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Richard Cohen '79 spoke to alumni at Reunion Weekend about race relations and hate crimes following the election of President Barack Obama.

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

As both a prominent health law scholar and a former patient once hospitalized and restrained against her will during a long struggle with schizophrenia, Elyn Saks has a unique perspective on how to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.

Stephen Black, founder of Impact Alabama and grandson of Justice Hugo Black, and Professor Daniel Nagin, the director of the Family Resource Clinic, present "Yes We Can? Race, Poverty and Progress in America."

Professor Kenneth S. Abraham delivered the Charge to the Class of 2009 on Tuesday in a packed Caplin Pavilion.

More than a dozen Law School students and graduates will spread throughout the United States and the world this summer to undertake prestigious internships that address the world’s most pressing human rights issues.

Using the scientific method to scrutinize forensic investigative techniques would improve the criminal justice system and cut down on wrongful convictions, the recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law said Monday.

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.

Eight students spent three weeks in Cambodia this January as Human Rights Study Project Cowan Fellows, a program designed to promote awareness of legal issues surrounding human rights in foreign countries.

Expert advocates in the field of gay rights discussed the recent constitutional challenges to California's Proposition 8 at an ACLU-UVA Law event with David B. Cruz, professor of law at USC Gould School of Law, and Sharon McGowan, staff attorney of the ACLU LGBT Project.

Civilian courts can handle the legal challenges of terrorism cases if they undergo minor reforms and refinements, a district court judge told law students and professors at the 22nd Annual Sokol Colloquium on Private International Law Thursday.

When ruling on free speech cases – even ones involving repugnant actions such as cross burning – it’s important to focus on protecting the Constitution, not individual people, the chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court said at the Law School Friday.

Sarah Lock, the vice president of the Office of Policy Integration for the AARP, spoke to the Law School during a Colloquium on Health Care Reform.

Jonathan Rusch '80, deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section, advises students on how to navigate the professional world following graduation.

Skadden program administrator Susan Butler Plum spoke to students March 24. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation provides funding for law students who wish to devote their professional lives to providing legal services to the poor, the elderly, the homeless and the disabled.

Gordon Todd '00 and Kosta Stojilkovic '04, both former U.S. Supreme Court clerks, discuss effective oral advocacy during a Student Legal Forum talk March 24 at the Law School. Todd and Stojilkovic are associates at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C.

Some Islamic traditionalists in Muslim countries are trying to chip away at basic human rights, despite constitutional protections, a women’s rights activist said at the Law School Friday.

Philip Schrag and David Kenny read from their book "Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America" on March 19 at an event sponsored by the Immigration Law Program and the Charlottesville Amnesty International chapter as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Legislative reform efforts in Iraq have improved over the past few years, but challenges remain in critical areas such as human rights reporting and minority rights, an international lawyer told the Law School at a talk sponsored by the Human Rights Program on Tuesday.

Attorneys who work and write about international arbitration gathered at the Law School on Feb. 27 to discuss issues surrounding the growing practice.

The current economic crisis is not without precedent, but the notion that deregulation was the sole cause doesn’t bear up under close scrutiny, a panel of experts said at the Law School last week.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, now more than 10 years old, has been both a blessing and a curse to users and producers of technology and media, according to panelists who spoke Friday at a Virginia Journal of Law and Technology symposium.

Keenan, president-elect of the Washington, D.C., Bar spoke about life after law school during a lunch sponsored by the Black Law Students Association. Keenan is currently the principal of the Keenan Firm in Washington, D.C., where her practice has focused on complex medical malpractice litigation and litigation consulting....

Botswana's health future remains fraught with challenges despite the nation's exemplary governance, a Law and Medical School professor told students Monday.

Greg Kisor, Intel's former chief patent technologist and chairman of the U.S. JPEG Committee, spoke about patent licensing issues Feb. 19 at the Law School.