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Professor Julia Mahoney moderated a panel discussion on the constitutionality of the recent health care reform legislation featuring professors Elizabeth Magill and Frederick Schauer, as well as Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow of the Cato Institute.

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.

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.

The best presidents in U.S. history interpreted their executive powers broadly during times of national crisis, a legal scholar and controversial former Justice Department official said Friday at an event co-sponsored by the Law School's Federalist Society.

Professor Jeremy Waldron explored the appropriate place of religion in public discussions on government and policy last week during the Law School’s Meador Lecture on Law and Religion.

Four years ago, the tightly contested precursor to this year’s gubernatorial race between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds led to a recount and new procedures for Virginia elections, the general counsel of the Republican Party of Virginia told students Monday.

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.

Top lawyers from either side of the gun control debate squared off Tuesday at the Law School during an event co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society.

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.

Expert advocates in the field of gay rights discussed the recent constitutional challenges to California's Proposition 8 at an ACLU-UVA Law event with David B. Cruz, professor of law at USC Gould School of Law, and Sharon McGowan, staff attorney of the ACLU LGBT Project.

When ruling on free speech cases – even ones involving repugnant actions such as cross burning – it’s important to focus on protecting the Constitution, not individual people, the chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court said at the Law School Friday.

Economist John Lott spoke about his book, "Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't," at a Federalist Society event Thursday.

In front of a standing-room-only crowd of students and faculty in Caplin Pavilion, a panel of Law School professors broke down some of the most important decisions from the past U.S. Supreme Court term.

Ending affirmative action in recruiting students to U.S. law schools would come at an unacceptable cost, said Law School professor Alex Johnson Thursday at a resident faculty speaker series event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law.

Students and instructors talk about what it's like to participate in the Supreme Court litigation clinic. The yearlong clinic allows students to work on actual Supreme Court cases under the supervision of law faculty and practicing attorneys.

Goldstein, who spoke at the Law School Aug. 26 at an American Constitution Society event, is principally responsible for SCOTUSblog, which is devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading legal blogs.

Rev. Barry Lynn, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Jeffrey Ventrella, vice-president of the Alliance Defense Fund, debate church and state issues.

A debate on same-sex marriage and adoption brought a standing-room-only crowd to Caplin Pavilion Nov. 13, as Virginia law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui and Professor Lynn Wardle from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University faced off on one of the most contentious issues in family law.

The 6th annual Supreme Court Round-Up, sponsored by the Student Legal Forum, played to a packed Caplin Pavilion audience and featured a panel of Law School professors moderated by Professor A.E. Dick Howard.

A look from mid-term revealed that the Supreme Court docket was full of key environmental and business cases, U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement observed at a Federalist Society talk in Caplin Pavilion April 11.

Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund and UVA law professor and First Amendment expert Robert O’Neil discussed the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case recently heard by the Supreme Court, during an event sponsored by the Federalist Society April 3.

A series of five Supreme Court rulings from 1901 to 1922, known as the Insular Cases, ensured Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States would remain unclear to this day, explained panelists at the Latin American Law Organization spring colloquium March 29.

Recently, several leaders in the legal community have voiced concerns that judicial independence is in jeopardy. Thanks to Americans’ recognition of the importance of an independent judiciary, now and throughout history, judicial independence is safe, Judge William H. Pryor said.

The struggle for control of the Supreme Court in recent years has been defined by how justices interact with and react to each other as much as their differing legal philosophies, said Jan Crawford Greenburg of ABC News at a Law School talk.

Virginia Del. Bob Marshall, co-author of an amendment on the state ballot this fall to ban legal recognition of same-sex marriage, debated the issue with Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry.