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Brown University professor Prudence Carter, Florida International professor Anindya Kundu, Stanford University professor Sean Reardon and Georgetown University research professor Marguerite Roza discuss understanding educational opportunity gaps at the launch of the Education Rights Institute. ERI director and Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson moderated. Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, gave a video introduction.

Michigan State University professor Kristine Bowman, U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan ’97, Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law director Mark Rosenbaum and West Virginia University professor Joshua Weishart discuss law and policy reforms for educational opportunity gaps at the launch of the Education Rights Institute. Institute director and Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson moderated. Harvard University professor Martha Minow gave a video introduction.

Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, delivers the keynote address at the launch of the Education Rights Institute, “Toward a High-Quality Education for All Students: Contemporary Questions for Law and Policy.” Dean Risa Goluboff, UVA President Jim Ryan ’92 and Education Rights Institute inaugural director Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson also deliver remarks.

Professor Melissa Murray of the New York University School of Law delivers the keynote address for the symposium “Dobbs and Democracy.” UVA Law professor Bertrall Ross moderated the discussion. The event was co-sponsored by the Journal of Law & Politics and the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.

UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson discusses her co-edited book “The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity,” in which scholars also propose federal, state and local reforms. Professor Richard Schragger moderated the event, which was part of the 2023 Virginia Law Review Online symposium, “50 Years After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez: New and Old Fights for Equity in Public Schools.”

St. Mary’s University law professor Albert Kauffman discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court case San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez continues to affect school funding. Kauffman, who delivered the keynote address for the 2023 Virginia Law Review Online symposium, was introduced by Angela Ciolfi ’03, executive director of the Legal Aid Justice Center. Kauffman represented the plaintiff in Rodriguez , Demetrio Rodriguez, and others in a number of influential state court cases on the same issue following the Supreme Court decision.

Political scientist James L. Gibson discusses his survey data suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court lost some legitimacy in the eyes of the public after overturning Roe v. Wade .

Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson describes the school’s offerings in the education law field. This session was part of UVA Law’s 2022 Admitted Students Open House.

Why are many K-12 schools still struggling with racial inequity and the legacy of segregation almost 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education? UVA President Jim Ryan ’92 discusses the role of the Supreme Court, public policy and higher education in addressing the issue.

From interracial marriage to LGBTQ rights, when the Supreme Court decriminalizes private behavior, other forms of regulation step in, says New York University School of Law professor Melissa Murray.

From health care to taxes, numerous financial benefits are still tied to whether you are married — even as the marriage rate is declining. UVA Law professor Naomi Cahn discusses how uncoupling benefits from marriage can be more equitable.

Archi Pyati, chief of policy for the Tahirih Justice Center in Washington, D.C., and Sabrina Talukder ’14, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York City, discussed the history of domestic violence asylum in the United States and the ways in which their organizations are addressing new hurdles in asylum law.

Andrew K. Block Jr., former director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law and an attorney who has reformed state law concerning youths, talks about his work as director of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice. He addresses his background as a public interest lawyer and law professor and the impact it had on his decision to become director of the department, and on the opportunities he sees for the legal profession to influence correctional policy and practice.

During the UVA Law Board of Trustees and Alumni Council meeting on Nov. 7, 2014, University of Virginia School of Law professor Kerry Abrams addresses the evolution of same-sex marriage rights in the U.S. over the past decade.

Marsha Levick, deputy director, chief counsel and co-founder of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, gives the keynote address at the UVA Law Child Advocacy Clinic's 15th anniversary conference.

Andrew Block, director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, talks about the goals of the clinic, and clinic students Jake Spilman and Emily Kveselis discuss their work on behalf of a juvenile offender.

University of Virginia law professor James Ryan and Angela Ciolfi, director of the JustChildren program of the Legal Aid Justice Center, speak on "Poverty as Disability: Neuroscience, Poor Children and Special Education."

Starting this fall, the Law School will offer a clinic designed to help low-income families resolve legal issues through mediation or other options outside of a courtroom.

Recognizing the role of emotion is critical to a better understanding of family law, experts said Thursday during a conference on law and emotion held in Caplin Pavilion.

It’s a crime in which the victim is also the criminal—so whom do you prosecute? Underage youths who exploit themselves online can be subject to criminal pornography charges, explained child abuse expert Mary Leary at a Law School event Feb. 5, but so far courts are applying the law unevenly.