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UVA Law professors Douglas Laycock and Kim Forde-Mazrui discuss the implications of Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court case holding that same-sex couples have a right to marry under the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Professor John C. Jeffries Jr., an expert in civil rights, federal courts, criminal law and constitutional law, leads his Civil Rights Litigation class.

ACLU attorney Ben Wizner spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law on March 25 about protecting privacy in an era in which government organizations and businesses wish to gather increasing amounts of information about people's everyday lives. Wizner is introduced by UVA Law professor Josh Bowers, co-director of the Program in Law and Public Service.

Civil rights pioneer Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law on Feb. 24. He discussed the fight for racial and social justice in the post-Jim Crow landscape of the South in the 1960s and '70s, as well as the challenges facing the civil rights movement in the 21st century.

UCLA law professor Cheryl Harris, an expert in critical race theory, discusses how race and class became competing legal arguments for addressing inequality, and the implications today. This event was sponsored by a range of organizations across Grounds, including UVA Law's Center for Study of Race and Law.

During the UVA Law Board of Trustees and Alumni Council meeting on Nov. 7, 2014, University of Virginia School of Law professor Kerry Abrams addresses the evolution of same-sex marriage rights in the U.S. over the past decade.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Douglas Laycock discusses Holt v. Hobbs, the religious liberty case he argued Oct. 7 before the Supreme Court. Laycock represented an Arkansas inmate who seeks to wear a beard, in accordance with his Muslim faith. Professor Micah Schwartzman provides additional commentary on the case.

UVA Law Professors Barbara E. Armacost, Douglas Laycock and Richard C. Schragger give their take on the Hobby Lobby contraceptive case before the Supreme Court.

UVA Law Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui and the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky discuss the current state of affirmative action in the United States from differing perspectives.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Charles Thomas '75 urges vigilance to protect advances made by the Civil Rights Movement.

UVA law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui discusses how the government looks at racial inequality during a Oct. 31, 2013, lecture marking his appointment as Mortimer M. Caplin Professor of Law. His talk was titled "The Canary-Blind Constitution: Must Government Ignore Racial Inequality?"

Robert Post, dean of Yale Law School, delivers the keynote address for "Compelled Commercial Speech," the second Jefferson Symposium, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the Journal of Law & Politics.

Richard Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, delivers the second annual BeVier Lecture at UVA Law.

Marsha Levick, deputy director, chief counsel and co-founder of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, gives the keynote address at the UVA Law Child Advocacy Clinic's 15th anniversary conference.

Laurence Steinberg, a leading authority on psychological development during adolescence, delivered the P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry at UVA Law.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind, a 1981 graduate of the University of Virginia's College of Art's and Sciences, and Kurt Wimmer, leading First Amendment lawyer and Suskind's attorney, speak about their years locked in a legal battle with the Bush administration.

UVA Law Professor Dan Ortiz hosts a discussion of Lawrence v. Texas and its changing role in American law on the decision's 10th anniversary, in a talk sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

Professor Douglas Laycock lectures on religious liberty and the culture wars to mark his appointment as the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Professor Risa Goluboff and Ridge Schuyler, former Virginia Counsel for Obama for America, discuss the recent argument in Shelby County v. Holder, the case challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

What does it mean to lead the general counsel's office for one of the oldest and most respected civil rights organizations in the country? Kim Keenan '87 discusses her work at the NAACP and her distinguished career in both the public and private sectors.

Mary Bauer '90, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center and an alumna of the University of Virginia School of Law, speaks as part of the University of Virginia's annual commemoration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Looking back to the nation's first law protecting civil rights after the end of slavery offers fresh insight into lingering questions still debated today, University of Virginia law professor George Rutherglen says in his new book.

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Dan Ortiz discussed recent voter ID laws and other factors that may influence results in the upcoming election at a Oct. 3 lunch talk sponsored by the Virginia Law Democrats.

University of Virginia law professor Josh Bowers looks at arrests that may be "pointless indignit[ies]" but also "constitutionally reasonable" during a faculty workshop July 10 at the Law School.

Hayley Gorenberg, deputy legal director for Lambda Legal and lead counsel in the civil rights organization's New Jersey marriage equality case, spoke to students in the Law and Public Service Program seminar about her career in public service. Lambda is focused on ensuring the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV.