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Two professors look at why advocates are using the language of medicine to address civil rights concerns on the new episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.

Two professors at the University of Virginia School of Law join the “Common Law” podcast to discuss how their research into the past, from the Civil War era to the 1960s, helps us understand today’s legal landscape.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson took her seminar students to the U.S. Supreme Court to meet her law school roommate, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The University of Virginia School of Law’s Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team has advanced to the international rounds, among other achievements and recognition for members of the Law School community.

As a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an expert in comparative constitutionalism and the U.S. Supreme Court, A. E. Dick Howard ’61 has shaped constitutional law for 60 years — inside and outside the classroom. Not many living scholars can claim to have had a hand in drafting

Eleven judges will be teaching classes during the 2023-24 academic year at the University of Virginia School of Law.

The new Education Rights Institute at the University of Virginia School of Law aims to help eliminate racial and class disparities in K-12 education. The institute, led by Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson and supported by a $4.9 million gift, will mark its launch with an Oct. 16 event.

University of Virginia School of Law faculty discuss news-making rulings from the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court term.

Members of the University of Virginia School of Law community have recently been singled out for excellence. Among the accolades, Professor Frederick Schauer has won the 2023 Scribes Book Award for “The Proof.”

University of Virginia School of Law professor Dan Ortiz, who is stepping down from leading the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, reflects on his 17 years at the helm.

On the eve of his retirement, University of Virginia School of Law professor Douglas Laycock, the foremost expert on religious civil liberties and the law of remedies, looks back on his 50-year career.

A new podcast, “Legal Knowledge,” produced by the Arthur J. Morris Law Library’s Special Collections department, will explore the history of the University of Virginia School of Law.

Dean Risa Goluboff of the University of Virginia School of Law has been appointed to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, which continues to publish the multivolume work documenting the history of the court.

A symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will explore how a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has shaped clashes over equity in education, both past and present.

With two U.S. presidents now facing special counsel investigations and one facing legal jeopardy on a host of other matters, University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna B. Prakash explains the differing visions of presidential immunity.

On the heels of the Dobbs decision and a midterm election wave of state-level change, students in one class at the University of Virginia School of Law are examining the Virginia Constitution with a critical — and feminist — eye.

Haiti’s “odious debt” to France in the wake of the island country’s revolution was an enormous financial blow that still reverberates today, says Professor Mitu Gulati on the season finale of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.

New courses offered this fall at the University of Virginia School of Law include Chinese Law, Law and Artificial Intelligence, and Property, the Police Power and Emergencies.