UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW
“YOU CAN COME HERE and be a Supreme Court clerk. You can come here and be a law firm partner. You can come here and be a federal public defender. You can come here and do anything you want — the sky is the limit on what kind of career you can have. “WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS PLACE is, in addition to that, you don’t have to sacrifice your sanity or happiness. The idea that you would have to weigh and balance academic excellence and professional opportunity against happiness or collegiality is a false choice. You can have it all here.” —DEAN RISA GOLUBOFF
“JUSTICE IS THE FUNDAM OF SOCIETY” FOUNDED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON IN 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. Consistently ranked among the top law schools, Virginia is a world-renowned training ground for distinguished lawyers and public servants, instilling in them a commitment to leadership, integrity and community service. HOME TO MORE THAN 22,000 STUDENTS and 16,000 faculty and staff members, the University of Virginia has been ranked among the nation’s top three public universities since 1984. THE UNIVERSITY’S DIVERSE INTELLECTUAL LIFE is open to law students: Up to 12 credits from other departments may be counted toward the J.D. degree.
AMENTAL LAW
—THOMAS JEFFERSON TO PIERRE SAMUEL DUPONT DE NEMOURS, 1816
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LAW SCHOOL CAN BE ABOUT MORE than going to classes, reading cases and writing briefs. It can include collaborative problem-solving, a lively exchange of ideas and a commitment to working as part of a team — the same skills required in the legal profession. At Virginia, law students share their experiences in a cooperative spirit, both in and out of the classroom, and build a network that lasts well beyond their three years here.
FAST FACTS Court, 36 UVA Law graduates chosen to clerk at the Supreme 2004-18 terms
913 J.D. students, Fall 2017 Students in the Class of 2020 attended 154 undergraduate institutions and come from 38 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico 67 percent have work experience after college 6.2:1 student-faculty ratio, Fall 2017 10 academic journals 20,000+ alumni in all 50 states and in more than 60 foreign countries 20 clinics 62 student organizations 675+ offices recruited on Grounds at UVA Law, Fall 2017 15 dual-degree programs 15,244 pro bono hours logged by the Class of 2018 8 study-abroad programs 42 students completed externships, 2017-18 school year 51.4% of alumni gave to the law school, 2017-18 Court Litigation Clinic 14 cases argued by the Supreme since its inception in 2006
STUDENTS PUT LAW
VIRGINIA’S CURRICULUM gives students the tools to understand law, then put what they have learned into practice. The school’s 20 clinics provide students access to real-world cases, contact with clients and experience that give them a head start as attorneys. Programs such as those offered in law and business, international law, environmental law and criminal law make legal study come to life. Students also benefit from skill-building courses in public speaking, professional ethics and legal writing, as well as a robust externships program.
LAW STUDENTS practice their trial advocacy skills in a mock courtroom.
AW INTO PRACTICE FROM ARGUING IN FEDERAL COURTS across the country to preparing briefs for actual Supreme Court cases, students at Virginia have the opportunity to prepare at an elite level for the practice of law. Led by PROFESSOR DANIEL ORTIZ, the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic offers students the chance to work on all aspects of cases, from the seeking of Supreme Court review to briefing on the merits. The only thing students don’t do is argue the case — but they do act as judges in a practice mooting with the instructor. Through the APPELLATE LITIGATION CLINIC, students brief and argue cases before federal appellate courts across the country.
CLINICS Appellate Litigation Child Advocacy Civil Rights Consumer Law Criminal Defense Employment Law Entrepreneurial Law Environmental and Regulatory Law Family Alternative Dispute Resolution First Amendment Law Health Law Immigration Law Innocence Project International Human Rights Litigation and Housing Law Nonprofit Law Patent and Licensing I Patent and Licensing II Prosecution Supreme Court Litigation
CURRICULAR PROGRAMS The John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program Program in Law and Public Service International Law Legal and Constitutional History Criminal Law Human Rights Center for the Study of Race and Law Environmental and Land Use Law Immigration Law Intellectual Property Health Law Public Policy and Regulation Tax Law Program in Law & Humanities Animal Law
INSTITUTES AND CENTERS Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Center for Oceans Law and Policy Center for National Security Law Center for the Study of Race and Law
IN ITS INAUGURAL YEAR, THE CONSUMER LAW CLINIC served 22 clients, recovered $8,045 and rescued two homes from foreclosure. One of the homes saved belongs to local retirees Charlotte and Ralph Terrell, who were paired with student AMBER ROBERTS ’15. After a bank error snowballed into a debt crisis, the Terrells turned to the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville, which partners with the yearlong clinic to train students to be consumer advocates for low-income clients in debt-related cases. Students in the clinic gain experience by interviewing clients, investigating complaints, drafting court documents, doing discovery, negotiating with financial institutions and, on occasion, questioning witnesses and presenting arguments in court. “There were definitely moments when I felt like I was in their shoes,” Roberts said. “I would be on the phone and I couldn’t get through or couldn’t get a response or I felt like I was getting the runaround. And I thought, if I’m supposed to be what they call in law school a ‘sophisticated actor’ and I can’t get this done, then what do you expect of someone who hasn’t found legal aid or doesn’t have any support?” “Amber was right on point with everything,” Charlotte Terrell said. “I thought it was amazing how she could keep everything in order.”
IN APRIL, MESSIAH JOHNSON WALKED OUT OF A VIRGINIA PRISON AFTER 20 YEARS IN JAIL, thanks to the Law School’s Innocence Project. Freed on a conditional pardon, Johnson was convicted of a 1998 armed robbery of a Norfolk beauty salon, and had been sentenced to 132 years even though he had an alibi for the night in question.His claim of innocence has since been bolstered by another man’s confession. KATHRYN KLORFEIN ’15, now an associate at O’Melveny & Meyers, helped obtain the confession during her last year as a student, having started on the case in 2013. Students in the yearlong clinic investigate and litigate wrongful convictions of inmates throughout Virginia. “[Clinic Director of Investigation] Deirdre Enright and I drove down to visit [the alternate suspect],” Klorfein said. “He wasn’t even aware that anyone had ever been convicted of the armed robbery of this beauty salon. Over the course of a few visits, he told us his story. He signed an affidavit confessing to the crime. Working on Messiah’s case showed me the importance of a thorough, diligent investigation, especially in criminal cases. Little details, like a newspaper clipping about local crimes — that can be the breakthrough.”
A DOOR TO PUBLIC SERVICE CAREERS Each year about 40 students opt to extern. Externships offer second- and third-year students the chance to work full- or part-time in the public sector, build a network and earn academic credit. EMILY REEDER ’17 and DANNY COHEN ’17 worked for Sens. Patrick Leahy and Sherrod Brown, respectively. “By far the best part has been building relationships with Senate lawyers,” said Reeder, a participant in the UVA Law in DC program. “Not only has their feedback honed my legal skills, the opportunity to work alongside such accomplished staff provided incredible insights into the world of policy — and political lawyering — that are impossible to get in a classroom.”
MONICA HAYMOND ’16 externed for NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.
VIRGINIA LAW STUDENTS DESIGN THEIR LEGAL EDUCATION AND THEIR INTELLECTUAL LIFE.
FIRST-YEAR COURSES
KATIE MONTOYA ’18 HOMETOWN: Albuquerque, New Mexico EDUCATION: Patrick Henry College,
government NEXT: Clerking for Judge Jerry
Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
“UVA’S FACULTY IS FILLED WITH STELLAR PROFESSORS. They’re tremendously intelligent and devoted to their students. But more importantly, they approach the law from a variety of perspectives.”
VIRGINIA OFFERS MORE THAN 250 COURSES AND SEMINARS EACH YEAR. Students pursuing interdisciplinary ideas benefit from an environment where nearly half of all law faculty also hold advanced degrees in fields such as psychology, economics, philosophy, history, medicine and theology. Each first-year student takes one “small-section” class consisting of 30 students during the first semester, which helps bond classmates from the start. Outside the classroom, students plan and program many of the conferences, lectures and panels that enrich the school’s intellectual life.
COURSE CONCENTRATIONS Business Organization and Finance Commercial Law Communications and Media Law Constitutional Law Criminal Justice Employment and Labor Law Environmental and Land Use Law Family Law Health Law Human Rights and Civil Liberties Intellectual Property International and National Security Law Jurisprudence and Comparative Law Legal History Litigation and Procedure Public Policy and Regulation Race and Law Tax Law
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Civil Procedure Contracts Criminal Law Legal Writing Torts
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Constitutional Law Legal Writing Property 5-7 hours of electives DEGREE PROGRAMS Juris Doctor (J.D.) Master of Laws (LL.M.) Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) DUAL-DEGREE PROGRAMS J.D.-M.A. in English, government or foreign affairs, history, philosophy J.D.-M.B.A. J.D.-M.D. J.D.-M.P.H. (Public Health) J.D.-M.P.P. (Public Policy) J.D.-M.S. (Accounting) J.D.-M.U.E.P. (Urban and Environmental Planning) J.D.-Master’s in Economic Law at Sciences Po in Paris J.D.-M.A. (International Relations) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies J.D.-M.A.L.D. (Law and Diplomacy) in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University J.D.-M.P.A. (Public Affairs) in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University STUDY ABROAD Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany Instituto de Empressa, Madrid, Spain Melbourne Law School, Australia Seoul National University, South Korea Tel Aviv University Law School, Israel University of Auckland, New Zealand University of Sydney, Australia Waseda University, Tokyo Students may create their own study-abroad program and spend one semester studying law in a foreign university law school or law department. The Law School also offers January Term courses in Paris and Israel.
CONCENTRATIONS VIRGINIA LAW OFFERED THE FOLLOWING COURSES DURING THE PAST THREE ACADEMIC YEARS. Several courses appear in more than one concentration. Numbers in parentheses indicate which year: 2016-17 is coded (17), 2017-18 is coded (18) and 2018-19 is coded (19). Courses marked (JAG) are offered by the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, located next door to the Law School. Students are not required to follow a particular concentration, nor is it noted on transcripts.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND FINANCE COURSES AND SEMINARS
A Beginner’s Guide to Private Equity Fund Formation (17) Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (17,18,19) Advanced Corporate Finance (17) Advanced Topics in Securities Regulation (17,18,19) Advising the Board of Directors in a Mergers and Acquisitions World (17) Agency and Partnership (17,18) Airline Industry and Aviation Law (17,18,19) Antitrust (17,18,19) Antitrust in the Global Economy (17,18,19) Antitrust Practice (17,18) Antitrust Review of Mergers in a Global Environment (17,18,19) Banking and Financial Institutions (17,18,19) Bankruptcy (17,18,19) Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (17,18,19) BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law (17,18,19) Business Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (17,18,19) Class Actions and Complex Litigation (17) Corporate Finance (17,18,19) Corporate Governance New Paradigm – Shareholder Activism (18) Corporate Law Policy (17,18) Corporate Strategy (17,19) Corporate Transactions: Startup to Exit (17,18,19) Corporations (17,18,19) Corporations (Law & Business) (17,18,19) Current Issues in Corporate Law and Governance (17,18) Derivatives and Other Exotic Financial Instruments (19) Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Empirical Methods in Corporate Law and Finance (17,18) Employee Benefits Law (17,19)
Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (17,18,19) Energy Businesses and Private Company Acquisitions (17,18) European Company Law (17) Federal Regulation of Investment Companies (17,18,19) Franchise Law (17,19) Inside the Board of Directors (18,19) Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance (19) International Business Negotiation (17,18,19) International Finance (18,19) Investment and Valuation in Financial Markets (17) Israeli Business Law and Innovation (17,18,19) Law and Business Management in the Health Care Sector (17) Law and Economics Colloquium (17) Law and Finance of Venture Capital-Backed Firms (17,18) LawTech (19) Lawyering for In-House Counsel (18) Leadership and Team Management (17,18,19) Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (17,18,19) Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits (17,18) Mergers and Acquisitions (Law & Business) (17,19) Nonprofit Organizations (17,18) Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (18,19) Quantitative Methods (17,18,19) Real Estate Transactions: Principles and Practice (17) SEC and Class-Action Securities Enforcement (17) Secured Transactions (17,18,19) Securities Litigation and Enforcement (19) Securities Regulation (17,18,19) Securities Regulation (Law & Business) (17,18,19) Startup of a Medtech Company (17,18,19) The Fed, the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath (17,19) The Firm and Cyberspace (19) Topics in Banking and Financial
Regulation (17,18) Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (19) Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions (17,18,19) Under Siege: Boards and Private Equity in Financial Distress (17,18,19) CLINICS
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (17,18,19) Nonprofit Clinic (17,18,19)
COMMERCIAL LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Admiralty (17,18,19) Advanced Topics in Securities Regulation (17,18,19) Airline Industry and Aviation Law (17,18,19) Antitrust (17,18,19) Banking and Financial Institutions (17,18,19) Bankruptcy (17,18,19) Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (17,18,19) Business and Government Tort Liability (17,19) Business Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (17,18,19) Class Actions and Complex Litigation (17) Commercial Sales Transactions: Domestic and International (18,19) Construction Law (17,18,19) Copyright Law (17,18,19) European Union Law (17,18,19) Franchise Law (17,19) Government Contract Law (17,18,19) Insurance (17,18,19) International Banking Transactions (17,18,19) International Investment Arbitration (17,18) Law and Finance of Venture Capital–Backed Firms (17,18) Modern Real Estate (18) Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (19) Patent Law (17,18,19) Real Estate Transactions: Principles and Practice (17) Regulatory Law and Policy (17,18,19) Secured Transactions (17,18,19) Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (17,18,19)
Trade Secrets: History, Theory and Practice (17) Under Siege: Boards and Private Equity in Financial Distress (17,18,19) CLINIC
Consumer Law Clinic (18,19)
COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Antitrust in the Global Economy (17,18,19) Business and Governmental Tort Liability (17,19) Communications Law (17,19) Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (17,18,19) Copyright Law (17,18,19) Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Intellectual Property Law Policy (17,18,19) International Arbitration (17,18,19) International Trade Law (19) National Security and Information (18) Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (17,18,19) CLINICS
Consumer Law Clinic (18,19) First Amendment Clinic (17)
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Administrative Law (17,18,19) Advanced Campaign Finance (17,19) Business and Governmental Tort Liability (17,19) Civil Liberties Seminar (17,18) Civil Rights Litigation (17,18,19) Civil War and the Constitution (18) Coercion (17) Comparative Constitutional Design (17) Comparative Constitutional Law (18,19) Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar (17) Constitutional Crises (19) Constitutional History I: American Revolution to 1865 (17) Constitutional History II: The Twentieth Century (18) Constitutional Law and Economics (18) Constitutional Law II: Freedom
of Speech and Press (17,18,19) Constitutional Law II: Money and Constitutional Rights (17) Constitutional Law II: Religious Liberty (17,18,19) Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties (17,18,19) Constitutionalism: History and Jurisprudence (17,18,19) Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture and Constitutions (18,19) Corporate Rights (17) Criminal Procedure Survey (17,18,19) Death Penalty (17) Defamation (17) Discrimination Theory (17,18) Education Law and Policy (19) Education Rights and Enforcement (17,18) Federal Sentencing (17,18,19) Government Secrecy (17,18) Judicial Role in American History (17,18) Land Use Law (17,18,19) Law and Education (19) Law of Armed Conflict (17,18,19) Law of the Police (17,18,19) Lawyering for In-House Counsel (18) Legislation (17,18,19) Legislation and Regulation (18,19) LGBTQ Rights Before and After Obergefell (17) Monetary Constitution Seminar (17,18,19) Presidential Powers (17,18,19) Racial Justice and Law (17,18,19) Regulation of the Political Process (17,18,19) Religious Liberty and the Scholarly Process (18) Separation of Church and State (17) Slavery and the Constitution (17) Supreme Court from Warren to Roberts (17,18,19) Supreme Court Justices and the Art of Judging (17,18,19) Supreme Court: October Term (17,18)
Tax Discrimination Seminar (18) The U.S. President and Policymaking: History, Theory and Simulation (18) Understanding Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts (17,18,19) Virginia and the Constitution (17,18,19) CLINICS
Appellate Litigation Clinic (17,18,19) Civil Rights Clinic (19) First Amendment Clinic (17) Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (17,18,19)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Criminal Law (17,19) Advanced Criminal Procedure Seminar (17,18,19) Advanced Issues in Criminal Justice (19) Coercion (17) Computer Crime (17,18,19) Contemporary Debates in Criminal Law (17,18) Corporate Rights (17) Crime and Punishment (17) Criminal Adjudication (18,19) Criminal Investigation (17,18,19) Criminal Justice Policy (18) Criminal Law Simulation (18) Criminal Procedure Survey (17,18,19) Criminology (17,18,19) Current Issues in Drug Law and Policy (18) Current Issues in Forensic Science (17,18) Cyber Law and Policy (18) Death Penalty (17) Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice (18,19) Federal Litigation Practice (17,18,19) Federal Sentencing (17,18,19) Forensics Litigation (17,18) International Criminal Law (17,19) International Criminal Law (18)
Law and Psychology: Wrongful Convictions Seminar (18,19) Law of the Police (17,18,19) Legislation and Regulation (18,19) Lying and Lie Detection (18) Mental Health Issues in Juvenile Justice (17) Plea Bargaining (17,18,19) Prison Reform Litigation and Advocacy (17) Sentencing (19) Social Science in Law (17,18,19) Terrorism, Human Rights and Rule of Law: Comparative Approach (17,19) The Role of the Federal Prosecutor (18) Trials of the Century: Literary and Legal Representations of Great Criminal Trials (19) Transnational Criminal Procedure (18) Understanding Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts (17,18,19) White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice (17,18,19) Women in the Criminal Justice System (18) CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (19) Criminal Defense Clinic (17,18,19) Innocence Project Clinic (17,18,19) Prosecution Clinic (17,18,19)
EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Class Actions and Complex Litigation (17) Discrimination Theory (17,18) Employee Benefits Law (17,19) Employment Discrimination (17,18,19) Employment Law: Contracts, Torts and Statutes (17,18,19) Employment Law: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Employment Law: Wage and
Hour Regulation (17,19) Labor Law (17,19) Professional Sports and the Law (17,18,19) Retirement Security (17) Sports Law (17) CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (19) Employment Law Clinic (17,18,19)
ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND USE LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Environmental Law (17,18) Climate Change Law and Policy (17,18) Conservation Planning and Law (17,18,19) Construction Law (17,18,19) Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (17,18,19) Energy and the Environment (17) Energy Regulation and Policy (18) Environmental Law (17,18,19) Federal Lands, Energy and Natural Resource Law (17) Foundations of Climate Change Law and Policy (19) International Environmental Law (17,19) Land Use Law (17,18,19) Modern Real Estate (18) State and Local Government
Law (18,19) Urban Law and Policy (17,19) Urban Legal History (19) Wildlife Law (19) CLINIC
Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic (17,18,19)
FAMILY LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Education Law and Policy (19) Estate Planning: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Family Economic Policy (17) Family Law (17,18,19) Federal Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers (17,18,19) Juvenile Justice Seminar (18,19) Law and Education (19) Mental Health Issues in Juvenile Justice (17) Practical Trust and Estate Administration (17,18,19) Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts (17,18,19) Trusts and Estates (17,18,19) Youth Law (17,18) CLINICS
Child Advocacy Clinic (17,18,19) Civil Rights Clinic (19) Family Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic (17)
HEALTH LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Bioethics and Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration (17,18,19) Bioethics and the Law (17) Bioethics and the Law Seminar (18,19) Biotechnology and the Law (19)
Current Issues in Drug Law and Policy (18) Current Issues in Law and Psychological Science (18) Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (18,19) Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Exercises in Rulemaking: Society, Technology and the Law (17,18,19) Food and Drug Law (18) Food Law (19) Genetics and the Law (18,19) Global Health Law and Policy (18) Health Care Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform (17,18,19) Health Law Survey (17,18,19) Implicit Bias and the Law (18) Law and Business Management in the Health Care Sector (17) Law of Adolescence (19) Law of Human Experimentation (17,18) Medical Malpractice and Health Care Quality (17,18,19) Medicare Coverage, Payment and Compliance (17,19) Mental Health Issues in Juvenile Justice (17) Mental Health Law (17) New Frontiers in Health Law and Clinical Ethics (17) Public Health Law and Ethics (18) Regulating Addictive Drugs (17,18) Reproductive Ethics and Law (17,18,19) Seminar in Mental Health Law
Reform (19) Social Science of Health Equity (18) Special Topics in Health Law (17) Topics in Law, Medicine and Society (19) CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (19) Health Law Clinic (17,18,19)
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (17,18,19) Civil Liberties Seminar (17,18) Civil Rights Litigation (17,18,19) Constitutional Law and Economics (18) Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (17,18,19) Constitutional Law II: Survey of Civil Liberties (17,18,19) Human Rights Study Project (17,18,19) Immigration Law (18,19) Implicit Bias and the Law (18) International Human Rights Law (17,18,19) Law of Armed Conflict (17,18,19) LGBTQ Rights Before and After Obergefell (17) Racial Justice and Law (17,18,19) Terrorism, Human Rights and Rule of Law: Comparative Approach (17,19) The Law of Refugees and Forced Migration (19) Unconventional Warfare (18) U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar (19) CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (19)
First Amendment Clinic (17) Immigration Law Clinic (18,19) International Human Rights Law Clinic (17,18,19)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Patent Law (17,18) Bioethics and the Law (17) Biotechnology and the Law (19) Communications Law (17,19) Computer Crime (17,18,19) Copyright Law (17,18,19) Cultural Property (17,18,19) Current Issues in Forensic Science (17,18) Current Issues in Intellectual Property Law (17) Cyber Law and Policy (18) Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Exercises in Rulemaking: Society, Technology and the Law (17,18,19) Intellectual Property Law Policy (17,18,19) Israeli Business Law and Innovation (17,18,19) Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (17,18,19) Patent Law (17,18,19) Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (17,18,19) Trade Secrets: History, Theory and Practice (17) Trademark Law (18) CLINICS
Patent and Licensing Clinic I (17,18,19)
Patent and Licensing Clinic II (17,18,19)
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL SECURITY LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Admiralty (17,18,19) An American Half-Century (17,18,19) Anti-Terrorism, Law and the Role of Intelligence (17) Antitrust in the Global Economy (17,18,19) Building the Rule of Law (17,18,19) Commercial Sales Transactions: Domestic and International (18,19) Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) EU Taxation (17) European Company Law (17) European Union Law (17,18,19) Foreign Relations Law (19) French Public and Private Law (17,18,19) Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (17,19) Government Secrecy (17,18) Human Rights Study Project (17,18,19) Immigration Law (18,19) Intelligence Law Reform (17) International and Foreign Legal Research (17,18) International Arbitration (17,18,19) International Banking Transactions (17,18,19) International Business Negotiation (17,18,19) International Criminal Law (17,18,19) International Environmental Law (17,19) International Human Rights Law (17,18,19) International Investment Arbitration (17,18) International Law (17,18,19) International Law and the Use of Force (18) International Tax Practicum (17,18,19) International Taxation (18,19) International Trade Law (19) Israeli Business Law and Innovation (17,18,19) Law of Armed Conflict (17,18,19) Legal and Policy Issues of the Indochina War (17,19) Military Law (17) National Security and Information (18) National Security Law (17,18,19) National Security Law and Practice Seminar (18) Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (19) Oceans Law and Policy (17,18) Presidential Powers (17,18,19) Terrorism, Human Rights and Rule of Law: Comparative Approach (17,19) The Law of Refugees and Forced Migration (19) Topics in International Tax (17,18,19)
Unconventional Warfare (18) U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar (19) War and Peace: New Thinking About the Causes of War and War Avoidance (18) World War I (18,19) CLINICS
Immigration Law Clinic (18,19) International Human Rights Law Clinic (17,18,19)
JURISPRUDENCE AND COMPARATIVE LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Asian Americans and Legal Ideology (18) Behavioral Decisionmaking and the Law (17,18) Building the Rule of Law (17,18,19) Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (18) Civil Liability: Analysis and Critique (17) Civil Rights Litigation (17,18,19) Common Law I (17,18,19) Common Law II (17,18,19) Comparative Constitutional Law (17,18,19) Constitutional Crises (19) Constitutional Law and Economics (18) Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (17,18,19) Constitutional Law II: Religious Liberty (17,18,19) Constitutionalism: History and Jurisprudence (17,18,19) Constitutionalism: Nation,Culture and Constitutions (18,19) Current Issues in the Supreme Court (19) European Company Law (17) Federalism (17) Feminism in Practice (18) French Public and Private Law (17,18,19) Judicial Philosophy in Theory and Practice: Justice Scalia and His Critics (17,18) Jurisprudence (17,18,19) Law and Economics Colloquium (17) Legal Theory in Europe and the United States: A Very Brief Introduction (17,18,19) Legal Theory Workshop Seminar (18,19) Liberalism and Its Critics (19) Originalism in Theory and Practice (19) Positive Political Theory and the Regulatory Process (17) Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture (18,19) Roman Law of Family and Status (17) Rule of Law and Threats to It (18,19) Seminar in Ethical Values (17,18,19) Social Science in Law (17,18,19) Supreme Court from Warren to Roberts (17,18,19) Tax Discrimination Seminar (18) Terrorism, Human Rights and Rule of Law: Comparative
Approach (17,19) Twentieth-Century Legal Thought (18)
LEGAL HISTORY COURSES AND SEMINARS
American Legal History Seminar (17,18) An American Half-Century (17,18,19) Asian Americans and Legal Ideology (18) Civil War and the Constitution (18) Constitutional History I: American Revolution to 1865 (17) Constitutional History II: The Twentieth Century (18) Crime and Punishment (17) English Legal History to 1776 (18,19) Global Legal History (19) Judicial Role in American History (17,18) Law and American History: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War (19) Law and American History: From Reconstruction Through the 1920s (19) Legal History of the Early Republic: The Age of Marshall (19) Legal History of the Founding Period (18) Legal History Workshop (18) Monetary Constitution Seminar (17,19,18) Roman Law of Family and Status (17) Twentieth-Century Legal Thought (18) Urban Legal History (19) Virginia and the Constitution (17,18,19) World War I (18,19) Writing Legal History (19)
LITIGATION AND PROCEDURE
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Advanced Civil Procedure (17,18,19) Advanced Criminal Procedure Seminar (17,18,19) Advanced Legal Research (17,18,19) Advanced Verbal Persuasion (17,18,19) Appellate Practice (18,19) Arbitration (17) Civil Liability: Analysis and Critique (17) Civil Rights Litigation (17,18,19) Class Actions and Aggregate Litigation (19) Class Actions and Complex Litigation (17) Commercial Arbitration (18,19) Conflict of Laws (17,18,19) Construction Law (17,18,19) Criminal Investigation (17,18,19) Criminal Law Simulation (18) Criminal Procedure Seminar: Comparative Reform (17) Criminal Procedure Survey (17,18,19)
Current Issues in Forensic Science (17,18) Current Issues in Law and Psychological Science (18) Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (18,19) Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) Evidence (17,18,19) Federal Courts (17,18,19) Federal Criminal Pretrial and Trial Practice (18,19) Federal District Court Practice (19) Federal Litigation Practice (17,18,19) Forensics Litigation (17,18) Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (17,19) Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (17,18,19) Government Secrecy (17,18) Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy (17,18,19) Immigration Law (18,19) International Arbitration (17,18,19) International Trade Law (19) Issues in Federal Civil Practice and Procedure (17,19) Judging (17,18) Juvenile Justice Seminar (18,19) Law and Psychology of Dispute Resolution (17,18,19) Lawyering for In-House Counsel (18) Legislation (17,18,19) Medical Malpractice and Health Care Quality (17,18,19) National Security Law and Practice Seminar (18) Negotiation (17,18,19) Oral Presentations In and Out of the Courtroom Seminar (17,18,19) Persuasion (17,18,19) Plea Bargaining (17,18,19) Practical Trial Evidence: Principles and Practice (17,18) Prison Reform Litigation and Advocacy (17) Professional Liability (19) Professional Responsibility (17,18,19) Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Law Practice (17,18,19) Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (18,19) Quantitative Methods (17,18,19) Remedies (17,18,19) Restitution and Unjust Enrichment (17)
VIRGINIA LAW’S CURRICULUM is complemented by academic conferences, lectures and a range of related events organized by students and faculty. Students have met and networked with attorneys in a variety of fields, including U.S. REP JOE KENNEDY III, whose grandfather ROBERT F. KENNEDY ’51 and greatuncle SEN. TED KENNEDY ’59 graduated from UVA Law.
Rhetoric Seminar (17,18,19) Science and the Courts (19) SEC and Class-Action Securities Enforcement (17) Securities Litigation and Enforcement (19) Taking Effective Depositions (19) Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar (17,19) The Role of the Federal Prosecutor (18) Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts (17,18,19) Trade Secrets: History, Theory and Practice (17) Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions (17,18,19) Trial Advocacy (17,18,19) Trial Advocacy College (17,18,19) Trials of the Century: Literary and Legal Representations of Great Criminal Trials (19) Understanding Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts (17,18,19) U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar (19) Virginia Practice and Procedure (17,18,19) CLINICS
Appellate Litigation Clinic (17,18,19) Civil Rights Clinic (19) Consumer Law Clinic (18,19) Family Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic (17) Immigration Law Clinic (18,19) Innocence Project Clinic (17,18,19) Litigation and Housing Law Clinic (17,18,19) Prosecution Clinic (17,18,19) Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (17,18,19)
PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION COURSES AND SEMINARS
CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE K-9 OFFICER LYNN CHILDERS AND LEO, a Belgian malinois, visited Professor ANNE COUGHLIN’S Criminal Investigation class recently to give students a firsthand look at police dog procedures. “To understand the value of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, it’s essential to pay close attention to how the police interpret and deploy it on a daily basis out there in the places where they work,” Coughlin said. “Officer Childers brings this body of law to life in the classroom, and she does so brilliantly.”
Administrative Law (17,18,19) Advanced Campaign Finance (17,19) Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (17,18,19) Advising the Board of Directors in a Mergers and Acquisitions World (17) AI, Automation and the Future of Legal Practice (18) Airline Industry and Aviation Law (17,18,19) Animal Law (17,18,19) Antitrust (17,18,19) Antitrust Practice (17,18) Antitrust Review Mergers in a
Global Environment (17,18,19) Banking and Financial Institutions (17,18,19) Baseball (17,18,19) Bioethics and Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy and Administration (17,18,19) Bioethics and the Law Seminar (18,19) Business and Governmental Tort Liability (17,19) Civil Rights Litigation (17,18,19) Class Actions and Complex Litigation (17) Climate Change Law and Policy (17,18) Constitutional Law and Economics (18) Corporate Law Policy (17) Criminal Justice Policy (18) Cultural Property (17,18,19) Current Issues in Drug Law and Policy (18) Death Penalty (17) Education Law and Policy (19) Education Rights and Enforcement (17,18) Employment Law: Wage and Hour Regulation (17,19) Energy and Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (17,18,19) Energy and the Environment (17) Energy Regulation and Policy (18) Environmental Law (17,18,19) Exercises in Rulemaking: Society, Technology and the Law (17,18,19) Federal Income Tax (17,18,19) Federal Lands, Energy and Natural Resource Law (17) Federal Regulation of Investment Companies (17,18,19) Feminism and the Free Market (17,18,19) Food and Drug Law (18) Food Law (19) Foundations of Climate Change Law and Policy (19) Gender, Status and Economics (17) Genetics and the Law (18,19) Global Health Law and Policy (18) Government Contract Law (17,18,19) Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (17,18,19) Government Secrecy (17,18) Health Care Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform (17,18,19) Historic Preservation Law (17,18,19) Immigration Law (18,19) Implicit Bias and the Law (18) International Trade Law (19) Land Use Law (17,18,19) Law and Business Management in the Health Care Sector (17) Law and Economics (17,19) Law and Economics Colloquium (18,19) Law and Economics II: Public Law and Economics (17)
Law and Education (19) Law and Public Service (17,18,19) Law of Human Experimentation (17,18) Law of the Police (17,18,19) Lawyering for In-House Counsel (18) Legislation (17,18,19) Legislation and Regulation (18,19) Legislative Drafting and Public Policy (17,18,19) Lying and Lie Detection (18) Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits (17,18) Monetary Constitution Seminar (17,18,19) New Frontiers in Health Law and Clinical Ethics (17) Positive Political Theory and the Regulatory Process (17) Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture (17) Presidential Powers (17,18,19) Prison Reform Litigation and Advocacy (17) Professional Liability (19) Providing K-12 Education; Taxes and Money (17) Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (18,19) Quantitative Methods (17,18,19) Regulating Addictive Drugs (17,18) Regulation of the Political Process (17,18,19) Regulation of U.S. Industries (17,19) Regulatory Law and Policy (17,18,19) Reproductive Ethics and Law (17,18,19) Rules (17,18,19) Securities Regulation (17,18,19) Securities Regulation (Law & Business) (17,18,19) Seminar in Mental Health Law Reform (19) Social Work of Law (19) State and Local Government Law (18,19) Tax Policy (17) Tax Secrecy and Tax Transparency in a Global Economy (18) The Fed, the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath (17,19) The Role of the Federal Prosecutor (18) The U.S. President and Policymaking: History, Theory and Simulation (18) Topics in Banking and Financial Regulation (17,18) Transactional Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions (17,18,19) Understanding Police Use of Force: Investigation and Litigation Concepts (17,18,19) Urban Law and Policy (17,19) U.S. Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar (19) Wildlife Law (19) CLINICS
Consumer Law Clinic (18,19) Environmental and Regulatory
Law Clinic (17,18,19) Immigration Law Clinic (18,19) Litigation and Housing Law Clinic (17,18,19)
RACE AND LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
American Legal History Seminar (17,18) Asian Americans and Legal Ideology (18) Civil Rights Litigation (17,18,19) Constitutional History I: American Revolution to 1865 (17) Constitutional History II: The Twentieth Century (18) Crime and Punishment (17) Criminal Adjudication (18,19) Criminal Investigation (17,18,19) Criminal Procedure Survey (17,18,19) Education Rights and Enforcement (17,18) Employment Discrimination (17,18,19) Family Law (17,18,19) Immigration Law (18,19) Implicit Bias and the Law (18) International Human Rights Law (17,18,19) Judicial Role in American History (17,18) Land Use Law (17,18,19) Law and Education (19) Poverty in Law, Literature and Culture (18,19) Racial Justice and Law (17,18,19) Social Science in Law (17,18,19) Urban Law and Policy (17,19)
Tax Policy (17) Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar (17,19) Tax Secrecy and Tax Transparency in a Global Economy (18) Taxation and Economic Development (17,18,19) Transfer Pricing (19) CLINIC
Nonprofit Clinic (17,18,19)
CLINICS
Civil Rights Clinic (19) Immigration Law Clinic (18,19) International Human Rights Law Clinic (17,18,19)
TAX LAW COURSES AND SEMINARS
Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (17,18,19) Corporate Tax (17,18,19) Employee Benefits Law (17,19) Estate Planning: Principles and Practice (17,18,19) EU Taxation (17) Federal Income Tax (17,18,19) Federal Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers (17,18,19) Gender, Status and Economics (17) International Tax Practicum (17,18,19) International Taxation (18,19) Nonprofit Organizations (17,18) Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (18,19) Partnership Tax (17,18,19) Practical Trust and Estate Administration (17,18,19) Providing K-12 Education: Taxes and Money (17) Quantitative Methods (17,18,19) Real Estate Transactions: Principles and Practice (17) Retirement Security (17) Tax Discrimination (17) Tax Discrimination Seminar (18)
A JANUARY TERM COURSE SET IN ISRAEL offers students a unique way to study the nation’s business laws and entrepreneurial practices. UVA Law professors MICHAL BARZUZA, a corporate law expert, and DOTAN OLIAR, an intellectual property expert, lead the six-day, two-credit class, ISRAELI BUSINESS LAW AND INNOVATION. The course includes lectures at Tel Aviv University as well as off-campus meetings at law firms, government offices and at the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem. Israel has originated more companies on the New York Stock Exchange than any other nation besides the United States and China, the professors said, and is often considered a “startup nation” that has persevered economically despite such
challenges as the recurrence of war and a lack of natural resources. “The course gives students an overall view of the various ways in which the Israeli legal system promotes innovation and entrepreneurship,” Oliar said. “Hopefully, this experience would not only be valuable to students interested in international practice, but also provide a perspective on the ways in which the law performs similar functions in the U.S.”
FACULTY COMMIT TO M VIRGINIA’S PROFESSORS BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS. Faculty serve as leaders in the intellectual life of the community by organizing and speaking at lectures and other events, working with student organizations, volunteering for pro bono service and fostering new academic programs when they find student interest. They also join students in creating a community outside the classroom by contributing to efforts to raise money for public service grants or other student-run projects. A COLLABORATION BETWEEN A UVA LAW PROFESSOR and student may open up the seemingly impenetrable world of statutes, regulations and court decisions to everyone, not just a small set of legal researchers and attorneys in the know. MAURICIO GUIM S.J.D. ’18, near left, and FARAZ DADGOSTARI in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering are attempting to create computational models for legal research. Their work is being supervised by Professors MICHAEL LIVERMORE, left, and PETER BELING (Systems and Information Engineering), and builds on Livermore’s work with researchers at Dartmouth College on mathematical models to analyze Supreme Court decisions. “The Holy Grail is to say ‘I have a legal question,’ and then be able to interface with a natural language search engine that will find the relevant legal authority, and then go to it and identify answers or areas of uncertainty,” Livermore said. “Finding the relevant resources is a huge part of legal reasoning. So we want to both improve that and also broaden it.”
MORE THAN LEADING CLASSES. PROFESSOR DOUGLAS LAYCOCK, above, has argued five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the landmark Holt v. Hobbs, which was decided in 2015. In that case, the court ruled unanimously that an Arkansas inmate could wear a beard according to his religious beliefs. “There are prison cases about long hair and full beards, about kosher diets, about keeping sacred texts and sacramental items in a cell, and about gathering for worship under appropriate supervision,” Laycock said. “This opinion will affect all those cases.”
STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS, including Andrew Hayashi and Ruth Mason, second from right, discussed issues facing women as part of a dinner series sponsored by the student organizations FEMINIST LEGAL FORUM, VIRGINIA LAW WOMEN and WOMEN OF COLOR.
UVA LAW FACULTY ENGAGE IN THE WORLD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. PROFESSOR JOHN DUFFY, left, worked on a legal team that won a unanimous decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that will greatly curb the practice of “forumshopping” for venues in patent litigation cases. PROFESSOR MILA VERSTEEG won a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a $200,000 award, which she is using to expand her research into the world’s constitutions and how countries enforce constitutional rights.
WITH HELP FROM PROFESSOR RUTH MASON, UVA Law’s team won the International and European Tax Moot Court Competition, the first time a U.S. team has triumphed in the event’s almost 15-year history.
Julia Wynn ’18, Brandon Dubov ’18, Phil Ogea ’18, David Rubin ’19 and Christina McLeod ’18 traveled to Belgium to compete.
STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY to take one-credit SEMINARS IN ETHICAL VALUES, which are usually taught from the professors’ homes and resemble a book or film club. LIDE PATERNO ’15 took a seminar offered by DEAN RISA GOLUBOFF and PROFESSOR RICHARD SCHRAGGER, who are married. “The books we read and discussions we engaged in prompted great, continuing conversations — not only among my classmates, but also between my wife and me,” Paterno said. “As we wrestled with how to flourish in all aspects of our lives, the professors were candid about the joys and struggles and questions they’re facing too as spouses, parents and attorneys. It was encouraging to engage with professors and classmates in such a personal way, often sitting cross-legged on a comfy couch and full from a delicious meal and root beer float. I know I will continue to reflect on this seminar long into my career.”
READING LIST: “I Don’t Know How She Does It” BY ALLISON PEARSON “Get to Work ... And Get a Life, Before It’s Too Late” BY LINDA HIRSCHMAN “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” BY SHERYL SANDBERG “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time” BY BRIGID SCHULTE “The Partner Track: A Novel” BY HELEN WAN ’98
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ADITYA BAMZAI recently made his debut at the U.S. Supreme Court after a rare decision by the justices to allocate argument time to an independent amicus curiae. The court granted him 10 minutes to present along with parties representing sides in three consolidated cases — Dalmazzi v. U.S., Cox v. U.S. and Ortiz v. U.S. Bamzai had just 10 days to prepare for argument. In the court’s decision, the justices mentioned Bamzai by name 31 times and his argument took up the bulk of the opinion.
ZACH TORRES-FOWLER ’12 is an associate at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia and ALYSSA KUHN ’13 is clerking for U.S. Judge Joseph Bianco of the Eastern District of New York after serving as an associate with Gibson Dunn.
GRADUATES ARE READY FOR THEIR CAREERS ON DAYONE.
VIRGINIA LAW ALUMNI ARE LEADERS IN THEIR FIELDS:
NO. 2 IN ABOVE THE LAW’S 2018
GRADUATES JOIN LAW FIRMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, CLERK FOR FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS AND WORK IN A RANGE OF PUBLIC INTEREST JOBS, FROM GOVERNMENT TO LEGAL AID.
LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS, which focus on employment outcomes.
No. 2 in the number of
graduates leading the nation’s top 100 firms, according to an Above the Law report.
No. 2 in the number of
chief legal officers at the nation’s top 500 companies, according to a 2014 report.
VIRGINIA HAS GRADUATES IN
ALL 100
of the American Lawyer top 100 firms (as of May 2018).
No. 4 among law schools
NO. 3 IN 2017 GRADUATES WITH JOBS
in placing clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court from 2005-18. Ten graduates have clerked during the 2014-18 terms.
AT LAW FIRMS OF 100 or more attorneys, by percentage.
STEPHANIE FUNG ’18 HOMETOWN: Wayne, New Jersey EDUCATION: University of California, Berkeley, history and French NEXT: O’Melveny & Myers, Silicon Valley
“LAW SCHOOL TEACHES YOU how to break down an issue and come up with a creative solution, which will serve me wherever my career takes me, but I’ve also learned how to approach different perspectives with more empathy and understanding. I now feel confident in my ability to tackle a problem effectively and better engage with people with whom I may disagree.”
AUSTIN RAYNOR ’13, NICOLE FRAZER ’15 and ANDREW FERGUSON ’12 clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2016 term. Virginia is fourth among law schools in placing clerks on the court from 2005-18.
KEYAWNA GRIFFITH ’18 HOMETOWN: Waldorf, Maryland EDUCATION: University of Maryland, criminology and criminal justice NEXT: Skadden, Washington, D.C.; clerking for Judge Leslie Abrams
of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, 2019-21 “THE STUDENT MENTORS I had as a 1L and 2L were invaluable. I was blown away by how they took me under their wings. These students did everything from sending me outlines, to giving me advice for pursuing clerkships, to introducing me to top law firms that would eventually hire me as a summer associate and full time. My experience at UVA would have been a lot different without them. I cannot think of many other schools that have students working just as hard for each other as they are for themselves.”
CLASSES OF 2015-17 TOP JOB LOCATIONS New York 225 Washington, D.C. 193 Virginia 116 California 81 Texas 62 Pennsylvania 24 Massachusetts 22 Maryland 20 Georgia 19 Delaware 17 North Carolina 17 International 16 Florida 15 Ohio 13 Colorado 11 Tennessee 11 LAW FIRMS 77% with firms in American Lawyer’s top 100 by gross revenue 8% with firms ranked between 101-200 3% with large international firms (NOT RANKED BY AMERICAN LAWYER)
12% with smaller firms PUBLIC INTEREST 23 federal government 48 state or local government 28 public interest groups 8 military CLERKSHIPS* 3 U.S. Supreme Court 83 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal 119 U.S. District Courts and other federal courts 22 state courts *SOME ALUMNI CLERKED FOR MULTIPLE COURTS
CAMPUS RECRUITING FALL 2017 More than 675 offices Over 5,900* onGrounds interviews of second-year students
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FOR THE CLASSES OF 2015-17, the Law School awarded 57 Powell, Kennedy and Ruff fellowships to graduates working for public interest and nonprofit employers.
FIRST-YEAR SUMMER JOBS* CLASS OF 2019 SUMMER 2017
26% federal government 25% firm 15% academic 15% public interest groups 11% state or local government 9% judicial 6% corporate *SEVERAL STUDENTS HELD MULTIPLE POSITIONS
JOY GUO ’14 joined Debevoise & Plimpton in New York after clerking for Judge Sarah Netburn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
WEBELIEVE LAWYERS HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO SERVE.
LAWYERS HAVE A SPECIAL OBLIGATION TO SERVE THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Many students at Virginia volunteer their legal services, work in public service jobs over the summer and pursue public interest careers after graduating. Virginia supports these students through the Virginia Loan Forgiveness Program, the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center, the Pro Bono Program, fellowships, and the Program in Law and Public Service.
THE VIRGINIA LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM helps repay the loans of graduates earning less than $75,000 annually in public service jobs. Those earning less than $55,000 receive benefits covering 100 percent of their qualifying law school loans. THE MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER provides individual counseling and sponsors events focused on educating students about working in the public sector. THE PRO BONO PROGRAM is a voluntary program encouraging all students to complete at least 75 hours of pro bono service during their three years of law school. Opportunities are available locally and nationwide. The program also organizes pro bono projects that focus on areas such as child advocacy, immigration law and veterans’ disability claims.
THE MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER
PUBLIC SERVICE 2017-18
More than $572,828 awarded to 143 students working public interest jobs in the summer of 2017
helps students applying for
internships and postgraduate fellowships, and offers a number
15,244 pro bono hours completed
of financial awards to students.
by law students
The Law School’s own POWELL
100 Class of 2018 graduates completed at least 75 hours of pro bono while in
FELLOWSHIPS and ROBERT F. KENNEDY ’51 PUBLIC SERVICE
law school
46 students participated in the
FELLOWSHIPS provide salaries to graduating students working
2018 Alternative Spring Break Program with 11 organizations
in public service positions. CONTACT: (434) 924-3883 publicservice@law.virginia.edu law.virginia.edu/publicservice
THE LAW SCHOOL AND STUDENT-RUN PUBLIC INTEREST LAW ASSOCIATION provided more than $572,828 to 143 students working nationwide and internationally in public service jobs during the summer of 2018. The grant helped fund the internship of NATHAN VANDERPOEL, who worked for the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office in Brighton, where he managed 40 criminal cases from first appearance through trial, and assisted on other attorneys’ cases, conducting client interviews and doing legal research. “I’ll never forget the feeling of getting my first acquittal after trial,” he said. “The look on my client’s face the moment the verdict came down is something that will always stay with me — it’s why I am committed to public defense after law school.”
PROGRAM IN LAW AND PUBLIC SERVICE The Program in Law and Public Service offers a select group of students the chance
to receive specialized training that will prepare them for careers in public service, including in prosecution, public defense, government, legal aid, international human rights and other nonprofit organizations.
Each year about 25 first-year students are admitted to the program, along with up to five second-year students. The program aims to prepare students for a career in public service that they can
start on day one after they graduate or finish a clerkship. READ MORE ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES of students in the program through their blog:
uvalawpublicserviceblog.org
CORY SAGDUYU ’18
ERIN SEAGEARS WAS AMONG 46 STUDENTS
RECEIVED A
WHO PARTICIPATED in the school’s alternative
SKADDEN
spring break program at 11 organizations nation-
FELLOWSHIP to work on
wide. As a volunteer with the Special Litigation Division of the Public Defenders Service in
behalf of immi-
Washington, D.C., she watched attorneys argue in
grant victims of
court and experienced the work of the division,
workplace crimes
which was focused on a number of cases involving
or labor exploita-
serious convictions where the discredited science
tion. The Skadden
of hair microscopy played a role. “I learned just
program, arguably
how critical the role of public defender is, both to
the most prestigious and competitive public interest fellowship in the country, will fund her first two years working as an attorney for Ayuda, a
the nation’s justice system as a whole and to individual lives,” she said. “Through my research throughout the week, I learned and
nonprofit organization that helps such victims
experienced the
attain visas so they can pursue better lives.
many challenges
“I’ve heard a lot of traumatic stories, and I want
public defenders
to help people who have gone through these situ-
face ... [and] the
ations,” said Sagduyu, who interned with Ayuda
incredible value
during her second summer. “It’s motivating to see how resilient people can be. They’re still trying
in dedicating time and effort to
to improve their lives and move forward even
a case that could
though they’ve suffered conditions most people
so greatly impact
can’t even imagine. It’s extremely inspiring.”
a person’s life.”
AMONG THE LAW SCHOOL’S GRADUATES WHO WORK IN PUBLIC SERVICE, several in recent years have found their way to Washington, D.C., where they fulfill their passion for policy and make an impact on national issues. LAUREL SAKAI ’11 is senior counsel for U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, MIKE BUCHWALD ’06 is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division, and LAUREN PRIEB MEHLER ’11 is counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
YOU’LL FIND A HOME HERE.
ACCESS TO 10 ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND MORE THAN 60 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS, from social clubs to legal aid groups, ensures that students explore the world outside law school and expand their legal experiences while leading well-rounded lives.
THE LIBEL SHOW: A cast and crew of more than 100 students produces the Libel Show, a yearly musical comedy that sends up law school culture.
JOE CHARLET ’18 HOMETOWN: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina EDUCATION: Yale, classical civilizations NEXT: Hogan Lovells, Washington, D.C.
“I AM ACTUALLY A MUCH MORE OPTIMISTIC PERSON NOW. Part of my optimism stems from having had the ability all throughout law school to use what I learned in the classroom to help actual people in the real world through pro bono work and clinics, which instilled a lot of confidence in me that real progress can be made through the law if people are given access to representation. The rest of my optimism is born out of the fact that I have spent three years working with and around incredible people of all stripes with so many varied interests, and from this experience I truly believe the larger public is going to be well-served by this next generation of lawyers.”
THE COLLEGIAL SPIRIT OF UVA LAW IN ACTION: A student placed an encouraging note in a library book for other students to find and contribute to, and later a professor found it and added his own message before returning it to the library. Will you find it?
ALEXANDER HOFFARTH ’18 HOMETOWN: Rochester, New York EDUCATION: Boston College, political science NEXT: Clerking for Judge Diane S. Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit, then working for Hogan Lovells, Washington, D.C. “IT’S A GENUINE NATIONWIDE LAW SCHOOL — my classmates come from all over and depart for all over — and you will find your classmates to be some of the most impressive people you have ever met. But you will also find that the students are down-to-earth and fundamentally care about one another. I cannot tell you how many times my classmates have sent along their notes without me asking for them [on days I missed class]. Where else can you find that?”
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS A Cappellate Opinions Advocates for Life at Virginia Law American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Barristers United Black Law Students Association Child Advocacy Research and Education
Common Law Grounds Domestic Violence Project Extramural Moot Court Federalist Society Feminist Legal Forum First Year Council Food Law at Virginia Association Graduate Law Students Association Health Law Association If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice at UVA Law JD/MBA Society
Jewish Law Students Association John Bassett Moore Society of International Law Korean American Law Student Association Lambda Law Alliance Latin American Law Organization Law Christian Fellowship Legal Advisory Workshops for Undergraduate Students The Libel Show Lone Star Lawyers Mindfulness in Law
Mock Trial at UVA Law Moot Court Board National Lawyers Guild North Grounds Softball League Outdoors at VA Law Peer Advisor Program Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society - Minor Inn Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team Public Interest Law Association Rex E. Lee Law Society Rivanna Investments South Asian Law Student
JENNIFER DAVIDSON ’18 HOMETOWN: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania EDUCATION: Dartmouth College,
THE BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION takes an annual service trip to Africa each year during winter break.
government and women’s and gender studies NEXT: Clerking for Judge Gregg Costa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, then for Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. “LAW SCHOOL UNQUESTIONABLY HELPED ME GROW so much as a person. I am leaving far more confident in myself, my abilities and the career I hope to build — but also leaving humbled by and grateful for all the amazing people I have met here, who I know will remain lifelong friends and do incredible things with their careers.”
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