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A lot has changed in the last five decades at UVA Law — just ask Professors A. E. Dick Howard and Peter Low, who this term are celebrating 50 years since they began teaching here.

Third-year University of Virginia law student Archith Ramkumar and Lyle Kossis were the winners of the 84th annual William Minor Lile Moot Court competition.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Michael Dooley, a widely recognized expert in corporate law and longtime chair of the Graduate Program Committee, is retiring after more than four decades at the Law School.

Students and Virginia Law Review Notes Editor Karl Herrmann discuss the academic journal tryout process at the University of Virginia School of Law in the spring of 2012.

Kevin Donovan, senior assistant dean for career services at the University of Virginia School of Law, offers advice and support to graduating students during his Charge to the Class of 2012 in Caplin Pavilion on April 11.

The 357 members of the University of Virginia School of Law’s entering Class of 2014 were selected via the most competitive application process in the school’s history and boast the highest-ever median undergraduate grade-point average.

When experts testify in court about big-picture data, such as how often eyewitnesses are wrong or the impact of basing job promotions on standardized tests, they follow guidelines developed in part by UVA law professor Larry Walker, who is retiring this summer after 33 years at Virginia.

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan spoke at the Law School's Alumni Weekend on April 30, 2011. Dean Paul G. Mahoney introduced Sullivan.

Third-year law students Christopher Cariello and Daniel Gocek were named winners Saturday of the 82nd Annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition.

Professor Anne Coughlin offers advice and support to graduating students during the Charge to the Class of 2011 in Caplin Pavilion on April 13.

The Law School has named third-year law student Peggy Nicholson the 10th Powell Fellow, an honor that will fund her work on behalf of children in the juvenile justice system in North Carolina.

Professor James Ryan appeared Monday in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a client of the Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Professor A.E. Dick Howard presents an information session on the Law School's study abroad programs.

Angela Ciolfi '03, a child advocacy lawyer and legal director of JustChildren, a program of the Legal Aid Justice Center, welcomed first-year, transfer and exchange students to the Law School on Aug. 16.

Unforeseen and unimaginable opportunities await newly minted lawyers, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ’82 told the Class of 2010 during the Law School commencement ceremony Sunday.

When Lillian BeVier entered law school in California in 1961 she was one of five females in her class. By the time she finished teaching her last lecture at the University of Virginia School of Law this semester, women made up nearly half of the first-year class.

Third-year law students Alex Ibrahim and John Moran won the 81st Annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition, a Law School tradition in which 175 contestants competed over the course of two years.

Students “made it work” at the Public Interest Law Association auction Saturday. The annual event, which featured a “Project Runway” theme, raised about $50,000 after expenses for grants funding students who take public service jobs over the summer.

Kevin Donovan, a former litigation partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, has joined the Law School as head of the Office of Career Services.

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.

Dean Paul G. Mahoney spoke about the state of the Law School during Law Alumni Weekend on May 2.

Third-year law students Benjamin Holley and Lee Peifer won the 80th Annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition on Saturday, completing a two-year process that ended with them arguing a case in front of a panel of federal appeals court judges.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a 1983 graduate of the Law School, has been nominated as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level post. President-elect Barack Obama announced his decision today.

Students in a new clinic hope to win exoneration for innocent people convicted in Virginia.

Students and instructors talk about what it's like to participate in the Supreme Court litigation clinic. The yearlong clinic allows students to work on actual Supreme Court cases under the supervision of law faculty and practicing attorneys.