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Professor Molly Bishop Shadel, Vice Dean George Geis and Professor Toby Heytens give first-year students advice about studying and acclimating to law school life as they head into their first week of classes.

The Charlottesville community posthumously honored Gregory Swanson, a law student who was the first African-American student at UVA, with a ceremony at the downtown branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Swanson filed a lawsuit to gain admission to UVA and was admitted in 1950, paving the way for racial integration in schools. UVA Law Dean Risa Goluboff gives remarks starting at 14:30.

Professors Kimberly Kessler Ferzan and Toby Heytens give exam preparation tips, strategies for answering different types of questions and ways to avoid common exam taking errors.

Find out why "it's all about the people at UVA" through an inside look at the top-ranked law school's community.

Professors Leslie Kendrick, Charles Barzun, Toby Heytens, George Cohen, George Geis and Caleb Nelson offer tips about preparing for and taking law school exams.

Professor John C. Jeffries Jr., an expert in civil rights, federal courts, criminal law and constitutional law, leads his Civil Rights Litigation class.

Professor Anne Coughlin explains how to read a case to first-year students during an event hosted by the Black Law Students Association.

Cordel Faulk, assistant dean for admissions at UVA Law, welcomes the Class of 2018 during orientation.

Luis Fortuño '85, former governor of Puerto Rico and now a partner at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., welcomed the Class of 2018 to the University of Virginia School of Law during orientation.

NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith '89 delivers the commencement address to the Class of 2015, and Dean Paul Mahoney and Student Bar Association President Alex Matthews also speak to the audience.

The 86th annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition features third-year law students Trevor Lovell and Nate Bilhartz (representing the petitioner) and Rhett Ricard and Brett Rector (for the respondent). Judges Thomas Griffith '85 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Roy McLeese of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Judge Pamela Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee preside.

Karen Moran, co-director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, offers graduating students a memorable farewell and words to live by at the annual Charge to the Class.

UVA Law students brought more than 120 teams together to play softball and raise $20,000 for the Charlottesville charity ReadyKids last weekend.

The Université Paris II Panthéon Assas ("Boniere" in the video), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights ("Mabuhay") and National University of Singapore ("Nanpo") teams compete in the final round of the Jean-Pictet Competition, and Singapore is later named the winner.

More than 500 University of Virginia School of Law students signed this year's Student Bar Association Diversity Pledge. The statement of respect and tolerance, now in its ninth year, kicked off Diversity Week events, which began Monday.

Deirdre Enright, director of the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law, discusses opportunities for students in the for-credit and pro bono clinics during an admitted students open house.

Deirdre Enright, director of investigation for the University of Virginia School of Law's Innocence Project Clinic and its pro bono clinic efforts, talks about post-conviction relief and the work of law students on the Adnan Syed case, which was featured on the hit podcast "Serial." Enright's talk was sponsored by the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, the Virginia Innocence Project and Themis Bar Review.

University of Virginia law professors Anne Coughlin and Molly Shadel, along with Sarah Buckley, editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review and Katie Rumbaugh, notes editor for the Virginia Law Review, discuss strategies for women to make the most of their law school careers.

A diverse panel of third-year University of Virginia law students share what they wish they’d known as 1Ls interested in public service jobs on the topics of courses, internships, morale and mentoring.

Third-year University of Virginia law student Archith Ramkumar and Lyle Kossis were the winners of the 84th annual William Minor Lile Moot Court competition.

More than 500 students, faculty and staff at the University of Virginia School of Law signed the Diversity Pledge this week, an annual tradition that was moved this year for the first time to the fall semester.

Two third-year University of Virginia Law School students have been named recipients of prestigious, nationally competitive public service law fellowships.

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

Smitha Dante '10 discusses the Presidential Management Fellows Program.

Don Carroll '71, director of the North Carolina Lawyer Assistance Program, and Kate Gibson, J.D. and Psy.D., a psychologist at the Elson Student Health Center, discussed stress in law school and the profession at an event sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs.