Monday, March 18, 2024
Connect with current PILA Board members and other public interest students while learning about upcoming events, various Board roles, and what the PILA Board application process looks like. Food will be provided.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Virginia Law One for the World is encouraging students to pledge 1% of their future income to effective charities aimed at eliminating global poverty.
The Virginia Department of Education recently released model policies that, according to the ACLU of Virginia, “seek to erase transgender and non-binary youth from the classrooms.” This panel will explore the impact of the model policies, the current wave of anti-trans legislation around the country and the effect the current climate has on patients and families.
The panel, moderated by Professor Naomi Cahn, will include Wyatt Rolla ’13, senior transgender rights attorney with the ACLU of Virginia; Mary Sullivan, adolescent advocacy and outreach program director at UVA Teen and Young Adult Health Center; and Professor Andrew Block. Food will be provided.
Representatives from UVA Law’s clinics, the Externships Program, skills courses and Student Records will be available to discuss the wide variety of experiential learning opportunities at UVA Law. The fair will help students plan how to hone their professional skills before entering practice, find out what to expect from the experience, ask about requirements and responsibilities, and learn how they can have an impact on their clients. Snacks will be provided.
Participating programs and curricular options include Externships, Student Records, Clinical Programs and Legal Aid Justice Center Clinics. Participating clinics include: Appellate Litigation, Civil Rights, Community Organization and Social Enterprise, Criminal Defense, Decarceration and Community Reentry, Economic and Consumer Justice, Entrepreneurial Law, Environmental Law and Community Engagement, Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy, First Amendment, Health and Disability Law, Holistic Youth Defense, Housing Litigation, Immigration, Innocence Project, International Human Rights, Nonprofit, Patent & Licensing, Project for Informed Reform, Prosecution, State and Local Government Policy, Supreme Court Litigation, Workplace Rights and Youth Advocacy.
Leo E. Strine Jr. is of counsel in the corporate department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Prior to joining the firm, he was the chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 2014-19. Before becoming chief justice, he served on the Delaware Court of Chancery as chancellor since 2011 and as a vice chancellor since 1998.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
All proceeds support public interest students that receive PILA+ grants.
Virginia Law One for the World is encouraging students to pledge 1% of their future income to effective charities aimed at eliminating global poverty.
Open to faculty
Planning to work in direct client services as a public defender or civil legal aid lawyer? Those lawyers might experience secondary/vicarious trauma. Secondary/vicarious trauma refers to the distress people might feel from empathetic engagement with clients who have experienced their own traumas. In this event, Dr. Kate Gibson and Karen Painter from CAPS will discuss realistic strategies to prevent or cope with secondary/vicarious trauma. Food will be provided with RSVP in Symplicity.
Kashmir Hill will discuss her 2023 book, “Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It.”
In Hill’s book, she tracks the rise of Clearview AI, the company that scraped 40 billion images from the web to build a powerful facial recognition app for use by the police. She details how the company’s advantage was an ethical breakthrough, not a technological one, because other entities can replicate what they've done, and some already have. Hill will discuss how we got to a world without anonymity and what we can do about it.
Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times, where she writes about the intersection of privacy and technology. She covers topics such as facial-recognition technology, artificial-intelligence surveillance, genetic analysis and online reputation.
Before joining the Times in 2019, Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion, Forbes Magazine and the legal news site Above the Law. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
She attended Duke University and earned a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.
University of New Mexico professor Margaret Montoya will discuss her paper “Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories with Legal Discourse.”
Thursday, March 21, 2024
All proceeds support public interest students that receive PILA Plus grants.
Virginia Law One for the World is encouraging students to pledge 1% of their future income to effective charities aimed at eliminating global poverty.
Friday, March 22, 2024
The symposium will feature expert practitioners and scholars, with Patagonia General Counsel Hilary Dessouky delivering the keynote. Speakers will discuss current ESG issues, the newly adopted SEC Climate Disclosure Rules, counseling private clients on net-zero reporting and what ESG means to global companies. Professors Cale Jaffe ’01, Quinn Curtis and Michal Barzuza will moderate three panels. Food will be provided.
Each year in early spring, some of the nation’s leading experts in tax law convene at the Law School to discuss emerging tax issues. The Virginia Tax Study Group includes scholars, practicing attorneys and government officials who work in tax policy. The event consists of panel presentations and a keynote address at lunch. Will Morris LL.M. '89, global tax policy leader at PwC, will deliver the keynote address in Caplin Pavilion. All other sessions take place in WB126. Parking will be available in the D2 and D3 lots.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
Join an open-minded exploration into points of common ground and points of disagreement. Registration is not required but strongly encouraged to help create a balanced discussion groups and plan for food.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Open to faculty
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Open to faculty
Fordham School of Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma ’19 will share thoughts on the academic job market, fellowships and being a law professor. Professor Richard Re will moderate the discussion. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP to events@law.virginia.edu by March 21.
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - Friday, March 29, 2024
The symposium will provide a setting for interdisciplinary conversations about a range of topics, including property rights, land use regulation, housing, sustainability, segregation, metropolitan inequality, cities, rural communities and federal-state-local relations. Registration in advance is required to attend.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Join members of the Law School Foundation for coffee and cookies, provided by alumni donors who gave during “24 for UVA LAW.”
Friday, March 29, 2024
Emerging from the Critical Race Studies and movement law traditions, Participatory Law Scholarship is a recent movement to produce legal scholarship in collaboration with authors who have no formal legal training but have gained expertise in the law through lived experiences. The symposium will bring together several participatory law scholars and authors to learn more about this movement’s role in developing the law, to examine current theories of knowledge production in legal academia, and to discuss important questions on the role of legal scholarship in shaping societal change.
Chat with the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center and experienced 3Ls to learn how to succeed in a summer internship and come away with a reference. Topics include managing deadlines, client interactions, office culture and more. Food will be provided with RSVP in Symplicity.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Join the North Grounds Track Club for a memorial 5K run honoring Tessa Wiseman. Food will be provided.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024 - Sunday, April 7, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024
Open to faculty
Monday, April 8, 2024
Brenda Mallory, chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, will deliver the Lillian Stone Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Policy at the University of Virginia. As chair, Mallory advises the president on environmental and natural resources policies that improve, preserve, and protect public health and the environment for America’s communities. The lecture, made possible through a gift from University of Virginia alumni Thatcher Stone (Law ’82) and Frank Kittredge (Architecture ’78), is hosted jointly by the Schools of Architecture and Law. The lectureship is intended to fulfill the intellectual and educational commitments of the two schools by creating an opportunity for students to be educated in environmental policy and the National Environmental Policy Act. The Council on Environmental Quality, situated in the White House, is the nation’s lead office on implementation of NEPA. The talk will be followed by a reception. Note: The time of the talk is tentatively scheduled for 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Open to faculty
The Office of Financial Aid is sponsoring a series on real world finances to prepare students for life after law school. This session will introduce students to personal income taxes and tools for evaluating employee benefits like retirement plans, health insurance and disability insurance. Refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Open to faculty
Dean Kevin Donovan will present a session on “Preparing to Succeed in Your Firm Summer Program” for 1Ls and 2Ls who will be summer associates in the summer of 2024.
Friday, April 12, 2024
UVA’s Lambda Law Alliance will be hosting a gala to celebrate 40 years on North Grounds. The gala will feature the presentation of the Alvarez-Coughlin Award to notable alumni such as Cordel Faulk '01, among others. Attendees must purchase a ticket.
Monday, April 15, 2024
The executive branch has grown more powerful, and in recent years the nation has been forced to grapple again with the question of how and when we hold our presidents accountable.
Former President Donald Trump has been charged in four separate criminal cases, two of them in federal court, including an election interference case related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump’s lawyers have denied any wrongdoing and have argued that the former president cannot be prosecuted. President Joe Biden has also faced some legal challenges, including for mishandling classified documents. In this event, a panel of experts will help us make sense of the various cases and examine the broader issue of executive power.
Speakers include Tim Heaphy ’91, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Professor Saikrishna Prakash. Professor Micah Schwartzman ’05 will moderate.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Open to faculty