’s interest in spreading the benefits of innovation.
Virginia’s IP program combines a broad array of courses, hands-on clinics and professors focused on the real-world applications of their scholarship, offering students a unique foundation for exploring these challenges.
❱ Professor Edmund W. Kitch is the author of “The Nature and Function of the Patent System,” which has been recognized in academic literature as one of the most important and famous modern articles on patent law.
❱ Professor Thomas B. Nachbar, a leading scholar on the constitutional basis for intellectual property rights, also researches the nature of regulation, including the regulation of telecommunications, internet governance and antitrust law.
AI and IP
Antitrust in the Digital Economy Art Law
Biotechnology and the Law
Computer Crime Law
Copyright Law
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice
Internet Law
❱ In addition to her groundbreaking work on cyberstalking and intimate privacy, Professor Danielle K. Citron has been a leading thinker on how the laws governing social media, including copyright law, affect privacy rights.
❱ An internationally recognized legal theorist, Professor Lawrence B. Solum has worked on problems of law and technology, including artificial intelligence, internet governance, copyright policy and patent law.
Israeli Business Law and Innovation
Law and Artificial Intelligence Law and Technology Colloquium Law of Artificial Intelligence
Music Law: Analytical and Client Management Skills
Patent Law
Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark Trade Secret Law
❱ In the field of intellectual property, Professor John F. Duffy has been identified as one of the 25 most influential people in the nation by The American Lawyer and one of the 50 most influential people in the world by the U.K. publication Managing Intellectual Property.
Law, Innovation, Security & Technology
LIST events focus on the novel legal, policy and business problems in emerging technologies, including international cybersecurity issues.
Virginia Journal of Law & Technology
VJOLT provides a forum for students, professors and practitioners to discuss emerging issues at the intersection of law and technology.
Trademark Law
Transactional Intellectual Property Law
CLINICS
Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
Patent and Licensing Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Virginia Law Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Club
ECVC is dedicated to supporting entrepreneurial initiatives across Grounds, connecting law students with students from other schools, and serving as a hub for those interested in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial law.
Professor John F. Duffy (434) 243-8544
jfduffy@law.virginia.edu
Professor Elizabeth A. Rowe (434) 924-3834
erowe@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/ip
Run in conjunction with the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, two patent and licensing clinics offer hands-on experience as students learn how and when to file patents and draft licensing agreements, deal with clients in the science and technology fields, and research and write about cutting-edge patent topics. The first clinic focuses on practical training in patent drafting as well as the negotiation and drafting of patent and software license agreements.
Clinic participants may:
❱ evaluate inventions and computer software for patentability and commercial value
❱ counsel UVA faculty inventors on patentability, inventorship and the patenting process
❱ deal with patent examiners and research current issues in IP and technology transfer
❱ prepare, file and prosecute provisional U.S. patent applications
In the advanced clinic, students work exclusively with patent attorneys drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications; alternatively, they may work exclusively with licensing agents to draft license agreements, negotiate terms and conditions, and prepare confidentiality agreements and marketing documents.
A wide range of course offerings and Virginia’s faculty—prominent in areas such as international business, international human rights, environmental policy, comparative constitutional law and immigration law—make UVA’s international and national security law program one of the strongest in the nation.
Foreign professors come to the Law School to teach seminars on topics such as European Union law and comparative law, and students may take select courses at the neighboring Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School.
Courses and mentoring opportunities through the center allow students to study the most pressing issues in national security law and to explore the wide range of career opportunities available in the field.
The curriculum features foundational constitutional and statutory law courses along with classes that address new challenges stemming from technologies, terrorism and geopolitical changes. The center is the hub for national security law research, scholarship and events at the Law School.
Each year, project members travel abroad to study and report on human rights issues in a country of their choosing. Teams have traveled to Colombia, Myanmar, Egypt, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, China and more.
Students may spend a semester abroad in a supervised setting combining academic legal research and work experience. Past projects have examined judicial reform
With a faculty adept at quantitative research methods and experienced in government and other public service roles, the center offers students a range of perspectives in international and comparative law. Courses cover topics in international trade and finance, human rights and immigration, the law governing war and use of force, environmental law, international litigation and arbitration, and comparative constitutional law.
John Bassett Moore Society of International
The J.B. Moore Society is a driving force in international law activities at the Law School. Each year the society organizes a symposium and other events, and sponsors the Jessup International Law Moot Court team.
LIST events focus on the novel legal, policy and business problems in emerging technologies, including international cybersecurity issues.
in Argentina and the strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Virginia offers external collaborative programs in public international law with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
The forum connects students with national security law and broader government issues by hosting speakers, keeping students apprised of career opportunities and facilitating student work on national security problems.
Founded in 1960, VJIL is the oldest continuously published, student-edited law review in the United States devoted exclusively to the fields of public and private international law.
This organization supports student members of the military community and serves as an information resource for national security or international law and policy issues.
Second- and third-year students have access to 12 international exchange programs:
❱ Bocconi Law School, Italy
❱ Bucerius Law School, Germany
❱ Hebrew University, Israel
❱ Instituto de Empresa, Spain
❱ Jindal Global Law School, India
❱ Melbourne Law School, Australia
❱ Seoul National University, South Korea
❱ Tel Aviv University Law School, Israel
❱ University of Auckland, New Zealand
❱ University of Sydney, Australia
❱ Waseda University, Japan
Third-year students may also obtain a dual degree from Sciences Po (Paris).
Students completing the program will receive a J.D. from the Law School and a French law degree, entitling them to sit for the French bar exam.
Students also may initiate their own study-abroad program at a foreign university law school or law department for one semester.
Each
UVA
Admiralty
An American Half-Century Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment
Chinese Law
Climate Change Law
Comparative
Constitutional Law
Comparative
Freedom of Speech Law Seminar
Comparative Gender Equality
Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions
Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice
European Union Law
Foreign Relations Law
French Public and Private Law
Geopolitics, Law and the World
Economy
Global Business and International Corruption
Global Contracting: A Case Study
Global Legal History
Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution
Governing the World Seminar
International and Comparative Family Law
International Arbitration
International Business Negotiation
International Business Transactions
International Civil Litigation
International Debt
Transactions
International Environmental Law
International Human Rights Law
International Law
International Law and the Use of Force
International Settlement of Disputes: Methods and Forums
International Tax Practicum
International Taxation
International Trade Law and Policy
Israeli Business Law and Innovation
Jewish Law
Jurisprudence: From the Bible to the Rabbis
Judicial Opinions
Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief
Introduction
Legal Theory Workshop Seminar
Native American Law
Negotiating a Joint Venture in China
Personal Data Protection in Europe
Perspectives on Soveignty - Native American Law
Political Prisoners
Seminar in Ethical Values
Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics
War by Other
Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions
CLINIC
International Human Rights Law Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
❱ An expert in international law, national security, intelligence and the laws of war, Professor Ashley Deeks has served in roles in the State Department and at the White House. She directs the National Security Law Center.
❱ Professor Thomas B. Nachbar is an expert on regulation as well as national security and serves as a judge advocate in the U.S. Army Reserve. He recently led a course in which students helped the Pentagon tackle emerging national security challenges.
❱ Professor Kristen Eichensehr teaches and writes about cybersecurity, foreign relations, international law and national security law, and the constitutional allocation of powers between the president and Congress in foreign relations.
❱ Professor John Setear primarily teaches courses in international law, including international environmental law and counterfactual diplomatic history.
❱ Professor Mitu Gulati is one of the world’s leading experts on sovereign debt restructuring and helping countries in financial distress.
❱ Neil Noronha ’26, Daniel Elliott ’24, captain Claudia Frykberg ’25, Jessica Williams ’25 and Daisy Johnston ’26 advanced to the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 2024.
❱ An internationally recognized expert in the comparative study of public law and courts, Professor David S. Law is a pioneer in the application of empirical social science methods to the study of legal texts and a regional expert on Asia.
❱ A preeminent international law scholar with particular expertise in Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems, Professor Paul B. Stephan is the author of “The World Crisis and International Law.” He directs the Center for International & Comparative Law.
❱ An expert in public international law, Professor Pierre-Hugues Verdier is the author of “Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance.”
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Professor Paul B. Stephan (434) 924-7098 pbs@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/international
NATIONAL SECURITY LAW
Professor Ashley Deeks (434) 243-2166 adeeks@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/nationalsecurity
Admiralty
Advanced Crimes and Defenses (JAG)
Advanced Topics in Professional Responsibility (JAG)
Advanced Topics in the Law of Armed Conflict (JAG)
Border Policy and Politics
Challenges in Military Justice
Critical Analysis of the Military Justice System (JAG)
Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp
Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Digital Evidence from Theory to Practice (JAG)
Economic Statecraft and Public
International Law
Foreign Relations Law
Government Secrecy
History and Evolution of Victims’ Rights (JAG)
Immigration Law and Policy
Innovating for Defense
International Human Rights (JAG)
International Law and the Use of Force
Introduction to Legal Aspects of Cyberspace Operations (JAG) Law of Armed Conflict
Law of Sea, Air and Space Operations (JAG)
National Security Law
National Security Law Proseminar I (JAG)
National Security Law Proseminar II (JAG)
Personal Data Protection in Europe
Rights of the Accused (JAG)
Special Topics in Client Services (JAG)
The Economic Tools of National Security
Veteran Benefits and Retirement Planning (JAG)
War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions
War Crimes and Atrocity Law (JAG)
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Students and scholars at the University of Virginia study the foundation and functions of democracy, the structures that uphold it and the practices that help it flourish.
Through special events, research, and courses and clinics with experts in the field, students engage deeply with the law to understand the unique culture, innovation and ideas that fuel and preserve America’s government.
The Karsh Center for Law and Democracy is a nonpartisan legal organization at UVA Law School. The Karsh Center’s mission is to promote understanding and appreciation of the principles and practices necessary for a wellfunctioning, pluralistic democracy, including civil discourse and democratic dialogue, civic engagement and citizenship, ethics and integrity in public office, and respect for the rule of law. The center supports these essential features of our democratic life through rigorous and cutting-edge legal and interdisciplinary scholarship and programming.
❱ Threats to Liberal Democracy: Affective Polarization, Populism and Inequality in the United States
❱ The Politics of Presidential Indictments, With Professors Cynthia Nicoletti and Frederick Schauer
❱ The Role of Statutory Principles in Reconciling LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Freedom
❱ A Conversation With Justice Anthony Kennedy, With David Rubenstein
❱ The Charlottesville Trial: An Overview of Sines v. Kessler
❱ UVA Democracy Biennial: Crises, Opportunities, Freedoms
❱ Can the President Pardon Himself?
❱ Payvand Ahdout focuses on modern uses of judicial power through the lens of federal courts, and recently won the Yale Law Journal’s inaugural Emerging Scholar of the Year Award.
❱ Michael D. Gilbert teaches and writes about election law, legislation, and law and economics, as well as misinformation and corruption.
❱ Kimberly Jenkins Robinson leads the Center for the Study of Race and Law and the Education Rights Institute. She is an expert on how federal and state law and policy can close educational opportunity gaps.
❱ Aditya Bamzai teaches administrative law, civil procedure, computer crime and conflicts of law. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
❱ Craig Konnoth explores issues of health and civil rights, and health data, in his scholarship. His work looks broadly at minority and marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ+ community.
Bertrall Ross writes and teaches on democratic responsiveness and accountability, as well as the inclusion of marginalized communities in administrative and political processes.
❱ Joy Milligan studies the intersection of law and inequality, with a particular focus on racebased economic inequality, and federal officials’ long-term role in extending racial segregation.
and constitutional law.
❱ Eugene R. Fidell is one of the nation’s leading experts on military law. He served as a judge advocate in the U.S. Coast Guard and has represented personnel in every branch of the armed forces.
❱ Retired Judge J. Michael Luttig ’81 served on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1991-2006, having been appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and in other federal government roles at the Justice Department and White House.
❱ Linda Greenhouse teaches The Institutional Supreme Court. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law.
❱ Robert S. Mueller III ’73 was the nation’s sixth FBI director, transforming the agency in the wake of Sept. 11. In 2017, Mueller was appointed special counsel to oversee the investigation of Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and related matters.
After Dobbs
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law
Civil Rights
Litigation
Civil War and the Constitution
❱ Chinh Q. Le ’00 is a visiting professor of practice at the Law School. From 2011 to 2021, he served as legal director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
❱ Now a partner at WilmerHale, Aaron Zebley ’96 served as the deputy special counsel under Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III for the duration of the office’s investigation.
❱ UVA Law and the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy recently hosted the Annual Law and Religion Roundtable, led in part by Professor Micah Schwartzman. The two-day symposium brings together an international group of ideologically diverse scholars to discuss works in progress and emerging issues involving religious freedom.
Comparative
Constitutional Law
Comparative Freedom of Speech Law Seminar
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Religion
Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press
Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties
Designing Democracy: Participation
Designing Democracy: Representation
Disability Law
Education Law Survey
Law and Riots
Law of Corruption
Law, Inequality and Education Reform
Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation
Legislative Drafting and Public Policy Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election
Monument Litigation
Pain and the Law
Political Prisoners
Poverty Law and the Lawyer’s Role
Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy
Pretrial Litigation
Skills: Civil Rights
Privacy Torts
Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar
Race, Education and Opportunity
Racial Justice and Law
Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar
Regulation of the Political Process
Rule of Law and Its Threats
Second Amendment and Gun Violence
Colloquium
State and Local Government Law
State Attorneys General
The Constititution, Democracy and U.S. History
Civil Rights Clinic
First Amendment Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Civil
Students provide relief and legal support to individuals and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights.
First Amendment Clinic
In conjunction with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, students undertake projects protecting First Amendment rights.
The Designing Democracy Project aims to train the next generation of democracy innovators. Participating students serving as fellows are involved in two projects: studying the voter participation gap between higher-income and lower-income Americans to advance policy solutions to close the gap, and studying the state of democratic representation in the U.S. to advance policy solutions to remedy present deficiencies within such representation.
LAW
Professor Bertrall Ross (434) 924-7305 bross@law.virginia.edu
Professor Micah Schwartzman (434) 924-7848 schwartzman@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/karsh
Common Law Grounds is a student-faculty group that encourages discussion and debate among students and faculty across the ideological spectrum, with the goal of identifying and articulating areas of agreement about core values and practices, isolating points of substantive disagreement while also looking for common ground, and fostering a culture of open and civil dialogue about legal and political issues.
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is a national organization of law students, law professors, practicing lawyers and others.
The society aims to help revitalize and transform the legal debate, restoring the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice to their rightful—and traditionally central— place in American law.
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies promotes awareness and application of the following principles: that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to the U.S. Constitution and that it is the duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
Criminal law punishes people for wronging others, but what conduct is wrong exactly, and do current criminal laws prohibit only such conduct?
Civil rights law prohibits discrimination, but what kinds of differential treatment are morally troubling and why? Constitutional law offers special protection for freedom of speech and religion, but why are speech and religion special? Coursework and faculty at Virginia are engaging with these questions every day.
for Law & Philosophy
Questions of legal philosophy are not merely academic.
Moral and philosophical assumptions structure current law and bear on pressing questions of social justice. The Virginia faculty associated with the Center for Law & Philosophy investigate these questions. The center also facilitates exceptional scholarship through its Legal Theory Workshop and occasional symposia.
❱ Professor Frederick Schauer is a world-renowned expert in the areas of constitutional law, evidence, legal reasoning, freedom of speech, and jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. He won the 2023 Scribes Book Award for “The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else.”
LAW & PHILOSOPHY
Professor Deborah Hellman (434) 243-9123
dhellman@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/philosophy
❱ Professor Charles Barzun focuses on constitutional law, torts, evidence and the history of legal thought.
❱ Professor Rachel Bayefsky’s work addresses both the practical workings of legal institutions and underlying philosophical ideas such as dignity and equality.
❱ Professor Deborah Hellman studies equal protection law and its philosophical justification, and the relationship between money and legal rights.
❱ Professor Richard M. Re’s blog, “Re’s Judicata,” considers questions of Supreme Court jurisprudence. His research and teaching interests are in criminal procedure, federal courts and constitutional law.
❱ Professor Micah J. Schwartzman focuses on law and religion, jurisprudence, political philosophy and constitutional law.
❱ Professor Lawrence B. Solum is an internationally recognized legal theorist who works in constitutional theory, procedure and the philosophy of law.
Bioethics and the Law Seminar
Climate Law and Climate Ethics
Contract Theory
Critical Race Theory
Dignity Law Seminar
Discrimination Theory
Feminist Jurisprudence
Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance
Interpretation Theory and Methods
Law and Literature: Storytelling Law and Theories of Justice
Law, Literature and Social Policy Seminar
Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief Introduction
Liberalism and Conservatism
Liberalism and Its Critics
Mindfulness and Legal Practice
Neoliberalism
Pain and the Law
Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture
Sports and Games
Voice and Silence in Law and Literature Seminar
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Technology touches our everyday lives, including our laws and policies.
The LawTech Center focuses on pressing questions in law and technology, including policy concerns, data analysis of legal texts and the use of technology in the legal profession.
VIRGINIA’S PROGRAMS AND CENTERS in national security, law and business, health law and intellectual property add further depth to related course offerings and extracurricular opportunities.
The curriculum also benefits from the school’s proximity to the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, which offers courses connected to cybersecurity and national security.
❱ Kashmir Hill discusses her book “Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It,” with Professor Danielle Citron during a LawTech Center talk in 2024.
SERVING AS A LOCUS OF FACULTY RESEARCH, THE LAWTECH CENTER is led by the second-most cited professor in the nation on issues of law and technology, Danielle K. Citron, and intellectual property and trade secret expert Elizabeth A. Rowe
❱ Citron, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” fellowship recipient, writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights. She is the author of the books “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace” and “The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age.”
AI and IP
Antitrust in the Digital Economy
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Biotechnology and the Law
Computer Crime Law
Cryptocurrency Law and Policy
Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp
Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice
Emerging AI Legal Issues
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
Financing: Principles and Practice
Food and Drug Law
Genetics and the Law
Genetics and the Law: Exercises in Rule-Making
Innovating for Defense
Internet Law
Law and Artificial Intelligence Law and Ethics of Biotechnology
Law and Technology Colloquium
❱ Rowe, who is co-author of the first and leading U.S. casebook on trade secrets in addition to a “Nutshell” treatise on trade secrets, has written on the intersection of trade secrets with employment law and technology, as well as the interplay between intellectual property, government policy and innovation.
Law of Artificial Intelligence
LawTech
Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look
National Security Law
Patent Law
Privacy
Privacy Law and Theory Seminar
Repugnant Transactions
Science and the Courts
Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark
Taboo Trades
Trade Secret Law
Transactional
Intellectual Property Law
CLINICS
Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
Patent and Licensing Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Gabriele Josephs ’24, a LawTech Center Legal Fellow researching how online platforms play a role in understanding race, stumbled as a teen into pockets of the internet where racism was rampant.
“With the LawTech fellowship, I can now turn what I have learned about these fetid spaces— and what I have learned about how these people use race science— into formal research that tells a story about how online platforms are, to some extent, abetting these trends.”
❱ Professor Kristen Eichensehr writes and teaches about cybersecurity, foreign relations, international law and national security law, including cyberattacks.
❱ Professor Deborah Hellman, a legal theorist, has written on how “big data” can compound injustice.
❱ Professor Megan Stevenson is an economist who uses empirical research to explore criminal justice reform, including bail and algorithmic risk assessment.
❱ Professor Michael Livermore’s research focuses on environmental law, cost-benefit analysis and the application of data science techniques to legal texts.
❱ Professor Elizabeth Rowe’s research often addresses the intersection of trade secrets with employment law and technology. She is an expert on intellectual property and corporate espionage.
AND
Professor Danielle K. Citron (434) 982-2083
dcitron@law.virginia.edu
Professor Elizabeth A. Rowe (434) 924-3834
erowe@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/lawtech
The semester-long clinic, which offers an optional advanced course in a second semester, trains students in patent drafting as well as the negotiation and drafting of patent and software license agreements.
Students provide legal counseling and draft basic corporate documentation for startup companies run by UVA Darden graduate business students and other entrepreneurs.
Law, Innovation, Security & Technology
LIST events focus on the novel legal, policy and business problems in emerging technologies, including international cybersecurity issues.
National Security Law Forum
The forum connects students with national security law and broader government issues by hosting speakers, keeping students apprised of career opportunities and facilitating student work on national security problems.
VJOLT provides a forum for students, professors and practitioners to discuss emerging issues at the intersection of law and technology.
Legal history has long been a curricular priority at the Law School and a strength of its faculty.
UVA’s curriculum places the development of the law in historical context so that students can better understand both the past and present legal landscape.
With 20 scholars in the Law School and 15 scholars in the Corcoran Department of History all teaching or doing work in legal history, UVA offers an unparalleled variety of lecture courses, seminars and clinics in the field.
The heart of the program is the J.D.-M.A. Program in Legal History, which enables law students to earn an M.A. in history during the same three years they are earning their J.D. As part of the program, J.D.-M.A. candidates present drafts of their theses to faculty. Several veterans of the combination-degree program have gone on to successful careers in legal academia, and recent graduates have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justices.
UVA is an international leader in opening global legal history to serious study worldwide. The Law School’s Legal History Program is affiliated with GLH@UVA, a cross-disciplinary enterprise focusing on global legal history based in UVA’s Corcoran Department of History. GLH@ UVA aims to broaden awareness of the history of legal life around the globe.
Kenneth S. Abraham history of torts, insurance law
Charles Barzun history of legal thought
Michael G. Collins legal history, procedure, federal courts
Thomas Frampton historical context of criminal law, inequality
Alison Gocke environmental legal history
Risa Goluboff legal history of civil rights
John C. Harrison constitutional history
Leslie Kendrick torts and freedom of speech
Edmund W. Kitch legal and economic history
Jessica Lowe 18th- and 19th-century American legal history
Julia D. Mahoney property and constitutional law
Joy Milligan law and inequality
Caleb E. Nelson federal courts, statutory interpretation
Cynthia L. Nicoletti American legal history
Saikrishna B. Prakash separation of powers, presidential power
George Rutherglen civil rights history, admiralty
Lawrence B. Solum constitutional originalism, legal theory
Richard Schragger local government, property, church and state
G. Edward White American legal history, Supreme Court, history of torts
Fahad Bishara economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world
Emily Burrill 20th-century West African history, history of gender and sexuality in the French empire
Indrani Chatterjee history of South Asia
Christa Dierksheide early American history, with an emphasis on empire, race and slavery
Paul D. Halliday (with law joint appointment) British legal history
Justene Hill Edwards African American history, American economic history, history of American slavery
Andrew Kahrl social, political and environmental history of land use, real estate and racial inequality
S. Deborah Kang history of U.S. immigration
Christian W. McMillen history of pandemics
Elizabeth A. Meyer
Greek and Roman political and social history
Sarah Milov 20th-century American history
Neeti Nair 18th-20th century South Asian history
Brian P. Owensby 19th- and 20th-century Brazil, legal/ imperial history of 17th-century Mexico
Jeffrey Rossman Russia, modern Europe
Joshua M. White early modern Ottoman Empire, Mediterranean social, legal and diplomatic history
American Legal History Seminar
An American Half-Century Civil War and the Constitution
Constitutional Law II: Poverty
English Legal History to 1776
Federalism
Founders and Foes
Global Legal History
History of American Federalism
History of the American Administrative State
Jewish Law
Jurisprudence: From the Bible to the Rabbis Law in American History: 20th Century
Monetary Constitution Seminar
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies
Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds
Roman Law
School
Desegregation, School Integration
Supreme Court
Justices and the Art of Judging
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History
The Great Writ
The Institutional Supreme Court
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Lawyers working with public institutions must understand the complex relationship between law and public policy to be effective at shaping it.
Virginia’s public policy and regulatory law focus draws its strength from faculty members who bring to the classroom their experiences working for government or other institutions. These connections benefit students in a variety of ways.
The Law School’s proximity to Washington, D.C., provides rich opportunities for a close-up view of how regulations, policies and the government interact. The location also allows top government lawyers and Washington-based practitioners to teach part-time at Virginia, which exposes students to the concrete issues they may one day face as government officials, practicing lawyers or
policy advocates.
Virginia’s alumni connect the school and students to Washington and other public policy networks. The Law School’s graduates work for the White House, Congress, the Justice Department, the military and numerous federal agencies.
❱ law.virginia.edu/uvalawalumni
As part of the State and Local Government Policy Clinic, Kara Hafermalz ’23 was among students who helped state lawmakers develop the Virginia Literacy Act—bipartisan legislation to ground literacy instruction in science-based reading research. The legislation passed the General Assembly unanimously and was recently signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Administrative Law
Advanced Administrative Law
Advanced Crimes and Defenses (JAG)
Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service
Advanced Topics in Professional Responsibility (JAG)
Advanced Topics in the Law of Armed Conflict (JAG)
Advancing the Commitment to Service Through Law Firm Pro Bono
Animal Law
Antitrust
Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
Banking and Financial Institutions
Baseball
Bioethics and Law
Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration
Bioethics and the Law Seminar
Biotechnology and the Law
Blood Feud
Border Policy and Politics
Business and Governmental Tort Liability
Cannabis Legalization
Children and the Law
Civil Rights Litigation
Climate and Debt
Climate Change Law
Climate Law and Climate Ethics
Constitutional Law and Economics
Cryptocurrency Law and Policy
Cybersecurity and Privacy Boot Camp
Designing Democracy: Participation
Designing Democracy: Representation
Digital Evidence from Theory to Practice (JAG)
Economic Statecraft and Public
International Law
Education Inside U.S. Prisons Seminar
Education Law Survey
Emerging AI Legal Issues
Employee
Benefits Law
Employment Law: Health and Safety
Employment Law: Wage and Hour
Regulation
Energy and Environmental Products
Trading and Commodities Regulation
Energy Regulation and Policy
Environmental Law
European Union Law
Federal Income Tax
Federal Regulation of Investment
Companies
Feminism and the Free Market
Food and Drug Law
Food Systems Law and Policy
Genetics and the Law
Genetics and the Law: Exercises in Rulemaking
Geopolitics, Law and the World Economy
Government Contract Law
Immigration Law and Policy
Innovating for Defense
International Human Rights (JAG)
International Settlement of Disputes: Methods and Forums
International Trade Law and Policy
Internet Law
Introduction to Legal Aspects of Cyberspace
Operations (JAG)
Land Use Law
Law and Artificial Intelligence
Law and Economics
Law and Economics
Colloquium
Law and Economics
Workshop
Law and Inequality Writing Seminar
Law and Leadership in the Public Interest Law and Public Service
Law and Riots
Law and Technology Colloquium
Law of Corruption
Law of Sea, Air and Space Operations (JAG)
Law of the Police
I: Rules, Rights and Regulation
Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar
Law, Inequality and Education Reform
Law, Literature and Social Policy Seminar
Legislation
Legislation and Regulation
Legislative Drafting and Public Policy
National Security
Law Proseminar
I and II (JAG)
Native American Law
Natural Resources Law and Policy
New Research in Criminal Justice
Pain and the Law
Parental Choice in K-12 Education
Philosophical Legal Ethics
Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture
Poverty Law and the Lawyer’s Role
Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy
Practical Perspectives on Policing: Fair and Effective Policymaking by Law Enforcement
Privacy
Privacy Law and Theory Seminar
Property, the Police Power and Emergencies
Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills
Public Law Colloquium
Public Utility Regulation Seminar
Race, Education and Opportunity
Race, Meritocracy and Justice on Campus
Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar
Regulation of the Political Process
Regulatory Law and Policy
Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights
Reparations: Identity, Law and Politics
Social Identity, Critical Theory and the Law
Special Topics in Client Services (JAG)
Stakeholderism and Business Law
State and Local Government Law
State Attorneys General
Taboo Trades
Ten-Year Checkup of the Affordable Care Act
The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation
The Executive Branch: Comparative and Political Aspects
The January 6th Investigation and How Courts Can Shape Congress’ Power to Investigate
The Right to Protest
Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation
Topics in Banking and Financial Regulation
Urban Law and Policy
U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar
Veteran Benefits and Retirement Planning (JAG)
War Crimes and Atrocity Law (JAG)
CLINICS
Advanced Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic
Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic
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Contemporary Challenges in Military Justice
Contemporary Housing Policy Debates
Corporate Social Responsibility Seminar
Crimmigration Law: Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law
Critical Analysis of the Military Justice System (JAG)
Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice
Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance
Government Secrecy
Health Care
Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform
History and Evolution of Victims’ Rights (JAG)
Housing Law and Poverty Seminar
Immigration Law and Policy
Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election Litigation and Public Policy
Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law
Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits
Medicalization and the Law
Monetary Constitution Seminar
Monument Litigation
Reproductive Ethics and Law
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Rights of the Accused (JAG)
Rules
Second Amendment and Gun Violence Colloquium
Securities Regulation
Securities Regulation (Law & Business)
Single People and the Law
Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic
Housing Litigation Clinic
Immigration Law Clinic
Nonprofit Clinic
State and Local Government Policy Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Antonella Nicholas ’23 co-authored a paper with Professor Andrew Block identifying the systemic causes behind some of the problems facing rural Virginia. The article inspired state legislation to establish a cabinet secretary for rural affairs.
As part of Block’s State and Local Government Policy Clinic, Nicholas worked with clinic client Del. Carrie Coyner to increase funding for a health department in the westernmost regions of the state.
“That experience opened my eyes to some of the challenges rural counties face,” Nicholas said. “Living in a rural area makes everything harder on almost every level—less access to broadband, geographic isolation, rural residents are on
average lower-income, they have less education, and their economy has been decimated for several reasons. So I was thinking about those questions last year, and Andy asked me if I’d be interested in being his research assistant this year working on these issues for a paper he was asked to write.”
The two presented their paper, “Those Who Need the Most, Get the Least,” at the University of Richmond Law Review symposium “Overlooked America: Addressing Legal Issues Facing Rural United States.”
Both the Virginia House and Senate sponsored bills during the 2024 session establishing a rural affairs secretary and will consider them again in 2024.
❱ Professor Bertrall Ross leads a student lab that is exploring the use of vouchers and other incentive systems to increase outreach to low-income voters. The lab, Designing Democracy: Participation, is sponsored by UVA Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, which Ross co-directs.
❱ The author of “Wasting a Crisis,” Professor Paul G. Mahoney has weighed in on fixing problems associated with Dodd-Frank legislation and the rush to regulate following financial crises.
❱ Before turning to academia, Professor Ashley S. Deeks served as the assistant legal adviser for politicalmilitary affairs in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser and as an embassy legal adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION
Professor Aditya Bamzai (434) 243-0698 abamzai@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/publicpolicy
The Law School offers a dual-degree program with the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, in which a student may obtain both a J.D. and a Master of Public Policy degree (M.P.P.) in four years instead of five. Students who have been admitted to the program may elect to start in the Law School or the Batten School.
Virginia’s professors have extensive experience in public policy through government posts, as consultants and as volunteers. Still others have worked for NGOs and advocacy organizations focused on shaping public policy. Examples of current and past work include:
Alice Abrokwa senior counsel, Education Department Office for Civil Rights; senior attorney, National Center for Youth Law; trial attorney, Disability Rights Section, Justice Department Civil Rights Division
Barbara Armacost attorney-adviser, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel
Aditya Bamzai member, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; attorney-adviser, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel
Ashley S. Deeks
White House associate counsel and deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council
Michael Doran attorney, Office of Tax Policy, Treasury Department
John F. Duffy member, Administrative Conference of the United States; attorney-adviser, Justice Department
Kristen Eichensehr special assistant, State Department Office of the Legal Adviser
Amanda Frost staff attorney, Public Citizen; worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee
Rachel Harmon senior policy adviser for Criminal Justice, White House Domestic Policy Council; trial attorney, Justice Department
John C. Harrison counselor on international law, State Department; deputy assistant attorney general, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel
Edwin Hu senior economic policymaker, White House National Economic Council; chief economist, SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Cale Jaffe director, Virginia office, Southern Environmental Law Center
Chinh Q. Le legal director, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Michael A. Livermore member, Administrative Conference of the United States; executive director, Institute for Policy Integrity
Paul G. Mahoney member, Securities and Exchange Commission Investor Advisory Committee
John Monahan member, Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research
Council; member, Institute of Medicine
Thomas B. Nachbar judge advocate, U.S. Army Reserve; senior adviser, Department of Defense, Office of Rule of Law and Detainee Policy
Richard M. Re attorney, Criminal Appellate Section, Justice Department
Bertrall Ross member, Administrative Conference of the United States; member, Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court
Elizabeth A. Rowe member, Leadership Council, The Sedona Conference
Katie Homer Ryan deputy counsel, U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee; various roles in policy on children and the law
A. Sprightley Ryan inspector general, Smithsonian Institution
Molly Bishop Shadel attorney-adviser, Justice Department Office of Intelligence Policy and Review
Paul B. Stephan counselor on international law, State Department; consultant to Treasury Department, IMF, World Bank and OECD
Lawyers cannot fully understand the American legal landscape without studying the impact of race.
The Law School founded the CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RACE AND LAW in 2003 to provide opportunities for students, scholars, practitioners and community members to examine and exchange ideas related to race and law through lectures, symposia and scholarship.
The center also coordinates with the Law School to offer a concentration of courses on race and law, and serves as a resource for faculty whose teaching or scholarship addresses subjects related to race.
❱ As part of UVA’s Community MLK Celebration, John Charles Thomas ’75, the youngest and first Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court of Virginia, spoke at the Law School about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
VIRGINIA offers courses in civil rights and anti-discrimination law, along with a wide array of courses in constitutional law and history. These offerings reflect the ways in which the struggle for civil rights shaped—and continues to shape— our country and institutions.
brings a visiting professor to teach a short course each year.
Past visitors include:
Ralph Richard Banks, Stanford Law School
Khiara M. Bridges, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Michael J. Klarman, Harvard Law School
Mari Matsuda, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law
Juan F. Perea, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Camille Gear Rich, USC Gould School of Law
American Legal History Seminar
Asian Americans and the Law
Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law
Civil Rights Litigation
Civil War and the Constitution
Constitutional Law II: Poverty
Criminal Adjudication
Criminal Investigation
Criminal Procedure Survey
Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice
Designing
Democracy: Participation
Designing
Democracy: Representation
Education Law Survey
Employment Discrimination
Housing Law and Poverty Seminar
Immigration Law and Policy
International Human Rights Law
Land Use Law
Law and Inequality Colloquium
Law and Inequality
Writing Seminar Law and the Social Determinants of Health Law of the Police
I: Rules, Rights and Regulation Law, Inequality and Education Reform
Monument Litigation
Native American Law
Parental
Choice in K-12
Education Perspectives on Sovereignty - Native American Law
Poverty Law and the Lawyer’s Role Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy
Race and Criminal Justice
Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds
Race, Class and Democratic Legitimacy
Race, Education and Opportunity
Race, Law and School Policing Race, Meritocracy and Justice on Campus
Racial Justice and Law
Reparations: Identity, Law and Politics
Reproductive Rights and Justice
School Desegregation, School Integration
The Constitution, Democracy and U.S. History
CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic
Project for Informed Reform Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
Christopher Williams, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, has been named a research assistant professor and a Race, Place and Equity Fellow.
Williams, who already holds a J.D. and M.A., earned his Ph.D. in sociology during his fellowship. His dissertation, “Finding Fairness in Abolition: The Elimination of Cash Bail in Illinois,” explores how Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to eliminate the use of cash bail in its pretrial system.
“I’m charting the history through the stories of the activists, the organizers, the impacted people, the legislators—they’re saying, ‘This is what we did, this how we did it, this is what it felt like, this is what it looked like when we were riding on buses to go downstate to talk to the legislators when all this
racial upheaval was going on in 2020, and this is how we got it across the finish line,’” Williams said. “I’m also analyzing the law, and the implications of what it means—for communities of color and everyone in Illinois—to eliminate cash bail.”
Consistently ranked one of the top law schools for tax, UVA Law prepares students for tax careers in government, private practice, business and the nonprofit sector.
Among the nation’s top scholars, the school’s tax faculty are known for converting students who are fearful of studying tax into fans of the field.
They bring experience from Congress, the Treasury Department and private practice. In addition to their scholarly endeavors, the faculty remain engaged with practice organizations such as the American Bar Association Tax Section, the American Law Institute, Congress, the Treasury Department and the IRS.
Virginia’s alumni practice tax in a variety of settings. They hold leadership positions in top law and accounting firms, smaller firms specializing in tax, all branches of government and the nonprofit sector. Alumni have joined academia, launched firms focused on tax law, managed the taxes of corporations like Exxon Mobil and Amazon, served in the U.S. Office of the Legislative Counsel, and held leadership positions at the IRS, including as commissioner.
❱ Professor Andrew Hayashi is an expert in tax law, tax policy and behavioral law and economics whose recent work has looked at how certain property tax schemes disproportionately benefit white homebuyers in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.
Founded in 1980, the Virginia Tax Review is the nation’s leading student-edited tax journal. The publication focuses primarily on federal and international taxation, as well as pure business legal issues.
Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements
Legalization
❱ Professor Michael Doran, a former partner at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C., who practiced federal tax and federal pension law, served twice in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department. His recent research has revealed how reforms to retirement plans have largely benefited the wealthy.
Faculty, students and alumni learn about cutting-edge issues in tax from the Virginia Tax Study Group meeting at the Law School, an annual tradition that brings together alumni from practice, government and academia. In the fall, the annual UVA Invitational Tax Conference brings leading tax academics to Grounds to discuss scholarly works in progress. Through the online Oxford-Virginia Legal Dialogs series, scholars build bridges across academic disciplines through a workshop in which both tax and non-tax scholars explore recent research. Students are invited to attend all three event series. During the summer, the Law School hosts the Virginia Conference on Federal Taxation, an annual conference that marked its 75th anniversary in 2023.
Organi-
Principles and Practice
Seminar
Treaties and Other
Tax Topics
Trusts and Estates
CLINIC
Nonprofit Clinic
These courses represent the 2022-25 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.
In 2018, UVA became the first U.S. team ever to win the International and European Tax Moot Court competition, and has won three times in the past six years.
Each year, up to four students participate in the International Tax Practicum, a yearlong skills course that uses mock tax treaty litigation as a lens for studying issues in international tax law.
As part of this course, students compete in the International and European Moot Court Competition against teams from all over the
world. If the UVA team’s briefs are strong enough, the team travels to Belgium to compete in the oral phase of the competition against
teams from other schools. The weeklong competition features lectures by prominent tax professors and judges, as well as a trip to the
European Union’s Commission in Brussels.
VIRGINIA enjoys a reputation for producing lawyers who master the intellectual challenges of legal practice, and also contribute broadly to the institutions they join through strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
AS A RESULT, private- and public-sector employers heavily recruit Virginia students each year. Graduates start their careers across the country with large and small law firms, government agencies and public interest groups.
VIRGINIA LAW’S CAREER PLACEMENT SUCCESS
#1 in the percentage of Class of 2023 graduates (97.2%) in full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar passage, according to American Bar Association data.
#1 in Above the Law’s 2024 law school rankings, which focus on employment outcomes.
#2 in the percentage of 2023 graduates who went directly to firms of 500 or more attorneys or to federal clerkships, according to ABA data (based on full-time, long-term jobs).
#5 in placing clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court from 2007-2023.
#3 in the number of chief legal officers at the nation’s top 500 companies, according to a survey by Chambers Associate.
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Virginia has graduates in all 100 of the American Lawyer top 100 firms (as of June 2024).
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DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM at UVA
HOMETOWN: Güines, Cuba, and Naples,
EDUCATION: Florida State University, international affairs and political science
NEXT: Reed Smith, Washington, D.C.
“I was a judicial intern for Judge Hannah M. Lauck in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia during 1L summer. It was fun to watch proceedings in court and make lifelong connections with the clerks and cointerns. It helped me understand the work of opinionwriting and what it means to be a woman on the bench.”
❱ After graduation, Adam Younger ’23 joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York as an assistant district attorney.
ALASKA
ANCHORAGE
Alaska Department of Administration, Office of Public Advocacy
ARIZONA
PHOENIX
Husch Blackwell
CALIFORNIA
COSTA MESA
Latham & Watkins
COTATI
Animal Legal Defense Fund
IRVINE
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
LOS ANGELES
Allen Matkins
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Jones Day
Latham & Watkins
Massumi + Consoli
McGuireWoods
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings
Proskauer Rose
Sullivan & Cromwell
Martinez
Contra Costa Public
Defender’s Office
MENLO PARK
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Hogan Lovells US
Latham & Watkins
O’Melveny & Myers
OAKLAND
National Center for Youth Law
ORANGE COUNTY
Snell & Wilmer
PACIFICA
Pacific Juvenile
Defender Center
PALO ALTO
Cooley
Jones Day
Paul Hastings
Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
REDWOOD CITY
Goodwin
SALINAS
Noland Hamerly
Etienne & Hoss
SAN CARLOS
Justice At Last
SAN DIEGO
Cooley
Fish & Richardson
Latham & Watkins
San Diego Office of the City Attorney
U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of the General Counsel
SAN FRANCISCO
Baker Botts
Beveridge & Diamond
Covington & Burling
Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California
Goodwin
Gunderson Dettmer
Stough Villeneuve
Franklin & Hachigian
Hogan Lovells US
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Morrison & Foerster
O’Melveny & Myers
Paul Weiss Rifkind
Wharton & Garrison
Peregrine
Technologies
Quinn Emanuel
Urquhart & Sullivan
Ropes & Gray
Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
SANTA MONICA
Bryan Cave
Leighton Paisner
COLORADO
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Public Defender
DENVER
Colorado State
Public Defender
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Hogan Lovells US
Holland & Hart
CONNECTICUT
DANBURY
Chipman Mazzucco
Emerson
HARTFORD
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
DELAWARE
MIDDLETOWN
Self-Employed (Technology Startup)
WILMINGTON
Abrams & Bayliss
Richards, Layton & Finger
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WASHINGTON
Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld
Arnold & Porter
Baker Botts
BakerHostetler
Baker McKenzie
Bracewell
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Cooley
Covington & Burling
Cozen O’Connor
Crowell & Moring
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dechert
Dentons US
DLA Piper
Everytown for Gun Safety
Faegre Drinker
Biddle & Reath
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin
Groom Law Group
Hogan Lovells US Hollingsworth
Hudson Institute
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Internal Revenue Service
Ivins, Phillips & Barker
Jones Day
Kelley Drye & Warren
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Klein Hornig
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Milbank
Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Morrison & Foerster
Norton Rose Fulbright
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
O’Melveny & Myers
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman
Polsinelli
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville
Proskauer Rose
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
Reno & Cavanaugh
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
A&O Shearman
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Squire Patton Boggs
Steptoe & Johnson
Sterne Kessler
Sullivan & Cromwell
Troutman Pepper
Hamilton Sanders
U.S. Air Force
Judge Advocate
General’s Corps
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division
U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division
U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Democratic Staff
U.S. Senate, Judiciary Committee
Venable
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Wiley Rein
Williams & Connolly
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
Winston & Strawn
FLORIDA
JACKSONVILLE
AndersonGlenn
Fisher, Tousey, Leas & Ball
MIAMI
Bilzin Sumberg Baena
Price & Axelrod
Jones Day
White & Case
ORLANDO
BakerHostetler
Tallahassee
Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Florida, Capital Habeas Unit
GEORGIA
ATLANTA
Alston & Bird
Arnall Golden
Gregory
BakerHostetler
Bryan Cave
Leighton Paisner
Jones Day
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Morris, Manning & Martin
National Labor Relations Board
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Slutzky, Wolfe & Bailey
Troutman Pepper
Hamilton Sanders
IDAHO
BOISE
Parsons Behle & Latimer
ILLINOIS
CHICAGO
Baker McKenzie
Ice Miller
Jenner & Block
Kirkland & Ellis
Lawyers’ Committee
for Better Housing Legal Council for Health Justice
Sidley Austin
Winston & Strawn
INDIANA
INDIANAPOLIS
Barnes & Thornburg
LAFAYETTE
Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office
RICHMOND
Dudas Law
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE
Frost Brown Todd
MARYLAND
ANNAPOLIS
Maryland Office of the Public Defender
BALTIMORE
Maryland Office of the Public Defender
SILVER SPRING
Ayuda
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
MASSACHUSETTS
BOSTON Center for Law and Education
Choate Hall & Stewart
Eckert
Seamans
Cherin & Mellott
Foley Hoag
Goodwin
Jones Day
Kirkland & Ellis
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Ropes & Gray
WilmerHale
LAWRENCE Northeast Legal Aid Inc.
MICHIGAN
FARMINGTON HILLS
Antone, Casagrande & Adwers
MINNESOTA
SAINT PAUL
Larson King
NEW JERSEY
HACKENSACK
Cole Schotz
NEWARK
Education Law Center
TRENTON
New Jersey Attorney General
NEW YORK
ARMONK
Boies Schiller Flexner
BRONX
Bronx Defenders
BROOKLYN
Housing Works Inc.
BUFFALO
Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc.
HEMPSTEAD
Legal Aid Society of Nassau County
KEW GARDENS
Queens District Attorney’s Office
NEW YORK
Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld
Allen & Overy
Bryan Cave
Leighton Paisner
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance US Conway, Farrell, Curtin & Kelly
Cooley
Covington & Burling
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dechert
Dentons US Desmarais
Fried Frank Harris
Shriver & Jacobson
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin
Jones Day
Kaplan Hecker & Fink
Kasowitz Benson
Torres King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Kostelanetz & Fink
Kramer Levin
Naftalis & Frankel
Latham & Watkins
Legal Aid Society of New York City, Juvenile Rights Division
Linklaters
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Milbank
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
New York County District Attorney’s Office
New York Legal Assistance Group
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings
Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman
Proskauer Rose
Reed Smith
Ropes & Gray
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Selendy Gay
Seward & Kissel
A&O Shearman
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
The Brown Firm
Troutman Pepper
Hamilton Sanders
Vinson & Elkins
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch
WHITE PLAINS
Legal Aid Society of Westchester County
NORTH CAROLINA
CHARLOTTE
Alston & Bird
Bradley Arant Boult
Cummings
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
King & Spalding
McGuireWoods
Mecklenburg
County Public Defender’s Office
Moore & Van Allen
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy
RALEIGH
Manning, Fulton & Skinner
McGuireWoods
Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan
Wyrick, Robbins, Yates & Ponton
WILMINGTON
Legal Aid of North Carolina
OHIO
CINCINNATI
J. P. Ashbrook
Taft
Stettinius & Hollister
CLEVELAND
Jones Day
COLUMBUS
Jones Day
Squire Patton Boggs
PENNSYLVANIA
NORRISTOWN
Montgomery
County District Attorney’s Office
PHILADELPHIA
Ballard Spahr
Cozen O’Connor
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
PITTSBURGH
Allegheny County Office of the Public Defender
Jones Day
K&L Gates
McKinsey & Co.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Reed Smith
WARRINGTON
Fox Rothschild
TENNESSEE
MEMPHIS
Shelby County
District Attorney General’s Office
NASHVILLE
Bass, Berry & Sims
Nashville District Attorney’s Office
Office of the Metropolitan Nashville
Public Defender
TEXAS
AUSTIN
DLA Piper
Husch Blackwell
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
DALLAS
Baker Botts
Baker McKenzie
Bradley Arant Boult
Cummings
Haynes and Boone
Holland & Knight
Hunton Andrews
Kurth
Jackson Walker
Jones Day
Katten Muchin
Rosenman
Kirkland & Ellis
McKool Smith
Norton Rose
Fulbright
Perkins Coie
A&O Shearman
Sidley Austin
Vinson & Elkins
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
HOUSTON
Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing
Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld
Arnold & Itkin
Baker Botts
BakerHostetler
Bracewell
DLA Piper
Hicks Johnson
Hogan Lovells US
Jones Day
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Norton Rose
Fulbright
A&O Shearman
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Vinson & Elkins
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
MERCEDES
Texas RioGrande
Legal Aid
UTAH
SALT LAKE CITY
Kirkland & Ellis
ST. GEORGE
Washington County Attorney’s Office
VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria Public Defender’s Office
ARLINGTON
Erickson Immigration Group
ASHLAND
U.S. Marine Corps
Judge Advocate Division
CHARLOTTESVILLE
Atelerix Life
Sciences Inc.
CharlottesvilleAlbemarle Public Defender’s Office
Cruz Law
McGuireWoods MichieHamlett
Raynor Law Office
FALLS CHURCH
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Office of the Chief
Administrative Hearing Officer
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals
FORT BELVOIR
U.S. Army Judge
Advocate
General’s Corps
FORT GREGORY ADAMS
U.S. Army Judge
Advocate
General’s Corps
MANASSAS
Prince William County Office of the Public Defender
MCLEAN
Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman
NORFOLK
U.S. Navy Judge
Advocate General’s Corps
Willcox & Savage
PORTSMOUTH
Portsmouth City
Public Defender’s Office
RICHMOND
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Legal Aid Justice Center, Civil Rights and Racial Justice Program
McGuireWoods
Richmond Public Defender’s Office
Troutman Pepper
Hamilton Sanders
ROANOKE
Woods Rogers
Vandeventer Black
TYSONS CORNER
Holland & Knight
Venable
BEACH
Virginia Beach
City Public Defender’s Office
WARRENTON
Ashwell & Ashwell
Warrenton Public Defender’s Office
WASHINGTON
SEATTLE
King County Department of Public Defense
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Civilian Honors Attorney
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor
Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
WEST VIRGINIA
HARPERS FERRY
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
WISCONSIN
MILWAUKEE Foley & Lardner
CHILE
FUTALEUFU Futaleufu
Riverkeeper
CHINA BEIJING
Davis Polk & Wardwell
ENGLAND
LONDON Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Withersworldwide
The Office of Private Practice, the Office of Judicial Clerkships and the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center offer the tools and preparation students need to advance in the legal workforce.
COUNSELING STUDENTS on job-search strategies, from understanding which employers to target to planning longterm career goals
PREPARING AND TRAINING STUDENTS to have successful interviews, including through live or videotaped mock interviews, to assess weaknesses and strengths
REVIEWING AND CRITIQUING RESUMES, cover letters and other employment-related communications
SCHEDULING EVENTS throughout the school year that are designed to inform students about a variety of career paths and employment
options, best practices for interviews and internships, and how to advance one’s career after law school
HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND what kinds of careers they will find rewarding
TEACHING STUDENTS best networking practices
MAINTAINING AN ONLINE JOB DATABASE that also allows students to receive alerts about jobs in their chosen field or city
COORDINATING THE SCHOOL’S INVOLVEMENT in live and virtual career fairs and recruiting events across the country, in addition to UVA’s extensive interview programs.
DAVID C. LOWANCE
Senior Assistant Dean for Career Development
J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., Princeton University
David Lowance leads the Career Development Office and counsels students and alumni on general career choices. In addition to working with the leadership of the offices of Private Practice, Public Interest and Judicial Clerkships on all student placements, Lowance actively counsels within the Office of Private Practice, helping students launch their careers with law firms. Before joining the Law School, Lowance was a partner at the law firm Alston & Bird and then chief legal officer for Insight Global, an industry-leading staffing and professional services company. In his firm practice, Lowance handled a broad range of corporate matters. At Insight Global, he presided over all legal and compliance affairs, along with other corporate functions.
LAUREN PARKER
Assistant Dean for Private Practice
J.D., B.A., University of Virginia
Lauren Parker works with students and alumni interested in applying to law firm positions, and counsels LL.M. students seeking temporary or permanent employment after graduation. Parker previously was a senior associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe,
where her practice focused on complex commercial and antitrust litigation. Parker also worked with the ACLU of Maryland and with the Legal Counsel for the Elderly representing clients in diverse pro bono matters.
DANIEL JUSTUS
Director, Office of Private Practice
J.D., M.A., B.A., University of Virginia
Daniel Justus counsels students and alumni on a broad array of career choices, with a focus on law firm positions. Prior to joining the Office of Career Development, Justus was an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Clifford Chance US, where he practiced in the global financial markets group. In law school, he was a Peer Advisor, member of the Lambda Law Alliance, USAI-Szymanski Rule of Law Fellow, and an editorial board member and assistant production editor for the Virginia Tax Review. He is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Mandarin Chinese.
KIRA WALMER
Director, Office of Private Practice
J.D., University of Virginia B.A., Penn State University
Kira Walmer counsels students and alumni as they navigate their career paths and pursue law firm positions. After law school, she worked as an associate at Dickstein Shapiro, where she focused on government contracts litigation. Walmer then moved into the field of education, joining the founding team of a public charter school committed
to educational equity and college access for all students. She served in school leadership roles with an emphasis on teacher coaching and curriculum development, and handled talent and recruitment initiatives. During her time at the Law School, she was involved with the Libel Show, Public Interest Law Association and Peer Advisor program.
RUTH PAYNE
Assistant Dean for Judicial Clerkships
J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., Claremont McKenna College
Ruth Payne advises students and alumni as they navigate the application process for both judicial internships and judicial clerkships. This includes counseling, reviewing cover letters and resumes, conducting mock interviews and running workshops on the clerkship process. Payne was an articles editor on the Virginia Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III ’72 on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and completed a one-year Bristow Fellowship with the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office. From 2004-08, she was an honors attorney with the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.
Director of Judicial Clerkships
J.D., Stanford Law School
B.A., Trinity Western University
Kim Gilmer helps prepare students to apply for judicial
internships and clerkships. After law school, Gilmer clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III ’72 of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She has served as a staff attorney with a public interest organization, operated a solo practice law firm, and provided legal research and consultation to other firms and clients. Gilmer has international experience as a leader at Rosslyn Academy in Kenya, a faculty member and administrator at Pan Africa Christian University in Kenya, an adviser to graduate students at Trinity Western University in Canada and an adjunct law professor at Tianjin Foreign Studies University in China.
Assistant Dean for Public Service
Director, Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center
J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., University of Kansas
Ryan Faulconer leads the school’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. He previously was a federal prosecutor for 15 years, focusing on corruption, white-collar fraud and cybercrime. He was hired through the Attorney General’s Honors Program into the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. He subsequently worked as the public corruption coordinator and an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, a senior counsel with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of DOJ’s Criminal Division and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District of Virginia. Before joining DOJ, Faulconer clerked for Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia.
DAWN DAVISON
Director of Public Service
J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law
B.A., University of New Mexico
Dawn Davison was formerly a senior staff attorney with the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, where she represented inmates in their state and federal habeas corpus proceedings and clemency applications for more than 13 years. In 2017, she was awarded the Bill Geimer Award by her peers for being a dedicated capital defender. Davison also taught continuing legal education courses to capital practitioners. After law school, Davison clerked for U.S. Judge James P. Jones of the Western District of Virginia.
Director of Public Service
J.D., Northeastern University
B.A., Colgate University
Amanda Yale previously worked at Legal Services for Children in New York City, where she defended the rights of indigent disabled children in special education and Social Security disability benefits proceedings. After graduating from law school, she worked as a staff attorney at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She then clerked for Judge I. Leo Glasser of the Eastern District of New York.
KIMBERLY EMERY
Assistant Dean for Pro Bono and Public Interest
J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., Carleton College
Kimberly Emery has been the Law School’s assistant dean for pro bono since 2004 and was a founder and director of the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. Emery coordinates and administers pro bono programming for law students, counsels students and graduates regarding pro bono and public interest opportunities, develops and fundraises for new service projects, and oversees the Law School’s Pro Bono Challenge. Emery was a board member for the Legal Aid Justice Center for more than 15 years.
A. SPRIGHTLEY RYAN
Professor of Law, General Faculty Director of Externships
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Yale University
Sprightley Ryan counsels students seeking or engaging in externships and teaches a seminar in the UVA Law in DC externship program that helps participants make connections between legal theory and practice. She previously served as inspector general of the Smithsonian Institution, was a trial attorney for the Environmental Crimes Section of the U.S. Department of Justice and served as a special assistant U.S. attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Amy Coney Barrett
Neil M. Gorsuch
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Brett Kavanaugh
1ST CIRCUIT
BOSTON
Julie Rikelman
CONCORD, N.H.
Jeffrey R. Howard
2ND CIRCUIT
BURLINGTON, VT.
Beth Robinson
NEW YORK
Robert D. Sack
3RD CIRCUIT
DUNCANSVILLE, PA.
D. Brooks Smith
NEWARK, N.J.
Patty Schwartz
PHILADELPHIA
L. Felipe Restrepo
PITTSBURGH
Cindy K. Chung
Thomas M. Hardiman
Peter J. Phipps
David J. Porter
4TH CIRCUIT
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
Toby J. Heytens
Barbara Keenan
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Allison Jones Rushing
BALTIMORE
Paul V. Niemeyer
BETHESDA, MD.
Pamela Harris
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Albert Diaz
CHARLOTTESVILLE
J. Harvie Wilkinson III
COLUMBIA, S.C.
Julius N. Richardson
GREENVILLE, S.C.
A. Marvin
Quattlebaum
RICHMOND, VA.
Roger Gregory
SPARTANBURG, S.C.
Henry F. Floyd
5TH CIRCUIT
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Andrew S. Oldham
Don R. Willett
BATON ROUGE
Kyle Duncan
DALLAS
Catherina Haynes
Irma Ramirez
HOUSTON
Gregg J. Costa
Jennifer Walker Elrod
Edith Jones
Jerry E. Smith
JACKSON, MISS.
Leslie H. Southwick
NEW ORLEANS
Edith Brown Clement
SAN ANTONIO
Patrick Higginbothom
SHREVEPORT, LA.
Carl E. Stewart
6TH CIRCUIT
ANN ARBOR, MICH.
Raymond M.
Kethledge
Joan L. Larsen
CINCINNATI
John B. Nalbandian
CLEVELAND
Karen Nelson Moore
COLUMBUS, OHIO
Chad A. Readler
Jeffrey S. Sutton
COVINGTON, KY.
Amul Thapar
DETROIT
Eric L. Clay
Helene N. White
LOUISVILLE, KY.
John K. Bush
MEMPHIS, TENN.
Julia Smith Gibbons
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Jane Branstetter
Stranch
7TH CIRCUIT
HAMMOND, IND.
Thomas Kirsch
SOUTH BEND, IND.
Kenneth F. Ripple
8TH CIRCUIT
MINNEAPOLIS
David R. Stras
9TH CIRCUIT
IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO
Ryan D. Nelson
PASADENA, CALIF.
Daniel P. Collins
PHOENIX
Bridget S. Bade
PORTLAND, ORE.
Susan P. Graber
SAN DIEGO
Patrick J. Bumatay
SAN FRANCISCO
Daniel A. Bress
10TH CIRCUIT
CHEYENNE, WYO.
Gregory A. Phillips
DENVER
Alison H. Eid
ROSWELL, N.M.
Bobby R. Baldock
11TH CIRCUIT
ATLANTA
Elizabeth L. Branch
Britt Grant
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Andrew L. Brasher
William H. Pryor Jr.
MIAMI
Barbara Lagoa
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.
Robert J. Luck
ARMED FORCES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Liam P. Hardy
M. Tia Johnson
Gregory E. Maggs
D.C. CIRCUIT
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Karen L. Henderson
Florence Y. Pan
Neomi Rao
Sri Srinivasan
Robert L. Wilkins
FEDERAL CIRCUIT
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Raymond T. Chen
Richard G. Taranto
ALABAMA
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY
Emily C. Marks
W. Keith Watkins
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
HUNTSVILLE
Liles C. Burke
Herman N. Johnson Jr.
ARIZONA
DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
PHOENIX
Michael T. Liburdi
ARKANSAS
EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK
Kristine Baker
CALIFORNIA
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SACRAMENTO
John A. Mendez
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN DIEGO
Janis Lynn
Sammartino
James E. Simmons Jr.
CONNECTICUT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
BRIDGEPORT
Stephan R. Underhill
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
BANKRUPTCY COURT
NEW HAVEN
Ann Nevins
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
WILMINGTON
Colm F. Connolly
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WASHINGTON, D.C.
James E. Boasburg
Rudolph Contreras
Zia Faruqui
Timothy Kelly
Trevor N. McFadden
Amit P. Mehta
Carl Nichols
Vijay Shanker
Nina Y. Wang
FLORIDA
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
TAMPA
Kathryn Kimball
Mizelle
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE
Allen C. Winsor
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
FT. PIERCE
Aileen Cannon
MIAMI
Cecilia Altonega
GEORGIA
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
ALBANY
Leslie Abrams Gardner
MACON
Tilman E. Self III
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
ATLANTA
Timothy C. Batten Sr.
ILLINOIS
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
CHICAGO
Manish S. Shah
INDIANA
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA
HAMMOND
Jon DeGuilio
KANSAS
DISTRICT OF KANSAS
KANSAS CITY
Daniel D. Crabtree
MARYLAND
DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
BALTIMORE
Stephanie A. Gallagher
Ellen Hollander
MICHIGAN
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
DETROIT
Terrence G. Berg
Mark Goldsmith
Jonathan J.C. Grey
MISSISSIPPI
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON
Carlton W. Reeves
NEVADA
DISTRICT OF NEVADA
RENO
Anne R. Traum
NEW HAMPSHIRE
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
CONCORD
Samantha D. Elliott
Joseph N. LaPlante
NEW JERSEY
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
CAMDEN
Christine P. O’Hearn
TRENTON
Robert Kirsch
NEW MEXICO
DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO
ALBUQUERQUE
William P. Johnson
SANTA FE
Martha A. Vazquez
NEW YORK
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
BROOKLYN
Rachel Kovner
William F. Kuntz
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
ALBANY
Mae A. D’Agostino
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
MANHATTAN
Jesse Furman
Paul G. Gardephe
WHITE PLAINS
Judith C. McCarthy
NORTH CAROLINA
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH
James C. Dever III
Robert T. Numbers II
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
GREENSBORO
L. Patrick Auld
Catherine Eagles
WINSTON-SALEM
Thomas D. Schroeder
OHIO
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
AKRON
Sara Lioi
CLEVELAND
James Gwin
OREGON
DISTRICT OF OREGON
PORTLAND
Karin J. Immergut
PENNSYLVANIA
EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA
Kelley B. Hodge
Chad F. Kenney
WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
PITTSBURGH
Mark R. Hornak
Christy Criswell Wiegand
PUERTO RICO
DISTRICT OF PUERTO
RICO
SAN JUAN
Gina R. Mendez-Miro
SOUTH CAROLINA
DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COLUMBIA
J. Michele Childs
Sherri Lydon
TENNESSEE
EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
CHATTANOOGA
Charles Atchley Jr.
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
MEMPHIS
Jon Phipps McCalla Tu Pham
TEXAS
EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
TEXARKANA
Roberts W. Shroeder III
TYLER
J. Campbell Barker
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
AMARILLO
Matthew Kacsmaryk
DALLAS
Jane J. Boyle
Sidney Fitzwater
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI
Drew Tipton
HOUSTON
Charles Eskridge
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
ALPINE
David B. Fannin
DEL RIO
Alia Moses
VIRGINIA
EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA
Rossie D. Alston Jr.
Leonie M. Brinkema
T.S. Ellis III
Patricia T. Giles
NORFOLK
Mark S. Davis
Robert Doumar
Raymond Jackson
Rebecca Beach Smith
Jamar K. Walker
RICHMOND
Henry E. Hudson
M. Hannah Lauck
Robert E. Payne
WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
ABINGDON
James Jones
CHARLOTTESVILLE
Jasmine Yoon
LYNCHBURG
Norman K. Moon
ROANOKE
Robert Ballou
Michael F. Urbanski
WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA BANKRUPTCY COURT
ROANOKE
Paul Black
WYOMING
DISTRICT OF WYOMING
CHEYENNE
Nancy D. Freudenthal
U.S. COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Eleni M. Roumel
Stephen S. Schwartz
Zachary N. Somers
U.S. TAX COURT
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Richard Morrison
COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
NEW YORK
Miller Baker
ALABAMA
ALABAMA SUPREME COURT
MONTGOMERY
Jay Mitchell
ALASKA
ALASKA SUPERIOR COURT
ANCHORAGE
John Cagle
ARIZONA
ARIZONA COURT OF APPEALS
PHOENIX
James B. Morse Jr. COLORADO
COLORADO SUPREME COURT
DENVER
Richard L. Gabriel
Monica M. Marquez
DELAWARE
SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE
WILMINGTON
Collins J. Seitz Jr. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
D.C. COURT OF APPEALS
Joshua Deahl
Stephen H. Glickman
D.C. Superior Court
Julie H. Becker
Robert Salerno
HAWAII
HAWAII SUPREME COURT
HONOLULU
Michael D. Wilson
MARYLAND
APPELLATE COURT OF MARYLAND
ANNAPOLIS
Brynja M. Booth
Robert N. McDonald
SUPREME COURT OF MARYLAND
ANNAPOLIS
Matthew J. Fader
MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT
SAINT PAUL
Minnesota Supreme Court Justices
MISSOURI
MISSOURI SUPREME COURT
JEFFERSON CITY
W. Brent Powell
NEW JERSEY
NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT
SUSSEX COUNTY
Lorraine M. Augostini
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH CAROLINA
COMMERCIAL COURT
CHARLOTTE
Louis Bledsoe
OHIO
OHIO COURT OF APPEALS
CINCINNATI
Pierre Bergeron
OREGON
OREGON COURT OF APPEALS
PORTLAND
Jacqueline S. Kamins
PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
STROUDSBURG
Margherita
Patti-Worthington
RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND
SUPREME COURT
PROVIDENCE
Melissa A. Long
TEXAS
SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Brett Busby
Rebecca Huddle
Debra Lehrmann
VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA CIRCUIT COURT
ALEXANDRIA
James C. Clark
Lisa B. Kemler
Kathleen M. Uston
FAIRFAX CIRCUIT COURT
FAIRFAX
Grace Burke Carroll
NORFOLK CIRCUIT COURT
NORFOLK
Staff Clerkship
VIRGINIA COURT OF APPEALS
CHARLOTTESVILLE
Lisa M. Lorish
SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA
FAIRFAX
Thomas P. Mann
FREDERICKSBURG
Stephen R. McCullough
Virginia values its reputation as a school that produces graduates who are skilled in law and balanced in life.
Access to 10 academic journals and more than 70 student organizations, from social clubs to legal aid groups, ensures that students explore the world outside law school and expand their legal experiences while leading wellrounded lives. Students enjoy their time here, growing intellectually and personally, and at graduation join the thousands of successful alumni who recall their law school years with warmth and enthusiasm.
HOMETOWN: Los Angeles
EDUCATION: Syracuse University, sports management
NEXT:
Clerkships at the District of Puerto Rico and Western District of Virginia District Court. “After that, I plan to head out West to work for the environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond in their San Francisco office.”
“I engaged in a lot of extracurriculars during my time at UVA. During my 1L year, I was a part of the 2024 Community Fellows class that helps foster community in the Law School. I was secretary for the Black Law Students Association for the 2022-23 school year, as well as a Peer Advisor. I was also involved in the Libel Show all three years, even becoming one of the head writers for the 116th Libel Show.”
❱ The
A student placed an encouraging note in a library book for other students to find and contribute to, and later a professor found it and added his own message before returning it to the library. Will you find it?
Advocates for Life at Virginia Law
Agape
American Constitution Society
Asian Pacific
American Law Students Association
Barristers United Black Law Students Association
Child Advocacy Research and Education
Common Law Grounds
Domestic Violence Project
Extramural Moot Court
Federalist Society
Graduate Law Students Association
Health Law
Association
If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice at UVA Law
Immigration Law Society
International Tax Practicum/ Moot Court
International Refugee Assistance Project
JD/MBA Society
Jewish Law
Students Association
John Bassett Moore Society of International Law
Korean American Law Student Association
Lambda Law Alliance
Latin American Law Organization
Law Christian Fellowship
Law, Innovation, Security & Technology
Law Republicans at UVA
Legal Advisory Workshops for Undergraduate Students Legal Research Forum
The Libel Show
Lone Star Lawyers
Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association
Midwestern Wahoos
Mock Trial at UVA Law
Muslim Law
Students Association
National Lawyers Guild
National Security Law Forum
North Grounds
Softball League
North Grounds
Track Club
Outdoors at VA Law
Older Wiser Law Students
Patent Law
Society for Litigators, Agents and Prosecutors
Peer Advisors
Philip C. Jessup
International Moot Court Team
Plaintiffs’ Law Association at the University of Virginia
Public Interest Law Association
Rex E. Lee Law Society
Rivanna Investments
South Asian Law Student Association
Southeastern Wahoos
St. Thomas More Society
Student Bar Association
Virginia Employment and Labor Law Association
Virginia Environmental Law Forum
Virginia Law & Business Society
Virginia Law
Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Society
Virginia Law Families & Partners
Virginia Law
First-Generation Professionals
Virginia Law in Prison Project
Virginia Law One for the World
Virginia Law Rod & Gun Club
Virginia Ski and Snowboard Society
Virginia Law
Veterans
Virginia Law Weekly
Virginia Law
Wine Society
Virginia Law Women
Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Society
West Coast Wahoos
William Minor Lile Moot Court Board
Women of Color
❱ Joseph Camano ’24
HOMETOWN: Virginia Beach, Virginia
EDUCATION: Randolph-Macon College, English music and Asian studies
NEXT: Sidley Austin, New York
“I served as vice president for the Wheelchair Tennis Team at UVA. I greatly enjoyed representing the University while competing in various out-of-state wheelchair tennis tournaments throughout my second and third year. I also served on the Virginia Tax Review and as a research assistant for Professor Cathy Hwang. ... You’ll be faced with many new and unexpected opportunities. Don’t be afraid to say yes to them.”
Ask any student what sets VIRGINIA LAW apart from other top law schools and they will tell you about the extraordinary sense of community found here.
At UVA, a rigorous and academically challenging professional education is paired with a collegial environment that promotes inclusivity and encourages students to share and learn from each other’s unique perspectives.
Teamwork, cooperation, skilled communication, respect and an understanding of different points of view are integral to a profession that serves an increasingly diverse society.
Many student organizations focus on bringing together students of different racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds, as well as people of different sexual orientations and political affiliations.
The UVA Law Community Fellows Program fosters a sense of belonging, collegiality and mutual respect by selecting first-year students to serve as ambassadors to their peers throughout their time at the Law School, and later in the professional world. Participating students gain insight and mentorship and develop professional skills such as leadership, negotiation and fostering the free exchange of ideas.
Through the Peer Advisor program, second- and third-year law students help entering students acclimate to law school by offering friendship and support.
Students and faculty participate in Common Law Grounds, in which participants seek to understand diverging viewpoints as a first step toward identifying and articulating areas of agreement and fostering a culture of open and civil dialogue.
Other groups include:
As the Law School’s Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Equity, Mark C. Jefferson works to strengthen and advance the school’s commitment to being a diverse and equitable institution in which every member—including students, faculty and staff—feels an equal sense of belonging.
“I firmly believe that in a community as plural as ours is, along every social register, we can’t help but benefit from being deeply invested in engaging with and learning from each other,” Jefferson said. “UVA Law is committed to creating an equitable environment where each person is provided the kinds of support that allow them, both as a member of our community and as an individual, to flourish and succeed.”
HOMETOWN: Panhandle, Texas
EDUCATION: Texas Tech University, philosophy and Spanish
NEXT: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dallas, and clerkships on the Texas Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
“Everyone here has bought in on cultivating a supportive and friendly environment. The faculty support is unmatched.”
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EQUITY
Assistant Dean Mark C. Jefferson (434) 924-9294
mjefferson@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/diversity
Student organizations are empowered to develop and implement a variety of programs to support their members and the entire community, including career networking receptions, social and mentoring events with faculty, and talks by lawyers about their professional experiences. Some recent events have included:
Unpacking Privilege: An Experience-Based Dialogue on Diversity, sponsored by the Student Bar Association as part of Diversity Week
BLSA Black History Month Kickoff, with Chief Judge Roger Gregory of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Common Law Grounds: Student Debt—Who Is Responsible?, featured students and faculty discussing issues across the political divide
50 Years of Title IX, with Suzanne Goldberg, U.S. Department of Education
Women in Big Law and Women in Public Service, sponsored by Virginia Law Women
Nowruz Celebration, sponsored by the Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association
Jewish Law Students Association Bag Brunch
Trans Youth Rights Panel, hosted by Child Advocacy Research and Education, and Lambda Law Alliance
Latin American Law Organization Salsa Dancing Class
accolades for its ideal marriage of urban amenities and a gorgeous natural setting.
Combining the best of city life with the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is both cosmopolitan and unhurried.
As the picturesque and thriving home to more than 223,000 residents, Charlottesville has kept its small-town feel. Local restaurants have been featured in publications such as Gourmet magazine and The New York Times, and an impressive array of local wineries offer awardwinning vintages and a place to gather with friends.
The city’s proximity to Washington, D.C., as well as its reputation as one of the nation’s best places to live, have brought a global cultural infusion to Charlottesville in recent years.
Scholars and students seeking to balance the intense rigors of teaching and learning with a community in which they can relax, enjoy entertainment and appreciate abundant natural beauty will find a home in Charlottesville.
❱ law.virginia.edu/charlottesville
“The center of the action is the brick-paved historic Downtown Mall, aka Main Street, where antique books and furnishings, sophisticated restaurants and galleries, and old-school bars and soda fountains nourish the stomach and the soul.”
—Jennifer Tung, The New York Times
Charlottesville’s diverse culinary treasures appeal to those seeking gourmet experiences, ethnic variety and family-friendly atmospheres.
The Sidley Austin Café and Greenberry’s Coffee Bar, located within the Law School, offer breakfast, lunch and snacks every weekday during the school year.
In addition, students often join professors
and administrators for lunch in the Law School’s Philip M. Stone Dining Room. Next door to the Law School, the Forum, a Kimpton hotel owned by the Darden School of Business, offers lunch and dinner, including patio seating. There are also a dozen restaurants and two grocery stores a short walk from Grounds. ❱ law.virginia.edu/dining
Law School Favorites
Fleurie
Bodo’s Bagels
The Local gourmet
Charlottesville’s location in Central Virginia offers an abundance of options for day trips and longer excursions. Minutes from town, residents can explore the homes of James Monroe, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, as well as other historic landmarks. Touring the area’s
numerous wineries is another favorite weekend outing, with some featuring polo matches and live music.
Day trips to Washington, D.C., and Virginia’s major cities yield a variety of museums, cultural offerings and shopping options. Families enjoy being close to ski resorts, Virginia Beach, Jamestown and Williamsburg, the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond, Luray Caverns and Natural Bridge, and the Kings
Dominion, Busch Gardens and Water Country USA theme parks. The Outer Banks of North Carolina is a popular beach getaway just four hours by car.
The Charlottesville Albemarle Airport offers nonstop flights to New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Charlotte and Washington, D.C., while Amtrak serves the entire Eastern Seaboard. Closer to home, Skyline Drive, the Appalachian Trail, the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge Parkway are all within 45 minutes of town.
Cirque du Soleil
Noah Cyrus Beck
Ariana Grande Fun. Wilco
Lady Gaga
Jay Z with T.I. Muse
Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello
Justin Timberlake
Bruce Springsteen
Paul McCartney
Carrie Underwood
Pharrell Williams
Blue Man Group
Taylor Swift
THE HOMETOWN of the Dave Matthews Band, Charlottesville has several theaters, nightclubs and music venues that create a thriving entertainment scene. Yo-Yo Ma, Savion Glover, the Miami City Ballet and Pete Davidson are just a few of the acts that have performed at the Paramount Theater, a restored 1931 venue. The Ting Pavilion, located at the end of the bricked pedestrian Downtown Mall and the site of free concerts on Friday evenings, has showcased Wilco, Noah Kahan, The Flaming Lips, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
In 2006, the University opened the town’s largest venue yet, the 16,000seat John Paul Jones Arena, where basketball games and live acts, including Taylor Swift, Cirque du Soleil and the Eagles have played. The University’s football stadium also occasionally hosts stadium shows, including U2 and the Rolling Stones
The region has a number of smaller venues that feature more intimate performances and avant garde fare, including the Live Arts Theater, the University of Virginia Drama and Music departments, Piedmont Virginia Community College and the American Shakespeare Center at Blackfriars Playhouse, the world’s only re-creation of William Shakespeare’s original indoor theater.
Charlottesville is home to art galleries that feature internationally recognized artists as well as emerging local talent. On the first Friday of every month, area galleries reveal their latest shows to the community. The event brings the community together with featured artists over hors d’oeuvres and wine. While there are several dedicated galleries, it’s also hard to miss the many small shows on the walls—inside and out—of local coffee shops and restaurants.
Each fall the University hosts the nationally acclaimed Virginia Film Festival, which in the past has attracted Spike Lee, Roger Ebert, Anthony Hopkins, Liev Schreiber and Sandra Bullock. In the spring, the Virginia Festival of the Book gathers the nation’s literary luminaries and draws more than 20,000 book lovers. Recently featured authors include John Grisham, Dahlia Lithwick, Rita Dove, Michael Connelly and David Baldacci ’86
VIRGINIA’S strong overall sports program is recognized nationally—UVA is one of 10 schools to rank in the top 30 of the final Directors’ Cup standings every year since the award was founded in 1993.
THE AREA is home to some of the best camping and hiking sites in the nation, including portions of the Appalachian Trail.
IN ADDITION to an extensive park and hiking trail system in Charlottesville and Albemarle, nearby national parks include the George Washington National Forest and the Shenandoah National Park Regional rivers and lakes offer ample opportunities for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and tubing.
The Blue Ridge Mountains burst into color in fall and offer majestic views from many area roads and trails in every season. Ski enthusiasts enjoy the slopes at Wintergreen Resort, just 45 minutes from town, as well as Massanutten Resort in nearby Harrisonburg. Neighboring West Virginia offers the Snowshoe and Canaan Valley resorts, including White Grass, known for its cross-country skiing.
Central Virginia is also a hot spot for horse lovers. The steeplechase races at Foxfield draws thousands of smartly dressed spectators to Western Albemarle County each spring and fall.
The area offers many youth sports leagues, including soccer, basketball, baseball, swimming, lacrosse and football.
Students have access to all the University’s world-class fitness and recreation facilities, including four on-Grounds fitness centers, the Snyder Tennis Center, the McArthur Squash Center at the Boar’s Head Sports Club, and Birdwood Golf Course.
The North Grounds Recreation Center, just down the street from the Law School, features a 10-lane lap pool, hot tub and sauna, group exercise classes, a dedicated multimedia cycling room and three handball/racquetball courts. That’s in addition to cardiovascular training equipment, strength-training machines and free weights. The University’s Outdoor Recreation Center serves students, faculty and community members wishing to take advantage of area hiking, camping, rock-climbing and water sports.
❱ recsports.virginia.edu
For regular-season home athletic events, students simply present a valid UVA student identification card for admission at student rates.
❱ virginiasports.com/student-tickets
Charlottesville boasts more than 40 daycare and preschool options for area families. The University of Virginia Child Development Center operates two child care centers within a five-minute drive of the Law School. These facilities provide full-day programs to children from 6 weeks to 5 years old.
The CharlottesvilleAlbemarle region has some of the best public schools in the state, with graduates continuing their education at Ivy League and top public and private universities. Average SAT scores at local public schools rank higher than state and national averages. Charlottesville and Albemarle schools also feature Advanced Placement classes and a diverse curriculum, with courses ranging from
Japanese and AP statistics to art history. More than 70% of teachers hold advanced degrees. Dual-enrollment agreements with the University of Virginia and Piedmont Virginia Community College allow high school students to enroll in college courses for credit.
The region offers several notable K-12 private schools, including St. Anne’s-Belfield School, Covenant School,
Tandem Friends School, Charlottesville Catholic School, Charlottesville Day School, Peabody School, and several Montessori and Waldorf schools.
In addition to renowned schools, the Charlottesville area offers a veritable playground for families: parks, museums, orchards, mountains, natural areas for hiking and outdoor recreation, opportunities to
get involved in theater and sports leagues, as well as access to one of the best libraries in the country at the University of Virginia. The beach, the state capital and Washington, D.C., are all within a three-hour drive. During the summer, there are scores of themed camps to choose from, including some offered by the University of Virginia. The Law School also hosts events that bring families and friends together.
❱ law.virginia.edu/cville
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The Charlottesville area features historic and modern homes in both urban and rural environments.
Faculty, students and staff enjoy living downtown, close to the amenities that are within walking distance of some of the area’s most distinguished homes. Others enjoy scenic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains among suburbs, horse farms and smaller communities starting just minutes from the Law School.
Popular suburban areas include Ivy and Crozet to the west, Earlysville to the north, and Keswick and Still Meadow to the east.
Options for downtown living range from large classic homes on Park and Locust streets to chic lofts over the Downtown Mall or newly refurbished houses throughout nearby neighborhoods. Downtown dwellers have easy access to some of the region’s finest restaurants and shopping, while living just minutes from the Law School.
Most students choose to live in off-Grounds apartments or houses, many of which are within a 5- to 10-minute walk of the Law School. OnGrounds housing includes apartments for singles and families, and the historic Range, a graduate community for single students.
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Like most college towns, Charlottesville has numerous places to spend the night, including a new site that opened adjacent to the Law School, the Forum Hotel. Owned by the Darden School of Business Foundation and run by Kimpton, the hotel features 198 hotel rooms, a restaurant and sports bar, an arboretum and botanical gardens, and numerous event and gathering spaces.
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The Law School is a 9-mile drive from the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, and the city has an Amtrak train station and Greyhound bus lines a short drive from Grounds. City and University bus lines make getting around without a car possible, though many students enjoy the convenience of having a car. Parking is available close to the Law School through ParkMobile or for a monthly fee.
