Upcoming Events

Monday, March 18, 2024

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Public Interest Law Association Spring General Body Meeting

Connect with current PILA Board members and other public interest students while learning about upcoming events, various Board roles, and what the PILA Board application process looks like. Food will be provided.

Sponsor
Public Interest Law Association
Walter Brown Hall 102 (WB102)

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Trans Youth Rights Panel

The Virginia Department of Education recently released model policies that, according to the ACLU of Virginia, “seek to erase transgender and non-binary youth from the classrooms.” This panel will explore the impact of the model policies, the current wave of anti-trans legislation around the country and the effect the current climate has on patients and families. 

The panel, moderated by Professor Naomi Cahn, will include Wyatt Rolla ’13, senior transgender rights attorney with the ACLU of Virginia; Mary Sullivan, adolescent advocacy and outreach program director at UVA Teen and Young Adult Health Center; and Professor Andrew Block. Food will be provided.

Contact:
Seth Coven
Sponsor
Child Advocacy Research and Education
Lambda Law Alliance
Purcell Reading Room
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Experiential Learning Fair

Representatives from UVA Law’s clinics, the Externships Program, skills courses and  Student Records will be available to discuss the wide variety of experiential learning opportunities at UVA Law. The fair will help students plan how to hone their professional skills before entering practice, find out what to expect from the experience, ask about requirements and responsibilities, and learn how they can have an impact on their clients. Snacks will be provided.

Participating programs and curricular options include Externships, Student Records, Clinical Programs and Legal Aid Justice Center Clinics. Participating clinics include: Appellate Litigation, Civil Rights, Community Organization and Social Enterprise, Criminal Defense, Decarceration and Community Reentry, Economic and Consumer Justice, Entrepreneurial Law, Environmental Law and Community Engagement, Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy, First Amendment, Health and Disability Law, Holistic Youth Defense, Housing Litigation, Immigration, Innocence Project, International Human Rights, Nonprofit, Patent & Licensing, Project for Informed Reform, Prosecution, State and Local Government Policy, Supreme Court Litigation, Workplace Rights and Youth Advocacy.

Sponsor
Faculty
Caplin Pavilion
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Recent Developments in Delaware Corporate Law, With Leo E. Strine Jr.

Leo E. Strine Jr. is of counsel in the corporate department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Prior to joining the firm, he was the chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 2014-19. Before becoming chief justice, he served on the Delaware Court of Chancery as chancellor since 2011 and as a vice chancellor since 1998.

Walter Brown Hall 102 (WB102)

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

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Direct Client Services and Secondary/Vicarious Trauma

Planning to work in direct client services as a public defender or civil legal aid lawyer? Those lawyers might experience secondary/vicarious trauma. Secondary/vicarious trauma refers to the distress people might feel from empathetic engagement with clients who have experienced their own traumas. In this event, Dr. Kate Gibson and Karen Painter from CAPS will discuss realistic strategies to prevent or cope with secondary/vicarious trauma. Food will be provided with RSVP in Symplicity.

Sponsor
Student Affairs
WB129
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“Your Face Belongs to Them,” With Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill will discuss her 2023 book, “Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It.”

In Hill’s book, she tracks the rise of Clearview AI, the company that scraped 40 billion images from the web to build a powerful facial recognition app for use by the police. She details how the company’s advantage was an ethical breakthrough, not a technological one, because other entities can replicate what they've done, and some already have. Hill will discuss how we got to a world without anonymity and what we can do about it.

Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times, where she writes about the intersection of privacy and technology. She covers topics such as facial-recognition technology, artificial-intelligence surveillance, genetic analysis and online reputation.

Before joining the Times in 2019, Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion, Forbes Magazine and the legal news site Above the Law. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.

She attended Duke University and earned a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

Sponsor
LawTech Center
Caplin Pavilion

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Friday, March 22, 2024

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Virginia Law & Business Review Symposium | Legal Perspectives of ESG: Scholarship, Business, and Private Practice

The symposium will feature expert practitioners and scholars, with Patagonia General Counsel Hilary Dessouky delivering the keynote. Speakers will discuss current ESG issues, the newly adopted SEC Climate Disclosure Rules, counseling private clients on net-zero reporting and what ESG means to global companies. Professors Cale Jaffe ’01, Quinn Curtis and Michal Barzuza will moderate three panels. Food will be provided.

Sponsor
Virginia Law & Business Review
Purcell Reading Room
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Virginia Tax Study Group Meeting, 2024

Each year in early spring, some of the nation’s leading experts in tax law convene at the Law School to discuss emerging tax issues. The Virginia Tax Study Group includes scholars, practicing attorneys and government officials who work in tax policy. The event consists of panel presentations and a keynote address at lunch. Will Morris LL.M. '89, global tax policy leader at PwC, will deliver the keynote address in Caplin Pavilion. All other sessions take place in WB126. Parking will be available in the D2 and D3 lots.

Contact:
Ruth Mason
Sponsor
Virginia Center for Tax Law
Walter Brown Hall 126 (WB126) and Caplin Pavilion

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Monday, March 25, 2024

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Common Law Grounds March Roundtable

Join an open-minded exploration into points of common ground and points of disagreement. Registration is not required but strongly encouraged to help create a balanced discussion groups and plan for food.

Sponsor
Common Law Grounds
Purcell Reading Room

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - Friday, March 29, 2024

Land, Climate and Justice Conference

The symposium will provide a setting for interdisciplinary conversations about a range of topics, including property rights, land use regulation, housing, sustainability, segregation, metropolitan inequality, cities, rural communities and federal-state-local relations. Registration in advance is required to attend.

Sponsor
Local Equity and Democracy Working Group (LEAD)
Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE)
UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy
Virginia Environmental Law Journal
Caplin Pavilion

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Friday, March 29, 2024

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Virginia Law Review Online Symposium: “Participatory Law Scholarship: A Seat at the (Legal) Table”

Emerging from the Critical Race Studies and movement law traditions, Participatory Law Scholarship is a recent movement to produce legal scholarship in collaboration with authors who have no formal legal training but have gained expertise in the law through lived experiences. The symposium will bring together several participatory law scholars and authors to learn more about this movement’s role in developing the law, to examine current theories of knowledge production in legal academia, and to discuss important questions on the role of legal scholarship in shaping societal change.

Contact:
Dennis Ying
Sponsor
Virginia Law Review
Caplin Auditorium
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How To Succeed in Your Public Service Internship

Chat with the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center and experienced 3Ls to learn how to succeed in a summer internship and come away with a reference. Topics include managing deadlines, client interactions, office culture and more. Food will be provided with RSVP in Symplicity.

Sponsor
Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center
Walter Brown Hall 104 (WB104)

Saturday, March 30, 2024

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Tessa Memorial Run

Join the North Grounds Track Club for a memorial 5K run honoring Tessa Wiseman. Food will be provided.

Contact:
Sam Ellis
Sponsor
North Grounds Track Club
Clay Hall

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Friday, April 5, 2024 - Sunday, April 7, 2024

Friday, April 5, 2024

Monday, April 8, 2024

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Lillian Stone Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Policy | A Conversation With Brenda Mallory: New Horizons in Environmental Policy

Brenda Mallory, chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, will deliver the Lillian Stone Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Policy at the University of Virginia. As chair, Mallory advises the president on environmental and natural resources policies that improve, preserve, and protect public health and the environment for America’s communities. The lecture, made possible through a gift from University of Virginia alumni Thatcher Stone (Law ’82) and Frank Kittredge (Architecture ’78), is hosted jointly by the Schools of Architecture and Law. The lectureship is intended to fulfill the intellectual and educational commitments of the two schools by creating an opportunity for students to be educated in environmental policy and the National Environmental Policy Act. The Council on Environmental Quality, situated in the White House, is the nation’s lead office on implementation of NEPA. The talk will be followed by a reception. Note: The time of the talk is tentatively scheduled for 4 p.m.

Sponsor
Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE)
Caplin Pavilion

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

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Real-World Finances: Personal Income Taxes and Employee Benefits

The Office of Financial Aid is sponsoring a series on real world finances to prepare students for life after law school. This session will introduce students to personal income taxes and tools for evaluating employee benefits like retirement plans, health insurance and disability insurance. Refreshments will be provided.

Sponsor
Financial Aid, Education and Planning
Walter Brown Hall 126 (WB126)

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Friday, April 12, 2024

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Lambda Law Alliance 40th Anniversary Gala

UVA’s Lambda Law Alliance will be hosting a gala to celebrate 40 years on North Grounds. The gala will feature the presentation of the Alvarez-Coughlin Award to notable alumni such as Cordel Faulk '01, among others. Attendees must purchase a ticket.

Sponsor
Lambda Law Alliance
Kimpton Forum Hotel

Monday, April 15, 2024

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Holding Our Presidents Accountable

The executive branch has grown more powerful, and in recent years the nation has been forced to grapple again with the question of how and when we hold our presidents accountable.

Former President Donald Trump has been charged in four separate criminal cases, two of them in federal court, including an election interference case related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump’s lawyers have denied any wrongdoing and have argued that the former president cannot be prosecuted. President Joe Biden has also faced some legal challenges, including for mishandling classified documents. In this event, a panel of experts will help us make sense of the various cases and examine the broader issue of executive power.

Speakers include Tim Heaphy ’91, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Professor Saikrishna Prakash. Professor Micah Schwartzman ’05 will moderate.

Sponsor
Karsh Center for Law and Democracy
UVA Miller Center of Public Affairs
UVA Miller Center/Online

Wednesday, April 17, 2024