Professors Danielle Citron of UVA Law and Mary Anne Franks of the University of Miami School of Law a board members of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a discuss Citronas book, aThe Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age.a

Professors Danielle Citron; Hany Farid of the University of California, Berkeley; and Mary Anne Franks of the University of Miami School of Law discuss the Cyber Civil Rights Initiativeas work in the 10 years since its founding. The event was sponsored by the schoolas LawTech Center, which Citron directs.

aThe Partner Tracka author Helen Wan a98 delivered remarks, Dean Risa Goluboff greeted the audience and former Student Bar Association President Juhi Desai a23 introduced Wan at UVA Lawas 2023 commencement ceremony.

Dean Risa Goluboff shares the latest news about the Law School with alumni at reunion weekend.

Professor Leslie Kendrick a06 discusses free speech and the advancement of academic freedom at UVA. Kendrick spoke at the Law School Foundationas Alumni Board and Council luncheon.

In 1920, the first three women were admitted to the University of Virginia School of Law: Rose May Davis, Catherine Lipop, and Elizabeth Tompkins. Professor Anne Coughlin explores the lived realities of these women, from the small, familiar anxieties about grades and tuition costs, to the bold steps they took to combat gendered notions of inferiority during the early 20th century.

As deposit deadlines come and go, admissions offices turn their attention to the prospect of waitlist activity. Directors of Admission Katie Delsandro and Rosanne Ibanez are back to discuss how waitlisted candidates can manage expectations and maximize outcomes during this period of uncertainty.

Although women were not admitted to UVA Law as students until 1920, their presence on Grounds helped shape the legal curriculum of the 19th century. Professor Laura Edwards discusses the Black and white women who lived and labored at UVA, and the ways in which they navigated the repressive limitations on their legal power.

UVA history professor Liz Varon discusses how a Law School dean grew the school but engaged in Jim Crow politics after the Civil War.

Senior Assistant Dean for Career Development Kevin Donovan explains how UVA Lawas Office of Private Practice guides students through the law firm recruiting process, helps them discover which firms are a good fit for their goals and coaches them to become invaluable associates wherever they work.

Professor John Barbee Minor led the Law School from 1845 to his death in 1895. Dr. Randi Flaherty discusses Minor's role in not only expanding the law curriculum and UVA Law's regional prominence, but also in promulgating a curriculum that justified slavery and white supremacy.

Slavery was always a part of Thomas Jefferson's vision for the University of Virginia. Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses the lived experience of slavery on Grounds as well as the intersections of slavery and legal pedagogy at UVA Law.

With deposit deadlines just around the corner, prospective law students have just a few weeks left to decide where they will matriculate this fall. UVA Law student ambassadors James Hornsby a24 and Laura-Louise Rice a25 join Dean Blazer for a candid discussion about the various factors that go into selecting which law school to attend. From rankings to financial considerations to employment outcomes and more, Hornsby and Rice offer advice for how to navigate this important life decision.

At its founding in 1819, Thomas Jefferson wanted UVA Law to prepare leaders and lawyers to serve the new nation, but students desired more practical legal training. Professor David Konig joins us to describe the shifting landscape of early nineteenth-century legal education.

Jon Urick a13, associate chief counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, argues that shaming lawyers who represent politically unpopular clients threatens the rule of law. The event was hosted by the Federalist Society chapter at UVA Law.

Scholars discuss Professor Paul B. Stephanas new book, aThe World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future,a which offers insights about the history and shaky future of the international order. Panelists include Professor Anne van Aaken of UniversitA$?t Hamburg, Kathleen Claussen of Georgetown University and Thomas H. Lee of Fordham University. UVA Law professor Jay Butler moderated the event.

Facial recognition technology is used for everything from unlocking your phone to locking up criminals. UVA Law professor Elizabeth Rowe makes the case that biometric data like your face and fingerprints should have trade secret-level protections.

Second-year law student and Black Law Students Association President Keegan Hudson discusses building community, amowing your own grassa and tuning out misinformation when it comes to applying to law school.

Professor Bertrall Ross leads a conversation on the different sources and consequences of aparticipatory inequalitya in elections between the rich and the poor, and discusses whether campaigns are evolving to address the problem and whether law can offer a solution. The lecture was sponsored by the Law School Foundation. Dean Risa Goluboff provides an introduction.

What makes people and organizations obey a or resist a the law? Social scientist Susan S. Silbey, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses her lifeas work on the subject.

Selecting a law school to attend is ultimately making a decision to join a lifelong community. University of Virginia Law School Foundation Chief Development Officer Jason Trujillo a01 shares what makes the UVA Law alumni network so special, and how students benefit from it both while in school and long after graduation.

Neil H. MacBride a92, general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, delivers the keynote address for the conference aRegulating Conflict and Competition: The Economic Levers of National Security.a Professor Kristen Eichensehr opened the conference, and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced MacBride. The event was sponsored by the Law Schoolas National Security Law Center.A

The federal process for reviewing proposed interstate natural gas pipelines was highly contentious several decades ago and is now more of a rubber stamp. UVA Law professor Alison Gocke looks at what changed.

Professor Melissa Murray of the New York University School of Law delivers the keynote address for the symposium aDobbs and Democracy.a 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.

Scholars discuss Professor Danielle Citronas new book, aThe Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age,a which makes the case for understanding intimate privacy as a civil and human right. Panelists include University of Pennsylvania law professor Anita L. Allen, George Washington University law professor Daniel J. Solove, and Northeastern University law and computer science professor Ari E. Waldman. UVA Law professor Deborah Hellman moderated the event and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced the speakers.

First-year UVA Law student Mackenzie Kubik joins Dean Blazer for a candid discussion about 1L year a which fears are founded (and which are not!), what to look forward to and what steps you can take to set yourself up for success. Kubik also offers advice to applicants currently facing the home stretch of the 2022-23 admissions cycle.

St. Maryas 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 a03, 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.

UVA Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson discusses her co-edited book aThe Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity,a 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, a50 Years After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez: New and Old Fights for Equity in Public Schools.a

Professor Robert SchA1/4tze of Durham University discusses his chapter aLimits to the Unionas aInternal Marketa Competence(s): Constitutional Comparisons,a published in the book aThe Question of Competence in the European Union.a Professor Georg Kofler of Vienna University of Economics and Business provides commentary. UVA Law professor Ruth Mason and Oxford University professor Tsilly Dagan also discuss the work. This event was held as part of the aTax Meets Non-Taxa Oxford-Virginia Legal Dialogs workshop series that builds bridges from tax to other kinds of scholarship.