UVA Law J.D. Catalog, 2023-24

“You can come here and be a Supreme Court clerk. You can come here and be a law firm partner. You can come here and be a federal public defender. You can come here and do anything you want— the sky is the limit on the kind of career you can have. …

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…What’s unique about this place is, in addition to that, you don’t have to sacrifice your sanity or happiness. …

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… The idea that you would have to weigh and balance academic excellence and professional opportunity against happiness or collegiality is a false choice. You can have it all here.”

—Dean Risa Goluboff

LAW AT VIRGINIA

A Strong Foundation

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.

THE UNIVERSITY’S FIRST LAW CLASSES were taught in Pavilion III, located on the Lawn. The school moved over time as UVA expanded, until it found a home on North Grounds in 1973.

FAST FACTS

❱ Home to more than 25,000 students and 17,000 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.

Before he became a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia served on the UVA Law faculty from 1967-74.

At the 1978 Lile Moot Court competition, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, center, presided among the judges. Marshall’s son is a UVA Law graduate.

The Law School was located in Clark Hall before moving to its current location. In 1975, the William Minor Lile Moot Court competition took place in Old Cabell Hall on Main Grounds.

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.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the Law School in 1997 to receive the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, right, pictured as a student in 1974, was a member of the Black Law Students Association.

In 1991, student Jim Ryan ’92—now UVA president—met former President Jimmy Carter at the inaugural Dillard Scholars’ Lecture.

U.S. Sen. Jennifer McClellan ’97 is the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress.

Retired Lt. Gen. Charles Pede ’87 was the 40th judge advocate general of the U.S. Army.

U.S. Sens. Ted Kennedy ’59, left, and Robert F. Kennedy ’51, right, with President John F. Kennedy during a visit to UVA.

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.

Former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson ’68, now administrator of NASA, flew to space with the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986 as a congressman.

John Bassett Moore 1880 was the first American to serve as a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.

U.S. Sen John Warner ’53 was a leading voice on military policy and served as secretary of the Navy

Elaine Jones ’70, UVA Law’s first Black woman graduate, became president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Yuji Iwasawa S.J.D. ’97 is currently a judge on the International Court of Justice.

❱ 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.

❱ David Baldacci ’86 is an internationally best-selling author.

❱ Catherine Keating ’87 is CEO of BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

VIRGINIA graduates have become leaders in

private industry, education and the arts.

Today’s graduates become leaders in private industry, education and the arts.

❱ Liz Magill ’95 is president of the University of Pennsylvania.

❱ 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.

What It Means To Be a

UVA Lawyer

Law school is about more than going to classes, reading cases and writing briefs. It includes 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.

NEXT:

“Law school has, for the better, completely reshaped the way I think about the world, simultaneously making me a more cautious, critical thinker while further deepening my sense of empathy.”

FAST FACTS

❱ 46 UVA Law graduates chosen to clerk at the Supreme Court, 2004-2024 terms

❱ 898 J.D. students, Fall 2022

❱ 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

❱ 74% of the Class of 2026 had work experience after college

❱ 6.2:1 student-faculty ratio, Fall 2022

❱ 20,000+ alumni in all 50 states and in more than 60 foreign countries

❱ 24 clinics

❱ 70 student organizations, 10 academic journals

❱ 13 dual-degree programs

❱ 16,284 pro bono hours logged by students in 2022-23

❱ 10 study-abroad programs

❱ 46% of alumni gave to the law school, 2022-23

❱ 18 cases argued by the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic since its inception in 2006

❱ Trevor Floyd ’23 HOMETOWN: Conway, South Carolina EDUCATION: Clemson University, political science and theater

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York

BREAKING the cycle of recidivism

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.

❱ Professor Kelly Orians, who previously launched a holistic reentry services organization in New Orleans, directs the Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic.

❱ Clinic student Whitney Carter ’23 with volunteer Abby Scheper ’23

INSIDE a special counsel investigation

The leaders of the historic special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election have twice taught 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, invited 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 were Aaron Zebley ’96, Jim Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, with Mueller attending all 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.

❱ Andrew Goldstein, Aaron Zebley ’96, Robert Mueller ’73 and Jim Quarles were the senior leaders of the special counsel investigation.

❱ Former FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller ’73 speaks to students outside of class.

SUPREME argument

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 on Nov. 1, 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 for argument, Ortiz practiced in a number of moot arguments, going up against third-year students Boyd Hampton, Julia Grant, Harper North and Dev Ranjan, 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.

FIGHTING HATE abroad

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.”

❱ Norton Rose Fulbright attorney Luthando Dlamini showed Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, to UVA Law students Marley Peters ’23, Aviae Gibson ’25, Daniel Dunn ’25 and Laura-Louise Rice ’25

❱ Keegan Hudson and Laura-Louise Rice participated in a barista training class with locals while visiting a township in Cape Town.

The Curriculum

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 students 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.

WRITING a constitution

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 semesterlong 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.

❱ The original Commission on Constitutional Revision, pictured in 1968, was led by A. E. Dick Howard (standing, right) and included future Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. (center).

❱ Professor Mila Versteeg (seated, center) and students in her Comparative Gender Equality class gathered to recreate a photo of the 1971 Virginia Constitution drafting commission.

COURSE CONCENTRATIONS

Business Organization and Finance

Commercial Law

Communications and Media Law

Constitutional Law

Criminal Justice

Employment and Labor Law

Environmental and Land Use Law

Family Law

Health Law

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Intellectual Property

International and National Security Law

Jurisprudence and Comparative Law

Legal History

Litigation and Procedure

Public Policy and Regulation

Race and Law

Tax Law

PROGRAMS AND CENTERS

The John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Program in Law and Public Service

Center for International & Comparative Law

Program in Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for Criminal Justice

Center for Empirical Studies

Karsh Center for Law and Democracy

Virginia Center for Tax Law

Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE)

LawTech Center

Education Rights Institute

National Security Law Center

Center for the Study of Race and Law

Family Law Center

First Amendment Center

Health Law Program

Human Rights Program

Intellectual Property Program

Immigration Law Program

Public Policy and Regulation

Center for Law & Philosophy

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics

Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy

Animal Law Program

❱ Professor Cale Jaffe, bottom left, stands with students in the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic and community leader Muriel Branch

SAVING a historic schoolhouse

The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic recently 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 1,200-acre 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.”

CLINICS

❱ The school’s 24 clinics provide students with realworld experience and contact with clients, giving them a head start as attorneys (see page 44 for details).

Appellate Litigation

Civil Rights

Community Solutions

Criminal Defense

Decarceration and Community Reentry

Economic and Consumer Justice

Entrepreneurial Law

Environmental Law and Community Engagement

Federal Criminal Sentence Reduction

First Amendment Health and Disability Law

Holistic Youth Defense

Housing Litigation

Immigration Law

Innocence Project

International Human Rights Law

Nonprofit Patent and Licensing

Project for Informed Reform Prosecution

State and Local Government Policy

Supreme Court Litigation

Workplace Rights

Youth Advocacy

❱ Muriel Branch is chairwoman of the AMMD Pine Grove Project

EXTERNSHIPS

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 selfassessment. The externship program assists students in adjusting to their roles as professionals, becoming better problem-solvers, and developing interpersonal and professional skills from direct observation of and experience in the practice of law.

JENI HENDRICKS ’21, who grew up in the Osage Nation, externed with the Kaw Nation’s Office of the Attorney General in Oklahoma in the fall of 2020.

“I learned the many hats a tribal lawyer must wear and the positive changes an invested attorney general can create not only for the Kaw Nation but also for individual tribal citizens,” she said.

“Contract review has been an especially robust component of the externship, given the increased number of contracts the tribe is entering into with CARES Act funding. ... I also assisted the attorney general in efforts, led by tribal citizens, to amend Kaw Nation laws.”

Virginia Law students design their legal education and their intellectual life.

Virginia offers more than 250 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.

FIRST-YEAR CURRICULUM

FALL

Civil Procedure Contracts

Criminal Law

Legal Writing

Torts

SPRING

Constitutional Law

Legal Writing

Property

5-7 hours of electives

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Master of Laws (LL.M.)

Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)

DUAL-DEGREE PROGRAMS

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

EXTERNAL COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS

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

STUDY ABROAD

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 11 international exchange programs:

Bocconi Law School, Milan

Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Instituto de Empresa, Madrid

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

❱ Harper North ’23

Hometown: Atlanta

Education: University of Virginia, public policy and leadership

Next: Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C.

“I loved Federal Courts with Payvand Ahdout, Class Actions with Scott Ballenger, Civil Rights Litigation with Thomas Frampton, and Religious Liberty with Micah Schwartzman. I also had a really great experience with my independent study, and would definitely encourage anyone who, like me, has a never-ending list of grievances about the law to write about them—and get credit for it!”

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.

Faculty

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.

❱ Students and professors bid on prizes during the Public Interest Law Association auction, which raises funds for students working in public service roles.

A SCHOLAR and a mentor

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 head of the school’s LawTech Center, she works with many 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.”

❱ At the end of the spring 2023 semester, faculty, alumni and students faced off in a charity basketball game.

❱ Dean Risa Goluboff meets every first-year section for breakfast in the fall and has lunches with student leaders and others throughout the year.

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.

❱ Professor John Duffy worked on a legal team that won a unanimous decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that will greatly curb the practice of “forum-shopping” for venues in patent litigation cases.

Faculty engage in public discourse to shape the law.

PROFESSORS support a community of scholars.

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.

“Being a scholar can be a very solitary experience, but that is not the case at UVA Law School. Every time I present a paper to my colleagues, I am overwhelmed by their enthusiasm, their generosity and their engagement. They offer me constructive criticism from every possible angle and improve my work immeasurably. Perhaps more important, they make the scholarly process a communal, rather than an individual, one. I feel privileged to be part of such a vibrant and supportive intellectual community.”

—Dean Risa Goluboff

❱ Professor Megan Stevenson uses her research in law and economics to improve the criminal justice system. She and a team of scholars recently received a $200,000 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to study the hidden long-term effects of incarceration. The two-year project will evaluate how incarceration affects

❱ Professor Amanda Frost testified in May before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform, arguing that Congress has the constitutional authority to pass a code of ethics for the justices.

❱ Professor John Harrison workshops his paper with moderator Professor Frederick Schauer

Public Service

We believe lawyers have an obligation to serve.

“ 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.”

—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.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY ’51 FELLOWSHIP

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: New York City and Westchester County, New York

EDUCATION: Case Western Reserve University, political science; New York University, public administration and policy

NEXT: Assistant district attorney, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

“There are abundant professional and academic support resources here to get you to where you want to go—particularly Assistant Dean Leah Gould at the Public Service Center and Assistant Dean Sarah Davies in the Office of Student Affairs. When I was applying to public service jobs, I met with Leah nearly a dozen times to review my application essays, discuss strategy and prepare for interviews. And when I wanted to improve my time management as a 1L, I met with Dean Davies, who helped me create a Microsoft Excel chart allocating time for class, reading for class, outlining, sleep, office hours, the gym, etc.—a rubric that I still use today. In short, these resources helped me see and reach my potential.”

UVA Law funds servicepublic fellowships

The school guarantees summer funding for all students working in public service.

In 2023, $789,000 was distributed to 162 students, including $49,000 in funds from the Public Interest Law Association. Firstyear students each receive $4,000 and second-year students each receive $7,000 from the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center

The grants funded the internships of Ryan Moore ’25 and Shelby Singleton ’25 Moore worked for the Fairfax County Public Defender’s Office, where he helped public defenders and participated in a mock trial through which interns practice the skills they learned over the summer. Singleton worked with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, assisting with civil rights enforcement and policy matters.

Ryan Moore ’25

Shelby Singleton ’25

❱ Adam Younger ’23

Seekingequal justice

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 will be joining the civil rights and racial justice unit. She plans to pursue civil right claims on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.

Mary Merkel ’23, a former schoolteacher, won an Equal Justice Works fellowship to represent students and parents in school proceedings with The Bronx Defenders She is the school’s 12th EJW fellow.

POWELL FELLOWSHIP IN LEGAL SERVICES

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 22nd Powell Fellow in Legal Services, Helen Song ’23 will assist survivors of human trafficking. Working with Justice At Last in Oakland and San Francisco, Song will provide direct legal representation and train pro bono attorneys and community partners. “A lot of undocumented survivors live with the fear of being deported or experiencing retaliation from their traffickers, so they don’t really reach out for help,” Song said. “They’ll often not realize they have legal rights, and they’ll continue to just live in fear.”

Ruby Cherian ’23

Mary Merkel ’23

THE LAW SCHOOL

fosters a robust public service community.

Virginia has more than 20 student organizations that work in the public interest, help members gain experience and foster 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.

THE PROGRAM IN LAW AND PUBLIC SERVICE

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

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.

PUBLIC SERVICE 2022-23

❱ $740,000 awarded to 162 students working in public interest jobs during the summer of 2023

❱ 16,284 pro bono hours logged in 2022-23 ❱ 82 Class of 2023 graduates completed at least 75 hours of pro bono while in law school

❱ 6,390 hours logged by 197 students at 92 organizations during winter break

The Class of 2025 helps local nonprofits at the annual Public Interest Law Association day of service in August 2022.

LAW STUDENTS

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.

Hands-On Law

❱ Students in the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic act as general counsel for startup companies run by MBA students at the Darden School of Business

❱ Isabelle Foley ’24 makes a presentation in the Holistic Youth Defense Clinic

❱ Students in the Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic and Professor Kelly Orians (center, right) helped Whitmore Merrick Jr., center, who was originally convicted of marijuana possession, get his full civil rights restored.

24 CLINICS HELP STUDENTS PRACTICE BEING A LAWYER.

Appellate Litigation

Students brief and argue one or more appeals before a federal appeals court.

Civil Rights

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.

Decarceration and Community Reentry

Students assist formerly incarcerated people with resolving the collateral consequences of arrests and convictions, and with creating sustainable and effective reforms in their communities.

Community Solutions

Teams of students act as consultants and legal advisers for community organizations.

Criminal Defense

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.

Economic and Consumer Justice

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.

Entrepreneurial Law

Students provide legal counseling and draft basic corporate documentation for startup companies.

Environmental Law and Community Engagement

Students represent and counsel environmental nonprofits, citizens’ groups and community

organizations seeking to protect and restore the environment.

Federal Criminal Sentence Reduction

Through a unique opportunity to practice in federal court, students work to reduce the sentences of indigent federal inmates.

First Amendment

In conjunction with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, students undertake projects protecting First Amendment rights.

Health and Disability Law

Students help represent mentally ill and elderly clients in negotiations, administrative hearings and court proceedings.

Holistic Youth Defense

Students represent juvenile clients on delinquency matters, as well as related school discipline and special education matters.

Housing Litigation

Students handle eviction cases, rent escrow cases, grievance hearings and other enforcement of residents’ rights.

Immigration Law

Students may work with clients to appeal denied applications for status, special categorization or other procedures.

Innocence Project

Students investigate potential wrongful convictions of Virginia inmates through interviewing potential clients and witnesses, and searching and reviewing pertinent case files and records.

International Human Rights Law

Students gain experience in human rights advocacy under the supervision of international human rights lawyers.

Nonprofit

Students work with local nonprofit organizations on matters such as initial formation, tax-exempt status, ongoing legal compliance and good corporate governance.

Patent and Licensing

These clinics train students in patent drafting as well as the negotiation and drafting of patent and software license agreements.

Project for Informed Reform

Students collaborate with outside organizations to produce research and reliable data supporting criminal justice reform proposals.

Prosecution

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.

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State and Local Government Policy

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.

Supreme Court Litigation

Working in teams, students handle actual U.S. Supreme Court cases, from seeking review to briefing on the merits.

Workplace Rights

Cases may include wrongful-discharge actions, unemployment compensation claims, employment discrimination charges and other claims.

Youth Advocacy

Students represent children involved in legal issues in the areas of education, foster care and social services, mental health and developmental disabilities, and delinquency.

❱ State and Local Government Policy Clinic students Tim Dodson ’24, Clare Hachten ’24, Michael Ferguson ’24 and Michael Pruitt ’24 stand in the Virginia House of Delegates. Hachten and Ferguson collaborated with lawmakers to pass a mental health reform bill to address overcrowding in the state’s mental health facilities, Dodson worked on legislation to create a legal cannabis market, and Pruitt assisted with a bill to reduce the impact of fines and fees on juvenile defendants.

Other Practical Training

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.

EXPERIENTIAL COURSES

Advanced Contracts

Advanced Criminal Procedure Seminar

Advanced Legal Research

Advanced Legal Writing: Civic Engagement and Persuasion

Advanced Verbal Persuasion

Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Workplace

Appellate Practice

Bioethics and Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration

Border Policy and Politics

Business Reorganization

Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code

Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations

The Trial Advocacy College is an intensive eight-day experience offered annually between the fall and spring terms. Third-year 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.

Computational Text Analysis for Legal Practice

Conservation Planning and Law

Corporate Strategy

Corporate Transactions Deals

Defining Leadership Moments

Designing Democracy: Participation

Drug Product Liability

Litigation: Principles and Practice

Electronic Discovery

Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice

Estate Planning: Principles and Practice

Federal Criminal Pre-Trial and Trial Practice

Federal Litigation Practice

Gender-Based Violence: US Law and Policy

Global Contracting: A Case Study

Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance

Graduate Legal Research and Writing II

Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy

Human Rights Study Project

Innovating for Defense

International Business Negotiation

International Debt Transactions

International Tax Practicum

Law of Public-Private Partnerships

Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar

Lawyers, Clerks, and Judicial Decision-making

Legal Research and Writing I

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.

Legislative Drafting and Public Policy

Litigation Skills and

Professional Liability Law

Music Law: Analytical and Client Management Skills

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

Project for Informed Reform

Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills

Public M&A Negotiation

Real Estate Transactions and Litigation

Regulatory Law and Policy

Securities Litigation and Enforcement

Spanish for Public Service Lawyers

Start-Up 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 College

Trial Advocacy

These courses represent the 2021-24 school years.

❱ 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.

AREAS OF STUDY

Concentrations

VIRGINIA LAW OFFERED THE FOLLOWING COURSES DURING THE PAST THREE ACADEMIC YEARS.

Several courses appear in more than one concentration. Numbers in parentheses indicate year: 2020-21 is coded (21); 2021-22 is (22) and 2022-23 is (23). 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.

BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND FINANCE

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (21,22,23)

Advanced Contracts (22)

Advising Boards of Directors (Public and Private Equity) Under Siege (21,22,23)

Agency, Partnership and the LLC (21,22,23)

Airline Industry and Aviation Law (21,22,23)

Antitrust (23)

Antitrust in the Digital Economy (21,22)

Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment (21,22,23)

Banking and Financial Institutions (21,22,23)

Bankruptcy (21,23)

Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (21,22,23)

BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law (21,22,23)

Business Planning (21,22,23)

Business Reorganization

Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (22)

Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations (22,23)

Corporate Finance (21,22,23)

Corporate Governance New ParadigmShareholder Activism (21)

Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of

Chancery (23)

Corporate Social Responsibility (21,22)

Corporate Strategy (22)

Corporate TransactionsStartup to Exit (21,22)

Corporations (21,22,23)

Corporations (Law & Business) (21,22,23)

Corporations, Investors and ESG (21,22,23)

Critical Perspectives in Business Law (22)

Cryptocurrency Law and Policy (22,23)

Cryptocurrency Regulation (21)

Current Issues in Corporate Law and Governance (21)

Deals (21,23)

Derivatives Markets and Their Regulation (22)

Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (21,22,23)

Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (22,23)

Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (21,22,23)

Federal Regulation of Investment Companies (21,22,23)

Financial Crime: Risks, Risk Management and Compliance (23)

Franchise Law (21,23)

Global Business and International Corruption (21,22,23)

Inside the Boardroom

(21,22,23)

International Business Negotiation (21,23)

International Business Transactions (21,22)

International Debt Transactions (22,23)

International Trade and Investment (21)

Introduction to Law and Business (21,22)

Israeli Business Law and Innovation (23)

Law of Public-Private Partnerships (21,22,23)

LawTech (21,22,23)

Leadership and Team Management (23)

Legal Issues in Corporate Finance (Law & Business) (22)

Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (21,22,23)

Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits (21,22,23)

Mergers and Acquisitions (21,22,23)

Nonprofit Organizations (21,22,23)

Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (21,22,23)

Personal Data Protection in Europe (23)

Quantitative Methods (21,22)

Repugnant Transactions (22,23)

Secured Transactions (21,22,23)

Securities Litigation and Enforcement (21,22,23)

Securities Regulation (21,22,23)

Securities Regulation (Law & Business) (21,22,23)

Startup of a Medtech Company (21,22,23)

The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation (21,22,23)

The Corporate Law of HBO’s “Succession” (22)

Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (21,22,23)

Topics in Public Equity Investing (21,22,23)

Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions (21,22,23)

Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation (22,23)

Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (21,22,23)

CLINICS

Advanced Community Solutions Clinic (22,23)

Community Solutions Clinic (22,23)

Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (21,22,23)

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (21,22,23)

Nonprofit Clinic (21,22,23)

COMMERCIAL LAW

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Admiralty (21,22)

Advising Boards of Directors (Public and Private Equity) Under Siege (21,22,23)

Airline Industry and Aviation Law (21,22,23)

Antitrust (21,22,23)

Banking and Financial Institutions (21,22,23)

Bankruptcy (21,23)

Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (21,22,23)

Business and Governmental Tort Liability (21,22,23)

Business Reorganization

Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (22)

Chinese Law (23)

Commercial Sales

Transactions: Domestic and International (23)

Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations (22,23)

Construction Law (21,23)

Copyright Law (21,22,23)

COVID and Contracts: Courts, Regulation and Drafting (22)

Financial Crime: Risks, Risk Management and Compliance (23)

Franchise Law (21,23)

Insurance (21,22)

Internet Law (21,22,23)

Introduction to the Law of Trade Secrets (21,22,23)

Liability Insurance Law (21,23)

Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law (21,22,23)

Modern Real Estate (21,22,23)

Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (21,22,23)

Patent Law (22)

Real Estate Transactions and Litigation (21,22)

Regulatory Law and Policy (21,22,23)

Secured Transactions (21,22,23)

Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (21,22,23)

Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation (22,23)

Wine and the Law (23)

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA LAW

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Business and Governmental Tort Liability (23)

Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (21,22,23)

Contract Theory (23)

Copyright Law (21,22,23)

Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (21,22,23)

Free Speech and the Digital Age (22)

International Arbitration (22)

International Civil Litigation (21,22,23)

Internet Law (21,22,23)

Internet Regulation Seminar (22) Privacy (21,22,23)

Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (21,22,23)

CLINIC First Amendment Clinic (21,22,23)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Administrative Law (21,22,23)

Advanced Administrative Law (22,23)

Advanced Campaign

Rights Law (21,22,23)

International Law of Migration and Refugees (21)

Law and Inequality Colloquium (23)

Law of Armed Conflict (21,23)

Law, Inequality and Education Reform (21,22)

Native American Law (21)

Race, Education and Opportunity (21,22,23)

Racial Justice and Law (21,22,23)

Sexuality and the Law (22,23)

CLINICS

Advanced International Human Rights Clinic (22,23)

Civil Rights Clinic (21,22,23)

First Amendment Clinic (21,22,23)

Immigration Law Clinic (21,22,23)

International Human Rights Law Clinic (21,22,23)

Housing Litigation Clinic (21,22,23)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Antitrust in the Digital Economy (21,22)

Art Law (21,22)

Computational Text Analysis for Legal Practice (22)

Computer Crime Law (21,22)

Copyright Law (21,22,23)

Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (21,22,23)

Exercises in Rule MakingSociety, Technology and the Law (22)

Internet Law (21,22,23)

Introduction to the Law of Trade Secrets (21,22)

Israeli Business Law and Innovation (23)

Law and Artificial Intelligence (23)

Law and Technology

Colloquium (22,23)

Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (21,22,23)

Music Law: Analytical and Client Management Skills (21,22,23)

Patent Law (21,22,23)

Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (21,22,23)

Trade Secret Law (23)

Trademark Law (23)

CLINICS

Advanced Patent and

Licensing Clinic (21,22,23)

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (21,22,23)

Patent and Licensing Clinic (21,22,23)

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Admiralty (21,22)

Advanced Topics in the Law of Armed Conflict (JAG)(21,22)

An American Half-Century (21,22,23)

Border Policy and Politics (22,23)

Building the Rule of Law (21)

Capitalism and Socialism Seminar (22)

Commercial Sales Transactions: Domestic and International (23)

Contemporary Practice of the U.S. Relating to International Law (21,22)

Corporate Social Responsibility (21,22)

Cryptocurrency Regulation (21)

Cybersecurity Law and Policy (23)

Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (22,23)

Foreign Relations Law (21,22,23)

French Public and Private Law (21,23)

Global Business and International Corruption (21,22,23)

Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (21)

Governing the World Seminar (22,23)

Human Rights Study Project (23)

Human Rights, Then and Now: Philosophy, History, Prospects (21)

Immigration Law and Policy (21,22,23)

Innovating for Defense (21,22,23)

International Arbitration (22)

International Business Negotiation (21,23)

International Civil Litigation (21,22,23)

International Criminal Law (21)

International Debt Transactions (22)

International Environmental Law (21,22,23)

International Human Rights Law (21,22,23)

International Law (21,22,23)

International Law and the Use of Force (21,23)

International Law of Migration and Refugees (21)

International Tax Practicum (21,22,23)

International Taxation (21,22,23)

International Trade and Investment (21)

International Trade Law and Policy (22,23)

Israeli Business Law and Innovation (23)

Law of Armed Conflict (21,23)

National Security Law (21,22,23)

National Security Law and Practice (21)

Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (21,22,23)

Personal Data Protection in Europe (23)

Presidential Powers (21,22) Sanctions and Boycotts (21,22,23)

Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics (21,22,23)

War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions (23)

World War I (21,22)

CLINICS

Advanced International Human Rights Clinic (22,23)

Immigration Law Clinic (21,22,23)

International Human Rights Law Clinic (21,22,23)

JURISPRUDENCE AND COMPARATIVE LAW

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Advanced LawTech (22)

Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses) (21)

Barbarian Law (22)

Building the Rule of Law (21)

Chinese Law (23)

Civil Rights Litigation (21,22,23)

Comparative Constitutional Law (21,22,23)

Comparative Gender Equality (23)

Constitutional Law and Economics (23)

Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (21,22,23)

Constitutional Law II: Religious Liberty (21,22,23)

Constitutional Originalism (21)

Constitutionalism: History and Jurisprudence (21)

Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions (21,22,23)

Contract Theory (23)

Dignity Law Seminar (23)

Feminism and the Free Market (21,22)

Feminist Jurisprudence (21,22,23)

French Public and Private Law (21,23)

International and Comparative Family Law (23)

Jurisprudence (21,22)

Law and Inequality

Colloquium (23)

Law and Social Science

Colloquium (21,22,23)

Law and Theories of Justice (23)

Law, Literature and Social Policy Seminar (23)

Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief Introduction (21,22,23)

Legal Theory Workshop Seminar (22)

Liberalism and Its Critics (21,22,23)

Personal Data Protection in Europe (23)

Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture (21,23)

Rule of Law and Threats to It (21,23)

Seminar in Ethical Values (21,22,23)

Social Identity, Critical Theory and the Law (22,23)

Social Science in Law (21,22,23)

Sports and Games (23)

Supreme Court From Warren to Roberts (21,22)

The Supreme Court: Before, During and After Ruth Bader Ginsburg (21)

Voice and Silence in Law and Literature (23)

LEGAL HISTORY

COURSES AND SEMINARS

American Legal History Seminar (23)

An American Half-Century (21,22,23)

Barbarian Law (22)

Cause Lawyers in American History (21)

Civil War and the Constitution (22)

Constitutional Law II: Poverty (21,22,23)

English Legal History to 1776 (21,22)

Federalism (22,23)

Founders and Foes (21,22,23)

Global Legal History (22,23)

History of American Federalism (23)

Law and Inequality Colloquium (23)

Law and Riots (23)

Law in American History: 20th Century (21,22,23)

Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar (23)

Monetary Constitution Seminar (22,23)

Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds (23)

The Institutional Supreme Court (22)

Virginia and the Constitution (21,22)

World War I (21,22)

LITIGATION AND PROCEDURE

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Advanced Legal Research (21,22,23)

Advanced Topics in Federal Courts Seminar (21,22,23)

Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (21,22)

Advanced Verbal Persuasion (21,22,23)

Advancing the Commitment to Public Service Through Law Firm Pro Bono (21,22,23)

Advising and ProblemSolving for Lawyers Engaged With Communities (21)

Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Workplace (22)

Appellate Practice (22,23)

Civil Rights Litigation (21,22,23)

Class Actions and Aggregate Litigation (21,22)

Computational Text

Analysis for Legal Practice (22)

Conflict of Laws (21,22,23)

Construction Law (21,23)

Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery (23)

Criminal Investigation (21,22,23)

Criminal Procedure Survey (21,22,23)

Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (21,22,23)

Drug Product Liability

Litigation: Principles and Practice (21,22,23)

Electronic Discovery (23) Evidence (21,22,23)

Federal Courts (21,22,23)

Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice (21,22,23)

Federal Government

Oversight: The Role of the Watchdog (21) Federal Litigation Practice (21,22,23)

Gender-Based Violence: U.S. Law and Policy (21,22)

Global Business and International Corruption (21,22,23)

Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (21)

Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (21,22,23)

Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy (22,23)

Immigration Law and Policy (21,22,23)

Internal Investigations (21)

International Arbitration (22)

International Civil Litigation (21,22,23)

Introduction to the Law of Trade Secrets (21,22)

Judging (21)

Juvenile Justice Seminar (21,22)

Law Reform and Impact Litigation (22)

Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar (23)

Legislation (21,22,23)

Litigation and Public Policy (23)

Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law (21,22,23)

Negotiation (21,22,23)

Oral Presentations In and Out of the Courtroom (21,22,23)

Persuasion (21,22,23)

Plea Bargaining (23)

Pretrial Litigation Skills: Civil Rights (21,22,23)

Professional Responsibility (21,22,23)

Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Law Practice (21,22,23)

Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (21,22,23)

Quantitative Methods (21,22)

Remedies (21,22,23)

Rhetoric Seminar (21) Science and the Courts (21,22,23)

Securities Litigation and Enforcement (21,22,23)

Separation of Powers in the Federal Courts Seminar (22,23)

Taking Effective Depositions (21,22,23)

Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar (22,23)

The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel (22,23)

Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts (21,22,23)

Title IX: The Law and Policy of Sex Discrimination in Education (22,23)

Trial Advocacy (21,22,23)

Trial Advocacy College (23)

Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (21,22,23)

Understanding Police Use

Law and Business

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.

❱ 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.

work has revealed insights on corporations and how they can lead through global governance and policymaking.

an expert on mutual funds and retirement accounts, joined Michal Barzuza in writing a paper on millennial influence in corporate governance, which was named among the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of the year.

❱ Four of Cathy Hwang’s articles have been named among the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of the year.

❱ 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.

❱ A former dean of the Law School, Paul G. Mahoney is the author of “Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails.”

❱ An expert in public international law, Pierre-Hugues Verdier is the author of “Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance.”

❱ Jay Butler’s

❱ Mitu Gulati is one of the world’s leading experts on sovereign debt restructuring and helping countries in financial distress.

❱ Quinn Curtis,

UVA’S CORPORATE LAW FACULTY are leaders in their fields and former practitioners who bring their expertise to bear on their research.

LAW & BUSINESS CURRICULUM

Students can take advantage of an extensive set of curricular opportunities that allow them the flexibility to sample according to their interests or dive deep.

Business Methods and Skills

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 Courses

Core business law courses include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Bankruptcy, Employment, Environmental Law, Income Tax, Antitrust and Intellectual Property.

Enhanced Core Law & Business Courses

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 these legal divisions:

❱ The Carlyle Group

❱ Chevron ❱ CVS Health

❱ HanesBrand

❱ The Hershey Co.

❱ NBC Universal

❱ Netflix ❱ Sallie Mae

❱ Verizon and more

Alumni in the corporate world.

❱ David Hyman ’96 has served as general counsel of Netflix since 2002.

❱ Grace Fu ’09 is the general counsel for Booking Holdings Inc. companies KAYAK and OpenTable

❱ Dasha Smith ’98 became executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the NFL in 2019.

❱ Andrew Teal ’22 and Max Ain ’22 won the inaugural Transactional Law Competition, a moot courttype competition that tests aspiring M&A lawyers’ negotiating skills.

ADVANCED COURSES

Typically offered in small seminar settings, advanced courses prepare students for realworld 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.

RECENT COURSES

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.

Beyond the Curriculum

Students can access a variety of extracurricular activities, including:

❱ The Virginia Law & Business Review, a leading student-edited 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.

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. The Corporate Law Of HBO’s “Succession,” taught by Professor Cathy Hwang and Peter Lyons, a legal consultant for the show.

LAW AND BUSINESS Professor Jay Butler (434) 924-5459

jbutler@law.virginia.edu

law.virginia.edu/business

SELECT COURSES AND SEMINARS

Big Law and the Profession (and Business) of Law

Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations

Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery

Corporate Transactions— Startup to Exit Corporations

Corporations, Investors and ESG

Critical Perspectives in Business Law

Cryptocurrency Law and Policy

Current Issues in Corporate Law and Governance

Deals

Derivatives

Markets and Their Regulation

Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital

Financing: Principles and Practice

Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities

Regulation Federal Regulation of Investment Companies

Franchise Law

Global Business and International Corruption

International Business Transactions

International Debt Transactions: Sovereign Debt Crises

International Investment Law

Israeli Business Law and Innovation

Law of PublicPrivate Partnerships

LawTech

Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits

Mergers and Acquisitions

Nonprofit Organizations

Quantitative Methods

Repugnant Transactions

Secured Transactions

Securities Regulation

Topics in Private Company Acquisitions

Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions

Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers

CLINICS

Community Solutions Clinic

Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic

Employment Law Clinic

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

Nonprofit Clinic

Patent and Licensing Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 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.

Constitutional Law

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.

❱ Dean Risa Goluboff recently 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.

❱ Michael D. Gilbert teaches and writes about election law, legislation, and law and economics, as well as misinformation and corruption.

❱ Deborah Hellman focuses on equal protection and its philosophical justification, and the relationship between money and legal rights.

❱ Leslie Kendrick is an expert on freedom of expression who teaches courses in torts, property and constitutional law.

❱ 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.

❱ Caleb E. Nelson teaches civil procedure, federal courts and statutory interpretation, and is the author of a casebook on legislation.

❱ Daniel R. Ortiz,, a constitutional law and elections expert, has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

❱ A frequent commentator on the Supreme Court, Richard M. Re’s work focuses on criminal procedure, federal courts and constitutional law.

❱ Bertrall Ross is focused on democratic responsiveness and accountability, as well as the inclusion of marginalized communities in administrative and political processes.

❱ 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.

❱ 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

❱ Lawrence B. Solum is an internationally recognized legal theorist who works in constitutional theory, procedure and the philosophy of law.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Administrative Law

Advanced Administrative Law

Advanced Campaign Finance Seminar

Advanced Topics in Law of the Police

Advanced Topics in the First Amendment

(Religion Clauses)

After Dobbs

Asian Americans and the Law

Balancing Public Safety and Civil Liberties: Law Enforcement Policymaking

Business and Governmental Tort Liability

Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law

Civil Rights Litigation

Civil War and the Constitution

Comparative

Constitutional Law

Comparative Gender Equality

Constitutional Law and Economics

Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press

Constitutional Law II: Poverty

Constitutional Law II: Religious Liberty

Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties

Constitutional Originalism

Constitutionalism: History and Jurisprudence

Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions

Courts

Criminal Procedure Survey

Designing Democracy: Participation

Discrimination Theory

Education Law Survey

Eighth Amendment

Death Penalty Law

Eminent Domain, Expropriation and Emergency Action

Federal Courts

Federal Sentencing

Founders and Foes

Free Speech and the Digital Age

Higher Education and the Law

History of American

Federalism

Introduction to American Law for LL.M.s

Land Use Law

Law and Inequality

Colloquium

Law and Riots

Law of Armed Conflict

Law of Corruption

Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation

Legislation

RELATED CENTERS

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 the First Amendment includes renowned scholars of the religion clauses and the speech and press clauses of the First Amendment.

❱ 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.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Professor Charles Barzun (434) 924-6454 cbarzun@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/conlaw

CLINICS

Several yearlong clinical courses offer students hands-on 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 gives students practical legal experience involving timely free-speech and press issues.

❱ Supreme Court Litigation Clinic students handle actual cases, from petitioning for Supreme Court review to briefing on the merits.

Legislation and Regulation

Monetary Constitution

Seminar

Parental Choice in K-12 Education

Presidential Powers

Pretrial Litigation

Skills: Civil Rights

Privacy

Race, Education and Opportunity

Racial Justice and Law

Regulation of the Political Process

Reproductive Rights and Justice

Separation of Powers in the Federal Courts Seminar

State Constitutions

Supreme Court From Warren to Roberts

Supreme Court Justices and the Art of Judging

Supreme Court:

October Term

The Institutional Supreme Court

The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel

Understanding Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts

Virginia and the Constitution

CLINICS

Appellate Litigation Clinic

Civil Rights Clinic

First Amendment Clinic

Project for Informed Reform Clinic

Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ Professor Aditya Bamzai made his debut at the U.S. Supreme Court after a rare decision by the justices to hear argument from him as an independent amicus curiae.

An understanding of criminal justice is fundamental to any lawyer’s education.

Criminal Law

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, the 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.

❱ The Innocence Project at UVA Law recently helped free client Darnell Phillips, who served 28 years in prison, after uncovering DNA evidence that supported his claims of innocence.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Criminal Justice

Advanced Crimes and Defenses (JAG School)

Advanced Topics in Law of the Police

Balancing Public Safety and Civil Liberties: Law

Enforcement

Policymaking

Computer Crime

Law

Criminal Adjudication

Criminal Investigation

Criminal Justice Reform Seminar

Criminal Procedure Survey

Criminology

Critical Analysis of the Military Justice System (JAG)

Cryptocurrency Regulation

Death Penalty Law

Decriminalizing

Mental Illness

Education Inside U.S. Prisons Seminar

Evolution of Holistic Defense

Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice

Federal Government

Oversight: The Role of the Watchdog

Federal Litigation Practice

Federal Sentencing

Financial Crime: Risks, Risk Management and Compliance

Gender-Based

Violence: U.S. Law and Policy

Global Business and International Corruption

History and Evolution of Victims’ Rights (JAG)

Internal Investigations

International Criminal Law

Law and Psychology: Wrongful Convictions Seminar

Law of Corruption

Law of the Police

Legislation and Regulation

Plea Bargaining

Race and Criminal Justice

Rethinking Criminal Justice

Rights of the Accused (JAG)

Social Science in Law

Understanding

Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts

War Crimes and Atrocity Law (JAG)

CLINICS

Civil Rights Clinic

Criminal Defense Clinic

Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic

Federal Criminal Sentence Reduction Clinic

Holistic Juvenile Defense Clinic

Innocence Project Clinic

Project for Informed Reform Clinic Prosecution Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ Prosecution Clinic student Natalia Heguaburo ’23 talks with Charlottesville General District Court Judge Kenneth Andrew Sneathern.

CLINICS Civil Rights

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.

Criminal Defense

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.

Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic

This clinic works to stop the cycle of incarceration by helping formerly incarcerated people resolve the collateral consequences of arrests and convictions and creating sustainable and effective reforms in their communities.

Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy

Students work directly with clients to file motions in federal District Courts to reduce client sentences, including post-release supervision.

Holistic Youth Defense

Students represent clients on delinquency, school discipline and special education matters, in order to help keep youth in their homes, schools and communities with appropriate support.

Innocence Project

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.

Project for Informed Reform

Students collaborate with outside organizations to produce research and reliable data supporting criminal justice reform proposals. Prosecution

In this yearlong clinic, students work with prosecutors to try cases in local jurisdictions. Students explore a range of issues involved in the discharge of a prosecutor’s duties.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Virginia Journal of Criminal Law

This student-edited journal—one of only a handful at leading law schools focused on criminal law—also sponsors legal symposia and conferences.

Domestic Violence Project

This pro bono student organization monitors local domestic violence cases and assists local prosecutors by interviewing victims of domestic violence.

Virginia Innocence Project Pro Bono Clinic

In the pro bono counterpart to the forcredit clinic, students volunteer their time to evaluate innocence claims by prisoners in Virginia and assess the appropriate avenues of legal relief.

Virginia Law in Prison Project

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.

❱ 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, whose work 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.

The Program in CommunitiesLaw,

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.

Environmental and Land

Beyond the Curriculum

The Law School’s support for learning opportunities in environmental and land use law goes deeper than course offerings.

Symposia

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.

Virginia Environmental Law Journal

Founded in 1979 and managed and edited by students, the journal is a leader in environmental legal scholarship.

Virginia Environmental Law Forum

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.

and the Environment, or PLACE, supports environmental events and activities at the Law School.

Use Law

ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND USE LAW

Professor Cale Jaffe (434) 924-4776 cjaffe@law.virginia.edu

Professor Richard C. Schragger (434) 924-3641 schragger@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/place

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Climate Change Law

Conservation Planning and Law

Construction Law

Eminent Domain, Expropriation and Emergency Action

Energy and Environmental Products

Trading and Commodities

Regulation

Energy and the Environment

Energy

Regulation and Policy

Environmental Law

Historic Preservation Law

International Environmental Law

Land Use Law

Law of Place and Place of Law

Law of PublicPrivate Partnerships

Modern Real Estate

UNIVERSITY COURSES

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.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CLINIC

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. Students participate in a range of activities on

Natural Resources Law and Policy

Public Utility Regulation Seminar

Theory and Practice of Biodiversity

Conservation

Urban Law and Policy

Water Law and Policy

Wine and the Law

CLINICS

Advanced Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic

Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

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.

❱ Professor Michael A. Livermore is the co-author of the book “Reviving Rationality: Saving CostBenefit 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.

❱ 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.

UVA’s FAMILY LAW CENTER creates opportunities to cultivate and exchange premiere family law scholarship on these topics through lectures and symposia.

Family Law

FAMILY

LAW

raises questions of social justice with profound personal significance:

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?

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

STUDENTS CAN ENGAGE IN FAMILY LAW ISSUES 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

❱ Feminist Legal Forum

❱ If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice at UVA Law

❱ Lambda Law Alliance

❱ Virginia Law Families

❱ Virginia Law Women

❱ Women of Color

FAMILY LAW CLINICS

Civil Rights Clinic

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 yearlong clinical course is offered in partnership with the Legal Aid Justice Center.

Holistic Youth Defense Clinic

This semester-long clinic provides students an opportunity to practice holistic and zealous lawyering by representing juvenile clients on delinquency, school discipline and special education matters, in order 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.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

After Dobbs Aging and the Law Lecture

Children and the Law

Decriminalizing Mental Illness

Education Law Survey

Estate Planning: Principles and Practice

Professor Naomi Cahn (434) 924-4709 ncahn@law.virginia.edu

Family Law

International and Comparative Family Law

Juvenile Justice Seminar

Parental Choice in K-12 Education

Practical Trust and Estate Administration

Professor Gregg Strauss (434)

243-1819

greggstrauss@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/family

Litigation and Housing Law Clinic

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.

Youth Advocacy Clinic

In the yearlong clinic, offered in conjunction with the JustChildren Program of the Legal Aid Justice Center, 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.

CLINICS

Reproductive Ethics and Law

Reproductive Rights and Justice

Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts

Trusts and Estates

Civil Rights Clinic

Holistic Youth Defense Clinic

Housing Litigation Clinic

Youth Advocacy Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ 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.

❱ 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.

Women of Color is among those connecting to family law issues.

Students benefit from viewing the regulatory context through the eyes of physicians, inventors, health care administrators and experts from a variety of fields.

Health Law

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

❱ Newsweek ranked the University of Virginia Medical Center No. 1 in Virginia and in the top 50 hospitals nationally in 2023.

J.D.-M.P.H. Public Health Program

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.

J.D.-M.D. Program

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.

Health and Disability Law Clinic

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.

Fellowships and Externships

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.

❱ Nevah Jones ’22, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, won a Skadden Fellowship to apply both her legal training and personal experiences to help fellow veterans file their own health claims with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. For one part of her project, Jones will be training physicians at Atrium Health on what it takes to provide legally adequate opinions for veterans in disability benefit cases.

❱ 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.

FACULTY School of 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

School of Medicine and UVA

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

CONTACT

HEALTH LAW

Professor Ruth Gaare Bernheim (434) 924-7340 rg3r@law.virginia.edu

Professor Margaret Foster Riley (434) 924-4671 mimiriley@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/health

❱ Professor John Monahan is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has directed two research networks on mental health law for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Advanced LawTech

After Dobbs

Aging and the Law Lecture

Bioethics and Law Internship

Seminar: Health

Policy and Administration

Bioethics and the Law Seminar

Blood Feud

COVID and Contracts: Courts, Regulation and Drafting

Current Topics in Law, Medicine and Society

Professor Margaret Foster “Mimi” has written and presented extensively about health care law, biomedical research, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cell research, animal biotechnology, health disparities and chronic disease.

Datafication, Automation and Inequality

Disability Law

Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar

Drug Product Liability

Litigation: Principles and Practice

Exercises in Rule

Making - Society, Technology and the Law

Food and Drug Law

Food Systems

Law and Policy

Genetics and the Law

Health Care

Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform

Health Law Survey

Law and Ethics of Biotechnology

Lessons From COVID-19 Medicalization and the Law

Medicare Practice Seminar

Mental Health Law

New Frontiers in Neuroethics and Law

Reproductive Ethics and Law

Topics in Health Care Reform

CLINICS

Civil Rights Clinic Health and Disability Law Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

Protecting human rights is the foundation of law.

The Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia allows students to explore the range of opportunities available in the human rights field, at home and abroad, through hands-on experiences.

The program is the hub for human rights activities at the Law School, and cooperates with student groups, faculty members, the Public Service Center and Career Development, and human rights organizations to coordinate speakers, events, summer and postgraduate employment, and pro bono opportunities.

Human Rights Law

COURSES AND SEMINARS

The Law School curriculum has included a number of courses focused on human rights in recent years, including International Human Rights Law, U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law, and National Security, Human Rights and the Courts. Other courses touch on human rights topics, such as Racial Justice and the Law, Constitutional Law and Economics, and Law of Armed Conflict

ALUMNI NETWORKS

JOBS AND FELLOWSHIPS

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 $4,000 (first year) and $7,000 (second year) from the student-run Public Interest Law Association

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

❱ Salwa Ahmad ’24 and Layla Khalid ’23 listen to the translation at the Organization of American States’ 52nd General Assembly in Lima, Peru. The OAS asked the International Human Rights Clinic students to research the barriers to participation civil society organizations face at the OAS Dialogue and suggest ways to ensure all voices are heard equally.

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, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Myanmar, Colombia, Nepal and Argentina.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CLINIC

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Professor Camilo Sánchez (434) 924-7304 csanchez@law.virginia.edu

Professor Mila Versteeg (434) 243-8541 versteeg@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/humanrights

❱ Professor Mila Versteeg’s co-authored book, “How Constitutional Rights Matter,” was awarded the International Society of Public Law prize for best book published in 2019 or 2020, and the Best Book Award from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association

❱ Professor Camilo Sánchez, director of the school’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, formerly was a research coordinator of Dejusticia and associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. He has also served as an adviser to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and as a researcher at the Colombian Commission of Jurists.

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 humanrights 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

Immigration Law

Virginia’s IMMIGRATION LAW PROGRAM allows students to explore the key legal and public policy issues, including whom the United States should admit, who should qualify for political asylum, what should be done about undocumented people, and the impact of immigration on the economy and national security.

Learning from experienced faculty, students consider issues posed by immigration and build practical skills through an immigration clinic and pro bono efforts offering aid to clients. The program also brings in expert speakers on immigration law, including leading attorneys and policy advocates, immigration judges and government officials.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND PRO BONO PROJECTS

Outside of the classroom, the Immigration Law Program provides students with numerous hands-on learning experiences.

Afghan Immigrant Project

Coordinated by the CharlottesvilleAlbemarle Bar Association

Volunteer Pro Bono Program, the project deploys students to help Afghan refugees fill out paperwork aimed at reuniting them with family members stranded abroad.

Migrant Farmworker Project

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.

Immigrant Jail Outreach Project

In conjunction with the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, law student volunteers are trained to help CAIR Coalition attorneys working with immigrant detainees at local jails. Students

may assist with know-yourrights presentations, interview detainees and conduct initial case development.

International Refugee Assistance Project

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.

From the Mexican border to the halls of Congress, the controversy over immigration law has intensified and become more critical to U.S. policymakers.

IMMIGRATION LAW

Professor Kevin Cope (434) 924-4492 kcope@law.virginia.edu

Professor Amanda Frost (434) 924-7573 afrost@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/immigration

COURSES AND SEMINARS

CORE COURSES

Immigration Law and Policy

Immigration Law Clinic

OTHER COURSES

Administrative Law

Asian Americans and the Law

Border Policy and Politics

Foreign Relations Law

International Human Rights Law

International Human Rights Law Clinic

International Law

International Law of Migration and Refugees

Labor Law Legislation

National Security Law

Presidential Powers

Racial Justice and Law

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

IMMIGRATION LAW CLINIC

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.

❱ Professor Kevin Cope’s research in immigration and other topics investigates legal and political decision-making using empirical, comparative and formal theoretical methods.

❱ 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.

❱ 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.

❱ Immigration Law Clinic instructor Ivan Yacub, Sabrina Mato ’24, instructor Marissa Baer, Ariana Smith ’23 and Mariam Kassa ’24 stand with a client, center, they helped win asylum.

Being a good intellectual property lawyer requires adaptability in a dynamic field and an understanding of the realities of producing intellectual works.

Intellectual

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.

Property

PATENT AND LICENSING CLINICS

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.

Recent projects include:

❱ applying for a patent for a class of metals capable of recovering their original shape and thickness after impact or crushing

❱ converting a provisional patent application on a technology designed by a pharmacology professor that may halt the spread of cancerous cells

❱ reviewing prior art, market research and a marketing plan for a neuro-stimulation technique for the treatment of epilepsy

❱ creating a brief on pharmaceutical patents in developing countries

❱ Students and UVA Law professor Dotan Oliar, right, an intellectual property expert, visit the Wix global headquarters in Israel as part of the January Term class Israeli Business Law and Innovation.

Specialized Faculty in Intellectual Property Law

❱ 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.

❱ In addition to her groundbreaking work on cyberstalking and intimate privacy, Danielle K. Citron has been a leading thinker on how the laws governing social media, including copyright law, affect privacy rights.

❱ 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.

❱ 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.

❱ An internationally recognized legal theorist, Lawrence B. Solum has worked on problems of law and technology, including artificial intelligence, internet governance, copyright policy and patent law.

❱ Professor Elizabeth A. Rowe is an internationally renowned expert in intellectual property and trade secrets. Four of Rowe’s articles have been named by Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property Review as among the best intellectual property articles of the year.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Antitrust in the Digital Economy

Art Law

Biotechnology and the Law

Communications Law

Computational

Text Analysis for Legal Practice

Computer Crime Law

Copyright Law

Cultural Property

Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice

Intellectual Property Law Policy

Internet Law

Israeli Business Law and Innovation

Law and Artificial Intelligence

Law and Technology Colloquium

Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look Music Law: Analytical and Client Management Skills

Patent Law

Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark Trade Secret Law

Trademark Law

CLINICS

Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

Patent and Licensing Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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.

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.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Professor John F. Duffy

(434) 243-8544

jfduffy@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/ip

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.

International and National

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.

Security Law

SPECIAL CENTERS AND PROGRAMS

National Security Law Center

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 newer challenges stemming from new technologies, terrorism and geopolitical changes, and the center is the hub for national security law research, scholarship and events at the Law School.

Center for International & Comparative Law

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.

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

John Bassett Moore Society of International Law

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 a lunch lecture series and sponsors the Jessup International Law Moot Court team and pro bono human rights projects.

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.

Virginia Journal of International Law

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.

Virginia Law Veterans

This organization supports student members of the military community and serves as an information resource for national security or international law and policy issues.

❱ Olena Protsenko, a Ukrainian who was doing postdoctoral research at UVA Law when Russia invaded, worked as a staff attorney through the International Human Rights Law Clinic during 2022-23 and elicited help from law students to sue Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for possible war crimes.

INTERNATIONAL STUDY Exchange Programs

Second- and third-year students have access to 11 international exchange programs:

❱ Bocconi Law School, Italy

❱ Bucerius Law School, Germany

❱ Hebrew University, Israel

❱ Instituto de Empresa, Spain

❱ 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

Human Rights Study Project

January Term Abroad

Semester Abroad

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 studyabroad program at a foreign university law school or law department for one semester.

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.

The Law School offers courses in Paris and Tel Aviv, Israel, during the January term over winter break.

Students may spend a semester abroad in a supervised setting combining academic legal research and work experience. Past projects have examined judicial reform in Argentina and the strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

External Collaborative Programs

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.

❱ Each year, UVA Law students participate in the Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program, which gives students from leading law schools the opportunity to establish connections and expand their interest in international law. Maya Artis ’24, Divya Vijay ’24, Amanda Huang ’24 and Keeghan Sweeney ’24 (pictured with Professor Ashley Deeks) were among 56 law students representing 14 leading law schools at the February 2023 seminar in Washington, D.C.

❱ Bocconi University in Italy

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Admiralty

Advanced Topics in the Law of Armed Conflict (JAG)

An American Half-Century

Border Policy and Politics

Building the Rule of Law

Capitalism and Socialism Seminar

Commercial Sales

Transactions:

Domestic and International

Contemporary Practice of the U.S. Relating to International Law

Corporate Social Responsibility

Cryptocurrency Regulation

Cybersecurity Law and Policy

Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice

Foreign Relations Law

French Public and Private Law

Global Business and International Corruption

Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution

Governing the World Seminar

Human Rights Study Project

Human Rights, Then and Now: Philosophy, History, Prospects

Immigration Law and Policy

Innovating for Defense

International Arbitration

International Business Negotiation

International Civil Litigation

International Criminal Law

International Debt Transactions

International Environmental Law

International Human Rights Law

International Law

International Law and the Use of Force

International Law of Migration and Refugees

International Tax Practicum

International Taxation

International Trade and Investment

International Trade Law and Policy

Israeli Business Law and Innovation

Law of Armed Conflict

National Security Law

National Security Law and Practice

Negotiating a Joint Venture in China

Personal Data Protection in Europe

Presidential Powers Sanctions and Boycotts

Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics

War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions

World War I

CLINICS

Advanced International Human Rights Clinic

Immigration Law Clinic

International Human Rights Law Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ Kristen Eichensehr, who teaches and writes about cybersecurity, foreign relations, international law and national security law, leads the school’s Center for National Security Law. Among other topics, she has written on the attribution of state-sponsored cyberattacks, the important roles that private parties play in cybersecurity, and the constitutional allocation of powers between the president and Congress in foreign relations.

❱ David S. Law is an internationally recognized expert in the comparative study of public law and courts, and a pioneer in the application of empirical social science methods to the study of legal texts. His scholarship combines qualitative fieldwork on foreign judicial and constitutional systems, quantitative analysis of constitutions and treaties, and regional expertise on Asia.

❱ 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 multidisciplinary course in which students helped the Pentagon tackle emerging national security challenges such as the use of artificial intelligence in the military and implementing behavioral norms among states operating in outer space.

CONTACT

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Professor Paul B. Stephan (434) 924-7098

pbs@law.virginia.edu

law.virginia.edu/international

NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

Professor Kristen Eichensehr (434) 924-3572 keichensehr@law.virginia.edu

law.virginia.edu/nationalsecurity

❱ Paul B. Stephan, a preeminent international law scholar with particular expertise in Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems, offers insights about the history and shaky future of the international order in his new book “The World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future.” He directs the Center for International & Comparative Law.

Philosophical problems lie at the heart of each area of law.

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.

Law and Philosophy

Center 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.”

❱ 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.

LAW & PHILOSOPHY

Professor Deborah Hellman (434) 243-9123 dhellman@law.virginia.edu

law.virginia.edu/philosophy

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Advanced LawTech

Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses)

Barbarian Law

Behavioral Law and Economics

❱ 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 primary research and teaching interests are in criminal procedure, federal courts and constitutional law.

Building the Rule of Law

Chinese Law

Civil Rights Litigation

Comparative Constitutional Law

Comparative Gender Equality

Constitutional Law and Economics

Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press

Constitutional

Law II: Religious Liberty

Constitutional Originalism

Constitutionalism: History and Jurisprudence

❱ 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.

Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions

Contract Theory

Dignity Law Seminar

Feminism and the Free Market

Feminist Jurisprudence

French Public and Private Law

International and Comparative Family Law

Jurisprudence

Law and Inequality

Colloquium

Law and Social Science Colloquium

Law and Theories of Justice

Law, Literature and Social Policy Seminar

Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief Introduction

Legal Theory Workshop Seminar

Liberalism and Its Critics

Personal Data Protection in Europe

Philosophical Legal Ethics

Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture

Rule of Law and Threats to It

Seminar in Ethical Values

Social Identity, Critical Theory and the Law

Social Science in Law

Sports and Games

Supreme Court From Warren to Roberts

The Supreme Court: Before, During and After Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Voice and Silence in Law and Literature

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

Technology touches our everyday lives, including our laws and policies.

Law and Technology

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.

❱ During a recent talk at the Law School, experts discussed Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s early attempts at a Twitter takeover. The speakers were Peter Lyons, a “Succession” legal consultant and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer senior counsel; Carliss Chatman, a law professor at Washington and Lee University; Chuck Cory ’82, former chairman of technology banking at Morgan Stanley; and Professor Cathy Hwang

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Advanced LawTech

Antitrust in the Digital Economy

Bioethics and the Law Seminar

Computational Text Analysis for Legal Practice

Computer Crime Law

Copyright Law

Cryptocurrency Law and Policy

Cryptocurrency Regulation

Cybersecurity Law and Policy

Digital Evidence From Theory to Practice (JAG School)

Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar

Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice

Electronic Discovery

Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities

Regulation

Food and Drug Law

Free Speech and the Digital Age Genetics and the Law

Innovating for Defense

Internet Law

Introduction to the Law of Trade Secrets

Introduction to Legal Aspects of Cyberspace Operations

Israeli Business Law and Innovation

Law and Artificial Intelligence

❱ 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 and Ethics of Biotechnology

Law and Technology

Colloquium

Law of Sea, Air and Space Operations

LawTech

National Security Law

National Security

Law and Practice

Patent Law

Personal Data Protection in Europe

Privacy

Privacy Law and Theory Seminar

Quantitative Methods

Repugnant Transactions

Science and the Courts

Startup of a Medtech Company

Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark Taboo Trades

Taxing

Multinationals in a Global Economy

Trade Secret Law

Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers

CLINICS

Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

Patent and Licensing Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ 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.”

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

LawTech Center Legal Fellows

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.”

CONTACT

LAW AND TECHNOLOGY

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/technology

CLINICS

Patent and Licensing

The semesterlong 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.

Entrepreneurial Law

Students provide legal counseling and draft basic corporate documentation for startup companies run by UVA Darden graduate business students and other entrepreneurs.

RELATED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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.

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.

❱ Deborah Hellman, a legal theorist, has written on how “big data” can compound injustice.

❱ Megan Stevenson is an economist who uses empirical research to explore criminal justice reform, including bail and algorithmic risk assessment.

❱ Kristen Eichensehr writes and teaches about cybersecurity, foreign relations, international law and national security law, including cyberattacks.

❱ Michael Livermore is an economist who uses empirical research to explore criminal justice reform, including bail and algorithmic risk assessment.

❱ 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.

Legal History

❱ Professor Cynthia Nicoletti won the 2018 Cromwell Book Prize for “Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis.”

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.

Dual-Degree J.D.-M.A. in Legal History

The heart of the program is the DualDegree (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 dual-degree program have gone on to successful careers in legal academia, and recent graduates have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Global Legal History

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 crossdisciplinary 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.

LAW SCHOOL FACULTY

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

Risa Goluboff legal history of civil rights

Alison Gocke environmental legal history

John C. Harrison constitutional history

A. E. Dick Howard constitutional history, Supreme Court

Jessica Lowe 18th- and 19th-century American legal history

Leslie Kendrick torts and freedom of speech

Edmund W. Kitch legal and economic history

Julia D. Mahoney property and constitutional law

Joy Milligan law and inequality

Caleb E. Nelson federal courts, statutory interpretation

UVA HISTORY FACULTY

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

Christa

Dierksheide

Early American history, with an emphasis on empire, race and slavery

Paul D. Halliday (with law joint appointment)

British legal history

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

law.virginia.edu/legalhistory

COURSES AND SEMINARS

American Legal History Seminar

An American Half-Century

Barbarian Law

Cause Lawyers in American History

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

Law and Inequality

Colloquium

Law and Riots

Law in American History: 20th Century

Justene Hill Edwards African American history, American economic history, history of American slavery

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 20thcentury Brazil, legal/imperial history of 17thcentury Mexico

Bradly W. Reed late imperial and modern China

Jeffrey Rossman Russia, modern Europe

Joshua M. White early modern Ottoman Empire, Mediterranean social, legal and diplomatic history

Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar

Monetary Constitution Seminar

Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds

The Institutional Supreme Court

Virginia and the Constitution World War I

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

Legal

Public Policy and Regulation

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

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.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Administrative Law

Advanced Campaign Finance

Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service

Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses)

Airline Industry and Aviation Law

American Food Governance

Animal Law

Antitrust

Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment

Balancing Public Safety and Civil Liberties: Law Enforcement Policymaking

Banking and Financial Institutions

Bioethics and Law

Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration

Bioethics and the Law Seminar

Border Policy and Politics

Business and Governmental Tort Liability

Children and the Law

Civil Rights Litigation

Climate Change Law and Policy

Constitutional Law and Economics

Corporate Social Responsibility

Cryptocurrency Law and Policy

Cryptocurrency Regulation

Death Penalty Law

Designing Democracy: Participation

Education Law Survey

Employment Law: Wage and Hour Regulation

Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation

Energy Regulation and Policy

Environmental Law

Federal Regulation of Investment Companies

Feminism and the Free Market

Food and Drug Law

Gender-Based Violence: U.S.

Law and Policy

Genetics and the Law

Government

Contract Law

Government Ethics:

Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance

Government Secrecy

Health Care

Marketplace:

Competition, Regulation and Reform

Housing Law and Poverty Seminar

Identity, Law and Politics Seminar

Immigration Law

Innovating for Defense

International Law of Migration and Refugees

International Trade

Law and Policy

Internet Law

Land Use Law

Law and Artificial Intelligence

Law and Economics

Law and Economics

Colloquium

Law and Public Service

Law and Riots

Law of Corruption

Law of Place and Place of Law

Law of the Police

Law, Inequality and Education Reform

Law, Social Work, and Social Justice in Practice and Theory

Legislation

Legislation and Regulation

Legislative Drafting and Public Policy

Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law

Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits

Medicalization and the Law

New Frontiers in Health

Law and Clinical Ethics

Parental Choice in K-12 Education

Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture

Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy

Presidential Powers

Privacy

Privacy Law and Theory Seminar

Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills

Public Utility

Regulation Seminar

Quantitative Methods

Race, Education and Opportunity

Regulation of the Political Process

Regulatory Law and Policy

Reproductive Ethics and Law

Rules

Sanctions and Boycotts

Securities Regulation

Securities Regulation (Law & Business)

Taboo Trades

The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation

Theory/Practice of Biodiversity

Conservation

Title IX: The Law and Policy of Sex

Discrimination in Education

Transactional

Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions

Understanding Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts

Urban Law and Policy

CLINICS

Community Solutions Clinic

Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic

Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic

Immigration Law Clinic

Housing Litigation Clinic

Nonprofit Clinic

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. See bit.ly/uvalawalumni

Exercises in Rulemaking—Society, Technology and the Law

Federal Government

Oversight: The Role of the Watchdog

Federal Income Tax

Medicare Practice Seminar

Monetary Constitution Seminar

Native American Law

Natural Resources

Law and Policy

State and Local Government Policy Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ Professor Saikrishna B. Prakash testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee about presidential power and questions raised by the Mueller report, which was led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller ’73

A PARTNERSHIP to help rural communities

Antonella Nicholas ’23 co-authored a paper with Professor Andrew Block identifying the systemic causes behind some of the problems facing rural Virginia.

As part of Block’s State and Local Government Policy Clinic last year, 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.”

❱ Professor Bertrall Ross leads a student lab that is exploring the use of vouchers and other incentive systems to increase outreach to lowincome voters. The lab, Designing Democracy: Participation, is sponsored by UVA Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, which Ross co-directs.

J.D.-M.P.P.

PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAM

PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION

Professor Michael A. Livermore (434) 982-6224 mlivermore@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.

FACULTY

❱ 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.

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 trial attorney, Justice Department

John C. Harrison counselor on international law, State Department; deputy assistant attorney general, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel

A. E. Dick Howard executive director of the commission that wrote Virginia’s current constitution, counsel to the General Assembly of Virginia, counselor to the governor of Virginia and a consultant to state and federal bodies, including the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

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

Karoline 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

Race

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.

and Law

THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RACE AND LAW

each year brings a visiting professor to teach a short course.

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

COURSES AND SEMINARS

American Legal History

Seminar

Asian Americans and the Law

Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination

Law

Civil Rights

Litigation

The Civil War and the Constitution

Criminal Adjudication

Criminal Investigation

Criminal Procedure

Survey

Critical Race Theory

Designing

Democracy: Participation

Education Law Survey

Employment

Discrimination

Family Law

Identity, Law and Politics

Seminar

Immigration

Law and Policy

International Human Rights Law

Land Use Law

Latinos and the Law

Law and Inequality

Colloquium

Law of Place and Place of Law

Law, Inequality and Education Reform

Native American Law

Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture

Poverty Law, Advocacy and Policy

Race and Criminal Justice

Race and Slavery on UVA’s North Grounds

Race, Education and Opportunity

Race, Law and Democracy

Racial Ambiguity Blues

Racial Justice and Law

Regulation of the Political Process

Reparations: Identity, Law and Politics

Reproductive Rights and Justice

Social Science in Law

Urban Law and Policy

CLINICS

International Human Rights Law Clinic

Project for Informed Reform Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 school years. Not all courses are offered every year.

❱ Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, editor of the book “A Federal Right to Education,” leads the Center for the Study of Race and Law She is an expert on how federal and state law and policy can close educational opportunity gaps.

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.

❱ Elaine Jones ’70, the first Black woman to graduate from UVA Law and the first woman to lead the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, recently joined Dean Risa Goluboff in speaking about her career during a ceremony marking the hanging of her portrait at UVA Law.

New Fellowship Supports Scholarship On Race

Allen’s UCLA dissertation, “A Web of Punishment: Race, Place, and School Policing,” examines the role and authority of school police officers, and why Black students are most vulnerable to negative interactions in low-income Black neighborhoods and schools.

“Boys of color made up 76% of all student involvement with the local school police department, and middle school- and elementary school-age children accounted for one in four of the total arrests,” he said. “Students as young as 8 were being arrested for very minor instances of misbehavior, such as just speaking too loudly.”

Allen said his research centers on two questions: What can the public learn about the structure of American public education and criminal justice systems? And how can we better understand how law and policy shape these larger safety goals within schools?

“It is important to understand the perspective of all stakeholders,” he said. “This includes students, parents, teachers, school police officers and local policymakers.”

FACULTY UNCOVER NEW INSIGHTS

Terry Allen, whose research focuses on the role of police in schoolchildren’s lives, is the first Race, Place and Equity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law School.

❱ Kim Forde-Mazrui’s scholarship focuses on equal protection, especially involving race and sexual orientation.

❱ 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.

❱ Joy Milligan studies the intersection of law and inequality, with a particular focus on race-based economic inequality, and federal officials’ long-term role in extending racial segregation.

❱ Bertrall Ross focuses on constitutional law and theory, election law, and legislation and statutory interpretation, and is concerned with the inclusion of marginalized communities in administrative and political processes.

Tax Law

❱ Professor Ruth Mason, who serves as director for the Virginia Center for Tax Law, is an expert in federalism, tax discrimination and cross-border taxation. Her work on comparative fiscal federalism has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and in the opinion of an advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union

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.

❱ 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

VIRGINIA TAX REVIEW

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.

EVENTS

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements

Corporate Tax

Estate Planning: Principles and Practice

Federal Income Tax

International Tax Practicum

International Taxation

Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice

Partnership Tax

Practical Trust and Estate Administration

Quantitative Methods

Tax Discrimination

Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar

Tax Treaties and Other

❱ 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 cuttingedge 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.

International Tax Topics

Transfer Pricing

CLINIC

Nonprofit Clinic

These courses represent the 2020-23 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 a 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.

The CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM at UVA Law School is one of the most successful among top law schools and connects students with a wide range of job opportunities across the nation and abroad.

Career Development

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

NO. 1 in the country for the percentage of Class of 2022 graduates (95.4%) in full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar passage, according to American Bar Association data.

LAW’S CAREER PLACEMENT SUCCESS

NO. 3 in Above the Law’s 2023 law school rankings, which focus on employment outcomes.

NO. 5 in the country in the percentage of Class of 2022 graduates who went directly to firms of 100 or more attorneys or to federal clerkships, according to American Bar Association data (based on full-time, long-term jobs).

NO. 2 in the percentage of recent alumni working at the top 10 highest-grossing law firms, according to OnlineU.

NO. 3 in the number of chief legal officers at the nation’s top 500 companies, according to a survey by Chambers Associate.

99 Virginia has graduates in 99 of the American Lawyer top 100 firms (as of July 2023).

WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO CLASSES OF 2020-22

Bajracharya ’23

Hometown: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

Education: Barnard College, religion and Asian and Middle Eastern cultures; Syracuse University, M.A. in religion

Next: Clerk, Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Office, Executive Office of Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice

“I spent my 2L summer with the Department of Labor’s New York Regional Solicitor’s Office and loved it. I got to see and be involved with the wide range of work that regional DOL offices take on, from wage and hour, to health and safety, to employee benefits work.”

FIRST-YEAR

❱ Sujata

❱ After law school, Jess Feinberg ’21 served as UVA’s 2021 Ruff Fellow for the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

REPRESENTATIVE EMPLOYERS CLASSES OF 2020-22

UNITED STATES

ARIZONA

PHOENIX

Husch Blackwell

CALIFORNIA

COTATI

Animal Legal Defense

Fund

IRVINE

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

LOS ANGELES

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Hogan Lovells

Howarth & Smith

Jones Day

Latham & Watkins

Massumi + Consoli

McGuireWoods

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Proskauer Rose

Sidley Austin

Sullivan & Cromwell

MENLO PARK

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Hogan Lovells

Latham & Watkins

O’Melveny & Myers

NEWPORT BEACH

Dechert

OAKLAND

National Center for Youth Law

PACIFICA

Pacific Juvenile Defender Center

PALO ALTO

Baker Botts

Cooley

Jones Day

Paul Hastings

Pillsbury Winthrop

Shaw Pittman

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Wilson Sonsini

Goodrich & Rosati

REDWOOD CITY

Goodwin

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

Covington & Burling

Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California

Goodwin

Hogan Lovells

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Paul Weiss Rifkind

Wharton & Garrison

Peregrine Technologies

Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt

Quinn Emanuel

Urquhart & Sullivan

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps

SANTA BARBARA

Santa Barbara County

Public Defender’s Office

SANTA MONICA

Bryan Cave Leighton

Paisner

COLORADO

COLORADO SPRINGS

Colorado Public Defender

DENVER

Colorado Public Defender

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

CONNECTICUT

HARTFORD

Connecticut

Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

DELAWARE

WILMINGTON

Abrams & Bayliss

Richards Layton & Finger

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Akin Gump Strauss

Hauer & Feld

Arent Fox

Arnold & Porter

Baker Hostetler

Baker McKenzie

Bracewell

Buckley

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

Clifford Chance

Cooley

Covington & Burling

Cozen O’Connor

Crowell & Moring

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Dechert

Dentons

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Eversheds Sutherland

Everytown for Gun Safety

Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Justice Branch

Freshfields Bruckhaus

Deringer

Fried Frank Harris

Shriver & Jacobson

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Goodwin

Hogan Lovells

Hollingsworth

Hudson Institute

Hughes Hubbard & Reed

Internal Revenue Service

Jenner & Block Jones Day

Kelley Drye & Warren

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Klein Hornig

Latham & Watkins

Linklaters

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo

Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Morris Manning & Martin

Morrison & Foerster

Norton Rose Fulbright

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

O’Melveny & Myers

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

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

Reed Smith

Reno & Cavanaugh

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Schulte Roth & Zabel

Shearman & Sterling

Sheppard Mullin

Richter & Hampton

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Squire Patton Boggs

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

❱ Ronald Beach ’21 joined Baker McKenzie in Chicago after law school.

“My summer jobs exposed me to work in the public and private sectors. After my first year of law school, I worked in the Chicago office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. After my second year of law school, I worked in the Chicago office of Baker McKenzie. While I enjoyed both experiences, tapping into the UVA Law alumni network in Chicago made those experiences better than I could have ever imagined.”

U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel

U.S. Government Accountability Office

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

ZwillGen

FLORIDA

MIAMI

Bilzin Sumberg Baena

Price & Axelrod

White & Case

TAMPA

Foley & Lardner

GEORGIA

ATLANTA

Alston & Bird

Arnall Golden Gregory

Bryan Cave Leighton

Paisner

Jones Day

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)

King & Spalding

Morris Manning & Martin

National Labor Relations Board

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Troutman Pepper

Hamilton Sanders

IDAHO

BOISE

Parsons Behle & Latimer

ILLINOIS

CHICAGO

Baker McKenzie

Ice Miller

Jenner & Block

Kirkland & Ellis

Legal Council for Health

Justice

Sidley Austin

Winston & Strawn

INDIANA

INDIANAPOLIS

Faegre Drinker

LAFAYETTE

Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office

LOUISIANA

NEW ORLEANS

Liskow & Lewis

MARYLAND

ANNAPOLIS

CleanBay Renewables Inc.

Maryland Office of the Public Defender

BALTIMORE

Maryland Office of the Public Defender

SILVER SPRING

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

MASSACHUSETTS

BOSTON

Center for Law and Education

Choate Hall & Stewart

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

Goodwin

Jones Day

Kirkland & Ellis

McDermott Will & Emery

Ropes & Gray

WilmerHale

LAWRENCE

Northeast Legal Aid Inc.

MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL

Larson King

MISSOURI

KANSAS CITY

Graves Garrett

NEBRASKA

OMAHA

Koley Jessen

NEW HAMPSHIRE

CONCORD

New Hampshire Public Defender

NEW JERSEY

HACKENSACK

Cole Schotz Newark

Education Law Center

TRENTON

New Jersey Attorney General

NEW YORK

ARMONK

Boies Schiller Flexner

BROOKLYN

Housing Works Inc.

KEW GARDENS

Queens District Attorney’s Office

NEW YORK

Akin Gump Strauss

Hauer & Feld

Allen & Overy

Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

Clifford Chance Cooley

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine & Moore

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Desmarais

Evercore

Freshfields Bruckhaus

Deringer

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Goodwin

Hogan Lovells

Jones Day

Kaplan Hecker & Fink

Kasowitz Benson Torres

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kostelanetz & Fink

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Latham & Watkins

Linklaters

Manatt Phelps & Phillips

Mayer Brown

Milbank

Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Morrison & Foerster

Neighborhood

Defender Service of Harlem

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

Schulte Roth & Zabel

Selendy Gay Elsberg

Seward & Kissel

Shearman & Sterling

Sheppard Mullin

Richter & Hampton

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Sullivan & Cromwell

Troutman Pepper

Hamilton Sanders

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

White & Case

Willkie Farr & Gallagher

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Goodrich & Rosati

Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch

NORTH CAROLINA

CHARLOTTE

Alston & Bird

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

McGuireWoods

Moore & Van Allen

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy

PEMBROKE Legal Aid of North Carolina

RALEIGH

Disability Rights of North Carolina

McGuireWoods

Smith Anderson Blount

Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan

Wyrick, Robbins, Yates & Ponton

OHIO

CINCINNATI

Taft Stettinius & Hollister

CLEVELAND

BakerHostetler Jones Day

COLUMBUS

Gordon Rees Scully

Mansukhani Jones Day

PENNSYLVANIA

NORRISTOWN

Montgomery County

District Attorney’s Office

PHILADELPHIA

Cozen O’Connor

Dechert

Morgan Lewis & Bockius

National Labor Relations Board, Region 4

Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office

Public Interest Law Center

PITTSBURGH

Jones Day

K&L Gates

McKinsey & Co.

Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Reed Smith

WARRINGTON

Fox Rothschild

WAYNE

Hewlett Packard

Enterprise

SOUTH CAROLINA

CHARLESTON

Southern Environmental Law Center

TENNESSEE

MEMPHIS

Pietranglo Smith

Shelby County District

Attorney General’s Office

NASHVILLE

Bass Berry & Sims

Office of the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender

TEXAS

AUSTIN

DLA Piper

Husch Blackwell

Thompson & Knight

DALLAS

Baker Botts

Baker McKenzie

Haynes and Boone

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews Kurth

Jackson Walker

Jones Day

Katten Muchin

Rosenman

Kirkland & Ellis

McKool Smith

Norton Rose Fulbright

Perkins Coie

Shearman & Sterling

Sidley Austin

Thompson & Knight

Vinson & Elkins

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

HOUSTON

Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing

Bain & Company

Baker Botts

Baker Hostetler

Bracewell

City of Houston Legal

Department

Hogan Lovells

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Mayer Brown

Norton Rose Fulbright

Schiffer Hicks Johnson

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Vinson & Elkins

White & Case

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

CHARLOTTESVILLE

Atelerix Life Sciences

Inc.

Charlottesville-

Albemarle Public Defender’s Office

MichieHamlett

Raynor Law Office

FALLS CHURCH

Legal Aid Justice Center

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 LEE

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

RESTON

Cooley

Finnegan

RICHMOND

Hunton Andrews Kurth

McGuireWoods

Richmond

Commonwealth’s

Attorney’s Office

Richmond Public Defender’s Office

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders

Vinson & Elkins

Williams Mullen

ROANOKE

Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley

Tysons Corner

Venable

VIRGINIA BEACH

Virginia Beach City Public Defender’s Office

WARRENTON

Warrenton Public Defender’s Office

WASHINGTON

SEATTLE

King County

Department of Public Defense

Perkins Coie

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

INTERNATIONAL

CHILE

FUTALEUFU

Futaleufu Riverkeeper

CHINA

BEIJING

Davis Polk & Wardwell

ENGLAND

LONDON

Clifford Chance

Latham & Watkins

Withersworldwide

❱ After graduation, John Ghazoul ’21 joined Jones Day in New York.

Launching Your Career

“We team up with the students on all parts of their job search. We guide students in identifying employment options that will be personally and professionally fulfilling, work with them on their resumes and cover letters, assist them in preparing for interviews and then educate them on skills that will aid them in the workplace.”

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 long-term 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 employmentrelated 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 on-Grounds and virtual interview programs.

—KEVIN DONOVAN

Senior Assistant Dean, Career Development

CAREER COUNSELORS AND OTHER FACULTY HELP STUDENTS PREPARE FOR LIFE AFTER LAW SCHOOL

OFFICE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE

Gallagher, where she focused on private equity/ venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate and securities matters. She also served as a member of the firm’s professional personnel/legal recruiting, professional development and marketing committees.

KEVIN DONOVAN

Senior Assistant Dean, Career Development

J.D., University of Pennsylvania

B.A., Dartmouth College

Kevin Donovan leads the Office of Private Practice and counsels students and alumni on general career choices and on pursuing positions with law firms. Before joining the school in 2009, Donovan was a litigation partner in the Philadelphia office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, where his practice focused on complex tort litigation, including class actions and national serial litigation. While at Morgan Lewis, he was the firm’s pro bono chair from 2003-08, was heavily involved in recruiting and participated in running three summer associate programs. After law school, Donovan clerked for U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in the Northern District of Ohio.

LAUREN PARKER

Director, Office of 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 in state and federal courts, and in investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission. Parker also worked with the ACLU of Maryland and with the Legal Counsel for the Elderly representing clients in diverse pro bono matters.

OFFICE OF JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS

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, where she worked in the Office of International Affairs.

MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER

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.

LEAH GOULD

Assistant Dean for Public Service

Director, Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center

J.D., University of Colorado School of Law

B.S., George Washington University

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. Under Emery’s direction, the Pro Bono Program in a typical year coordinates pro bono projects with more than 100 employers nationwide. Emery was a board member for the Legal Aid Justice Center for more than 15 years.

MARIT SLAUGHTER

Senior Director, Office of Private Practice

J.D., B.A., University of Virginia

Marit Slaughter counsels students and alumni on a broad array of career choices, with a focus on law firm positions. She works with students to evaluate practice areas, firms and legal markets, and helps students and alumni develop strategies to compete effectively for the positions they target. Slaughter previously was an associate in the New York office of Willkie Farr &

RUTH PAYNE

Senior Director of 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

KIMBALL GILMER

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.

Leah Gould leads the school’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. She previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey, where she prosecuted a variety of federal criminal cases. Before practicing law, Gould served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After law school, Gould clerked for Judge Reed C. O’Connor on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, then joined the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s New York City field office through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. The Federal Law Enforcement Foundation named Gould a 2020 Prosecutor of the Year for her work leading an international narcotics and cryptocurrency money laundering case.

AMANDA YALE

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 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

EXTERNSHIPS

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

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

A. SPRIGHTLEY RYAN

Professor of Law, General Faculty Director of Externships

J.D., University of California at Berkeley

B.A., Yale University

Sprightley Ryan directs the externships program at Virginia Law. Externships allow students to do full-time or part-time legal work for public service employers while earning academic credit. As director, Ryan counsels students who are in the program or who are considering an externship, and teaches a seminar to students in the UVA Law in DC externship program that helps participants make connections between legal theory and practice. Ryan 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.

Judicial Clerkships

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CLASSES OF 2020-22

U.S. SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Amy Coney Barrett

Neil M. Gorsuch

Brett M. Kavanaugh

U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL

1ST CIRCUIT

BOSTON

Julie Rikelman

CONCORD, N.H.

Jeffrey R. Howard

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Gustavo A. Gelpi

2ND CIRCUIT

NEW YORK

Dennis Jacobs

Robert D. Sack

3RD CIRCUIT

WILMINGTON, DEL.

Jane Richards Roth

NEWARK, N.J.

Patty Shwartz

DUNCANSVILLE, PA.

D. Brooks Smith

PHILADELPHIA

L. Felipe Restrepo

PITTSBURGH

Cindy K. Chung

Thomas M. Hardiman

Peter J. Phipps

4TH CIRCUIT

BALTIMORE

Paul V. Niemeyer

BETHESDA, MD.

Pamela A. Harris

ASHEVILLE, N.C.

Allison J. Rushing

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Albert Diaz

COLUMBIA, S.C.

Julius N. Richardson

GREENVILLE, S.C.

A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.

SPARTANBURG, S.C.

Henry F. Floyd

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

J. Harvie Wilkinson III

RICHMOND, VA.

Roger L. Gregory

5TH CIRCUIT

BATON ROUGE

Stuart Kyle Duncan

NEW ORLEANS

Edith Brown Clement

Kurt D. Engelhardt

SHREVEPORT, LA.

Carl E. Stewart

JACKSON, MISS.

Leslie H. Southwick

AUSTIN, TEXAS

Andrew S. Oldham

Don R. Willett

DALLAS

Catharina Haynes

HOUSTON

Gregg J. Costa

Jennifer Walker Elrod

Edith Hollan Jones

Jerry E. Smith

SAN ANTONIO

Patrick E. Higginbotham

6TH CIRCUIT

COVINGTON, KY.

Amul R. Thapar

LONDON, KY.

Eugene E. Siler Jr.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

John K. Bush

ANN ARBOR, MICH.

Raymond M. Kethledge

Joan L. Larsen

DETROIT

Eric L. Clay

CINCINNATI

John B. Nalbandian

CLEVELAND

Karen Nelson Moore

COLUMBUS, OHIO

R. Guy Cole Jr.

Eric E. Murphy

Chad A. Readler

Jeffrey S. Sutton

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Julia Smith Gibbons

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Jane Branstetter Stranch

7TH CIRCUIT

SOUTH BEND, IND.

Kenneth F. Ripple

MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Diane S. Sykes

8TH CIRCUIT

MINNEAPOLIS

David R. Stras

KANSAS CITY, MO.

Duane Benton

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.

Jonathan A. Kobes

9TH CIRCUIT

PHOENIX

Bridget S. Bade

PASADENA, CALIF.

Daniel P. Collins

SAN DIEGO

Patrick J. Bumatay

SAN FRANCISCO

Daniel A. Bress

IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO

Ryan D. Nelson

10TH CIRCUIT

ROSWELL, N.M.

Bobby R. Baldock

OKLAHOMA CITY

Jerome A. Holmes

SALT LAKE CITY

Carolyn B. McHugh

11TH CIRCUIT

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Kevin C. Newsom

Willam H. Pryor

MONTGOMERY, ALA.

Andrew L. Brasher

MIAMI

Babara Lagoa

TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

Robert J. Luck

ATLANTA

Elizabeth L. Branch

Britt C. Grant

Jill A. Pryor

ARMED FORCES

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Liam P. Hardy

M. Tia Johnson

Gregory E. Maggs

Kevin A. Ohlson

D.C. CIRCUIT

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Karen LeCraft Henderson

Gregory G. Katsas

Florence Y. Pan

Neomi Rao

P. Srikanth Srinivasan

Robert L. Wilkins

FEDERAL CIRCUIT

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Raymond T. Chen

FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS

ALABAMA

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

MONTGOMERY

Emily C. Marks

W. Keith Watkins

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

HUNTSVILLE

Liles C. Burke

ARIZONA

DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

PHOENIX

Michael T. Liburdi

ARKANSAS

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

LITTLE ROCK

Kristine G. Baker

CALIFORNIA

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO

John A. Mendez

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND

Haywood S. Gilliam

Yvonne

Gonzales-Rogers

Jeffrey S. White

SAN FRANCISCO

Vince G. Chhabria

Jon S. Tigar

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN DIEGO

James E. Simmons Jr.

CONNECTICUT

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT

BRIDGEPORT

Stefan R. Underhill

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

John D. Bates

James E. Boasburg

Tanya S. Chutkan

Rudolph Contreras

Zia Faruqui

Timothy J. Kelly

Royce C. Lamberth

Trevor N. McFadden

Amit P. Mehta

Carl J. Nichols

Reggie B. Walton

Nina Y. Wang

U.S. COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS

Ryan T. Holte

Eleni M. Roumel

Stephen S. Schwartz

U.S. TAX COURT

Lewis R. Carluzzo

Kathleen M. Kerrigan

L. Paige Marvel

Richard T. Morrison

Cary Douglas Pugh

DELAWARE

DISTRICT OF DELAWARE

WILMINGTON

Colm F. Connolly

FLORIDA

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

TAMPA

Steven D. Merryday

Kathryn Kimball Mizelle

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

FORT PIERCE

Aileen M. Cannon

MIAMI

Cecilia M. Altonaga

GEORGIA

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA

ALBANY

Leslie Abrams Gardner

MACON

Tilman E. Self III

GUAM DISTRICT OF GUAM

HAGÅTÑA

Frances M. TydingcoGatewood

ILLINOIS

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

CHICAGO

Manish S. Shah

INDIANA

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA

SOUTH BEND

Jon E. DeGuilio

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA

INDIANAPOLIS

James P. Hanlon

Katie Barber ’15 and Megan Lacy ’10 clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018-19.

Student Life

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.

❱ Aspen Ono ’23

HOMETOWN: I moved a lot as a child, with stops along the way in Madison, Wisconsin; Missoula, Montana; and Atlanta.

EDUCATION: Emory University, environmental science; University of British Columbia, M.A. in resources, environment and sustainability.

NEXT: Clerk for U.S. Judge Gina Mendez-Miro at the District of Puerto Rico, then for U.S. Judge Robert Ballou at the 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 won’t lie, law school is stressful. You will lose sleep, dry out hundreds of highlighters, and stress-eat thousands of free popcorn and goldfish snacks from Student Affairs. But at UVA Law, you’ll be facing those challenges with a built-in family and team. From people cheering you on after a hard cold call to grabbing coffee with a classmate with whom you fundamentally disagree, the people at this school will respectfully challenge you and raise you up.”

The collegial spirit of UVA Law in action: 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?

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Advocates for Life at Virginia Law

Agape

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Asian Pacific

American Law Students Association

Barristers United Black Law Students Association

Child Advocacy Research and Education

Clean Law Pledge

Common Law Grounds

Domestic Violence Project

Extramural Moot Court

The 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

Lile Moot Court Board

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

Orthodox Christian Law Student Association

Peer Advisors

Philip C. Jessup

International Moot Court Team

Plaintiffs’ Law

Association at the University of Virginia

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Journal of Law & Politics

Virginia

Environmental Law Journal

Virginia Journal of Criminal Law

Virginia Journal of International Law

Public Interest

Law Association

Rex E. Lee

Law Society

Rivanna Investments

South Asian Law Student Association

Southeastern Wahoos

Street Law

St. Thomas More Society

Virginia Bar Association Law

School Council

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

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

Women of Color

Virginia Journal of Law & Technology

Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law

Virginia Law & Business Review

Virginia Law

Review

Virginia

Sports and Entertainment

Law Journal

Virginia Tax Review

Hometown: Lawrenceville, Georgia

Education: Kennesaw State University, political science

Next: White & Case, Houston

“During my first year, I served as a Community Law Fellow and participated in the Nelson Mandela International Negotiations Competition as a member of the Black Law Students Association. As a second-year, I was a Peer Advisor, the vice president of career development for Lone Star Lawyers, and a professional programs co-chair for Virginia Law Women, where I hosted our annual Women in BigLaw event. As a thirdyear, I’ve focused on informal mentoring for current 1Ls while taking time to explore Charlottesville.”

Fostering Diversity and

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.

❱ Chanel Holmes ’23

❱ Retired Staff Sgt. Bryan Blaylock ’23 spent several tours in the Marines overseas. His service dog, Ronga, was a steadying partner at UVA Law.

“Diversity is crucial for so many reasons: for establishing genuine dialogue across difference, for achieving true equality, for ensuring access for all to law school and the legal profession, and for maintaining a legal system that represents and mediates conflicts between differing interests, goals and perspectives.”

—Dean Risa Goluboff

a Sense of Belonging

Roadmap Scholars Initiative

Launched in 2022, UVA Law’s ROADMAP SCHOLARS INITIATIVE helps firstgeneration and low-income undergraduate students prepare for applying to elite law schools and entering the legal profession.

The initiative is distinguished by its summer in residence at UVA followed by a legal internship, along with generous financial and counseling support throughout. During the summer of 2023, the first two cohorts, pictured, converged at the Law School. FOR MORE INFORMATION: law.virginia.edu/roadmap

BUILDING COMMUNITY

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.

Community Fellows

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.

The Peer Advisor Program

Through the Peer Advisor program, second- and third-year law students help entering students acclimate to law school by offering friendship and support.

Common Law Grounds

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:

Advocates for Disability Rights

Agape

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

Black Law Students Association

The Federalist Society

Jewish Law Students Association

Korean American Law Student Association

Lambda Law Alliance

Latin American Law Organization

Law Christian Fellowship

Law Republicans at UVA

Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association

Muslim Law Students Association

Older Wiser Law Students

Orthodox Christian Law Student Association

Rex E. Lee Law Society

South Asian Law Student Association

St. Thomas More Society

Virginia Law Democrats

Virginia Law Families & Partners

Virginia Law

First-Generation Professionals

Virginia Law

Veterans

Virginia Law Women

Women of Color

CONTACT

Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Equity

Mark C. Jefferson

(434) 924-9294

mjefferson@law.virginia.edu

law.virginia.edu/diversity

“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, as a member of our community and as an individual, to flourish and succeed.”

❱“There are issues that are unique to the first generation, and we’re starting to spark conversation about it not just among students, but also among the faculty,” said Jenny Kwun ’21, who co-founded Virginia Law First-Generation Professionals in 2018.

FINDING COMMON GROUND

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 ExperienceBased 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

Reflecting on the Rise in Violence

Against Asian Americans, featuring UVA Law faculty and sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and Virginia Law Women

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

Serving the LGBT Community in Big Law, with attorneys from “Big Law” firms

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.

❱ Judge Roger L. Gregory kicks off Black History Month.

❱ Students join a community Iftar dinner.

❱ Community Fellows participate in an ice-breaker.

Located just two hours southwest of Washington, D.C., Charlottesville has attracted national

accolades for its ideal marriage of urban amenities and a gorgeous natural setting.

The City

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 smalltown 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

www.charlottesville.org

Dining

“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.

DINING IN OR NEAR THE LAW SCHOOL

❱“I love dining out, and after three years, I have a few favorite spots in Charlottesville.

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

I love Belle for breakfast and lunch, Continental Divide for decent Mexican and delicious margaritas, and Pearl Island for consistently excellent Caribbean food.”

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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: law.virginia.edu/dining

Law School Favorites

Fleurie fine

French cuisine

Peter Chang China

Grill Chinese dishes

Bang! Asian Fusion tapas

Ten Japanese food hotspot

The Local gourmet American dishes

Himalayan Fusion Indian and Tibetan dishes

Tavola local, seasonal Italian cuisine

The Alley Light French shared plates and craft cocktails

Bodo’s Bagels family-friendly fast food

Mas Spanish tapas

— Emily Hockett ’22

and Outings

COMPELLING EXCURSIONS

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, Orlando and Philadelphia, 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.

❱ “C’ville is the center of the country’s fastest-rising wine region, a place that marries Californian expressiveness with old-world finesse, subtlety and charm.”

— Professor Dan Ortiz

The Arts

RECENT ARTISTS

Cirque du Soleil 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 Pilobolus 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, Dwight Yoakam, The Flaming Lips and Arcade Fire 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.

Sports and

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.

❱ Law student Ashley Anumba ’24 is a world-class discus competitor.

Recreation

❱ “The areas surrounding Charlottesville are gorgeous. Whether it be a trip to Shenandoah National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway or just the local Rivanna Trail, there is no shortage of outdoor activities. UVA Law even has an Outdoors at Virginia Law organization.”

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.

Fitness Facilities

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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: recsports.virginia.edu

Virginia Sports Tickets

For regular-season home athletic events, students simply present a valid UVA student identification card for admission at student rates.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: virginiasports.com/student-tickets

THE AREA is home to some of the best camping and hiking sites in the nation, including portions of the Appalachian Trail.

— Shruthi Prabhu

’19

Schools and Family

Preschools and Daycare

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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: law.virginia.edu/schools

Public Schools

The Charlottesville-Albemarle 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.

Private Schools

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.

Activities for Families

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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

law.virginia.edu/cville charlottesvillefamily.com

Finding a Home

The Charlottesville area features historic and modern homes and apartments 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.

Student Housing Options

Most students choose to live in off-Grounds apartments or houses, many of which are within a 5-10-minute walk of the Law School. On-Grounds housing includes apartments for singles and families, and the historic Range, a graduate community for single students.

MLS listings: www.caar.com

Rental and student housing, both on- and off-Grounds: law.virginia.edu/housing

GETTING AROUND

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.

law.virginia.edu/cville

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PLACES TO STAY

Like most college towns, Charlottesville has numerous places to spend the night, including a new site (above)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.

For more information: law.virginia.edu/hotels