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Professor John Monahan of the University of Virginia School of Law discusses how the science of predicting violence developed and how it shaped his own career on the “Common Law” podcast.

Americans are still taking part in the experiment Thomas Jefferson launched with the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday in accepting the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is the 2022 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.

Dean Risa Goluboff of the University of Virginia School of Law testified Thursday at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will deliver the keynote address at the 2022 Federalist Society National Student Symposium, held at the University of Virginia School of Law on March 4-5.

A member of the presidential commission convened to focus on possible reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court, Tara Leigh Grove, discusses the commission’s report on “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.

New courses offered this winter and spring at the University of Virginia School of Law include Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, Barbarian Law, and New Frontiers in Neuroethics and Law.

Joy Milligan, a scholar at the intersection of law and inequality, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty.

As the Supreme Court has struck down laws that criminalized private behavior, other forms of legal and social regulation have taken their place, argues New York University School of Law professor Melissa Murray on “Common Law,” a podcast sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law.

University of Virginia School of Law community members recognize trailblazing African American legal heroes.

The library at the University of Virginia School of Law has launched a website exploring the history of the school’s connection to slavery.

University of Virginia School of Law alumnus Justin Aimonetti J.D.-M.A. ’20 has won first place in the 2020 Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing competition for his paper exploring habeas corpus.

The legacy of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is reviewed in a new University of Virginia School of Law short course offered in coordination with the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.

Rennard Strickland, a pioneer in the movement for Native rights and a legal historian who received two law degrees from the University of Virginia School of Law, died Jan. 5 at the age of 80.

The University of Virginia School of Law and members of the Law School community have recently been singled out for excellence. Among the accolades, the Association of American Law Schools announced Thursday that Professor Deborah Hellman has won the Section on Jurisprudence Article Award. Published

C. Alex Retzloff ’21, a student at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses what he learned co-authoring an article with a professor on home rule and Virginia’s Constitution.

Professor A. E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law reflects on progress made 50 years after he helped draft the state constitution and looks ahead.

Faculty and alumni at the University of Virginia School of Law are sharing memories and honoring the impact of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. She was 87.

Recent University of Virginia School of Law faculty scholarship has contributed to the study of race and law, including offering pathways to reform.

Professor Cynthia Nicoletti, a legal historian and professor of law at the University of Virginia, has been named a recipient of the UVA Student Council Distinguished Teaching Award.