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The Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law has had a busy start to the year, with six clients released from prison, pardoned or both since January.

University of Virginia School of Law student Meredith Kilburn ’22 will help address school disciplinary practices as the 21st Powell Fellow in Legal Services.

After several years of investigation and advocacy by the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, client Lamar Barnes was released from prison and received an absolute pardon.

A client represented by University of Virginia School of Law professor Kelly Orians was released from prison after a court agreed to a plea deal that garnered support of the victim’s father.

Eric Weakley, a member of the so-called “Culpeper Three” and a client of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, has received an absolute pardon.

Natalia Heguaburo ’23, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses her path to law school and how her interest in advocating for minority rights has only grown.

Kelly Orians will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in January as the director of a new clinic helping the formerly incarcerated.

University of Virginia School of Law alumna Elysse Stolpe ’14, a Waynesboro city prosecutor who specializes in sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence cases, also serves as a commissioner on the Child USA Game Over Commission in the wake of the Larry Nassar abuse revelations.

New courses offered this winter and spring at the University of Virginia School of Law include Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, Barbarian Law, and New Frontiers in Neuroethics and Law.

Professors John Duffy and Rich Hynes of the University of Virginia School of Law say in a new paper that government can make bail more equitable by subsidizing it, as it already does jails.

A new course offered by the University of Virginia School of Law in the spring will help students learn to advocate on behalf of Spanish speakers.

The Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law is welcoming a new face and promoting a familiar one.

Emerson Stevens, a client of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, received an absolute pardon Friday.

Joey Carter, a client of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, received an absolute pardon Tuesday.

TV news journalist Dennis Ting is unclipping his microphone to join the incoming first-year class at the University of Virginia School of Law.

New courses offered this fall at the University of Virginia School of Law include Lessons From COVID-19, Repugnant Transactions, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

A University of Virginia School of Law Innocence Project client, Bobbie Morman Jr., was granted an absolute pardon Wednesday.

Cat Guerrier ’21 is this year’s University of Virginia School of Law recipient of the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Outstanding Clinical Student Award.