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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind, a 1981 graduate of the University of Virginia's College of Art's and Sciences, and Kurt Wimmer, leading First Amendment lawyer and Suskind's attorney, speak about their years locked in a legal battle with the Bush administration.

University of Virginia School of Law professors A.E. Dick Howard, Kerry Abrams, Kim Forde-Mazrui and Risa Goluboff analyze and discuss the most important Supreme Court decisions of the past term.

University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard gives a talk on "How Constitutional Ideas Travel: The Influence of the American Constitutional Experience on Other Countries and Cultures."

UVA Law Professor Dan Ortiz hosts a discussion of Lawrence v. Texas and its changing role in American law on the decision's 10th anniversary, in a talk sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

Professor Risa Goluboff and Ridge Schuyler, former Virginia Counsel for Obama for America, discuss the recent argument in Shelby County v. Holder, the case challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

Before a packed crowd of students and faculty in Caplin Pavilion, a panel of three University of Virginia law professors explained the most important Supreme Court decisions of the 2011-12 term, including cases involving the federal health care law and Arizona's immigration statute.

University of Virginia law professor Josh Bowers looks at arrests that may be "pointless indignit[ies]" but also "constitutionally reasonable" during a faculty workshop July 10 at the Law School.

Clinic co-director Josh Wheeler and clinic participant Tiffany Rainbolt discuss the First Amendment Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.

University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock discussed his recent argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Hosanna-Tabor and outlined a history of Virginia faculty members who have argued before the Supreme Court.

Professors Douglas Laycock, Micah Schwartzman and Lois Shepherd discussed the legal implications of President Obama's recent decision to require coverage of contraception in all health insurance.

George Mason University law professor Nelson Lund and University of Virginia School of Law professor Frederick Schauer discuss District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago.

Professor Frederick Schauer teaches constitutional law and jurisprudence at the University of Virginia School of Law. In this lecture from his course, Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press, he lectures on free speech and the burning of the American flag.

The U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to address some of the questions surrounding the unreliability of eyewitness identifications, but some states are taking steps that reduce the possibility of wrongful criminal convictions, Virginia Law professor Brandon Garrett said.

In a debate over the U.S. Supreme Court case Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Joseph Sellers, attorney for the plaintiff, appeared alongside Mark Perry, lawyer for Wal-Mart, at the University of Virginia School of Law. The debate was moderated by professor George Rutherglen and featured professor John Monahan.

In an annual tradition, University of Virginia law professors discussed the most important decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court from this past term.

Professor John Harrison led a discussion with research assistants and professors about the extent of presidential power in the recent debate over raising the debt ceiling during a lunch talk Thursday.

Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, delivered the 13th annual Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Professor Douglas Laycock joined Kim Colby, counsel for the Christian Legal Society, and Scott Ballenger '96, counsel for Martinez, to discuss the recent Supreme Court case CLS v. Martinez. Professor Barbara Armacost moderated.

Panelists Marc Elias, Trevor Potter and John Samples discuss the impact of the Citizens United decision.

Panelists Dean Paul G. Mahoney and Professor Paul Stephan joined Professor Todd Zywicki of George Mason University School of Law for a panel discussion on the role of the courts in an uncertain economic climate as part of the Federalist Society's 30th Annual Student Symposium.

American law and public policy must encourage marriage, former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears LL.M. ‘95 said at the Law School Wednesday.

Lawyers involved in California’s Proposition 8 litigation debated a recent federal court ruling striking down a state ban on same-sex marriage before a packed Caplin Pavilion on Nov. 8.

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.

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.