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Professor Anne Coughlin discussed law school exams and study strategies on Nov. 30 at an event sponsored by Women of Color.

Lawmakers’ intentions are not irrelevant to statutory interpretation, contrary to the rhetoric of some legal thinkers, Professor Caleb Nelson said last week.

Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos and Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin discussed racial and income-based inequalities in education on Nov. 11 at the Law School.

Armed conflict goes where the enemy goes regardless of geopolitical boundaries, according to a panel of experts discussing the use of unmanned drones in the war on terror.

Experts discussed the "eclectic objection" at the Virginia Law Review Symposium on Free Speech. The panelists included: Vincent Blasi, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Frederick Schauer, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Steven H. Shiffrin, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School; Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law. Afterward, Robert C. Post, Dean and Professor of Law, Yale Law School; and James Weinstein, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, responded. Professor Lillian Bevier moderated the event

Professor James Ryan appeared Monday in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a client of the Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Professor A.E. Dick Howard presents an information session on the Law School's study abroad programs.

Michael Walker, senior enforcement counsel for administrative litigation in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discussed how to find summer internships and permanent positions in environmental law.

The U.S. Supreme Court continued its recent conservative trend during the past term, Professor A. E. Dick Howard said Wednesday during the annual Supreme Court Roundup.

Political leaders and the judiciary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries struggled to determine the constitutional implications of antislavery, “free labor” ideology, Professor Barry Cushman said Wednesday during a lecture marking his appointment as James Monroe Distinguished Professor.

When Lillian BeVier entered law school in California in 1961 she was one of five females in her class. By the time she finished teaching her last lecture at the University of Virginia School of Law this semester, women made up nearly half of the first-year class.

Professor Frederick Schauer examined whether thinking like a lawyer is unique to the legal profession at an alumni luncheon on April 30. Schauer is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.

Jim Donovan of Goldman Sachs, an adjunct professor, discusses common traits of the best lawyers during a Career Services event.

Though most of the Constitution’s framers hoped to create an executive officer who would be distinct from a monarch, many contemporary observers believed the president was a king in everything but name, Professor Saikrishna Prakash said Tuesday.

Professor Josh Bowers discussed prosecutorial charging discretion in petty public order cases at a lunch-time talk Thursday. Prosecutors have almost unfettered discretion to decline or pursue criminal charges, Bowers said, but there are several reasons why they are ill-suited to consider the normative merits of potential charges.

University of Virginia law professor Alex Johnson, former chair of the Law School Admissions Council and former dean of Minnesota Law School, discusses the black/white LSAT score gap and why law schools are not admitting African-American students at a rate proportional to the test-taking population.

The Supreme Court increasingly endorses a weak form of cost-benefit analysis when evaluating environmental cases, Jonathan Cannon said at a chair lecture Wednesday.

Professor John Monahan recently spoke at an alumni meeting about his landmark survey of the Class of 1990. During the lecture, Monahan presented detailed data on his survey results, covering issues such as professional satisfaction, salary and gender inequality.

International agreements like the Kyoto Protocol helped establish institutions for nations to talk about climate change, but the next step in reducing emissions will require more buy-in from participants, Professor Jon Cannon told students at a J.B. Moore Society event Nov. 16.

Professor John Norton Moore discusses the laws governing the apprehension of pirates.

Establishing the rule of law after a military intervention is increasingly about relationship building and less about institutional improvements, said Professor Thomas Nachbar, who spoke to students Tuesday during a J.B. Moore Society of International Law event

Whether White House policy advisors, or czars, have too much power is a policy question rather than a legal one, Professor John Harrison told Congress on Tuesday.

Taking a holistic approach to client services can help those in the financial services industry navigate a changing economy, a Goldman Sachs managing director told students Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court may be growing more conservative under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, but the movement to the right is incremental, a panel of law professors said Wednesday at the annual Supreme Court Roundup sponsored by the Student Legal Forum.

If Congress passes laws that allow the government to deem some financial institutions “too big to fail,” taxpayers will continue to bear the brunt when those institutions falter, Dean Paul G. Mahoney told lawmakers during a congressional hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill.