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Law enforcement experts critique community policing and police culture during a panel discussion at the Law School. Panelists include Chief Bernadette DiPino of the Sarasota, Florida, Police Department; Joe Brann, founder and CEO of Joseph Brann & Associates; professor Rachel Harmon; and Charles Ramsey, a former Philadelphia police commissioner and former chief of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police. The panel was moderated by Timothy Longo, adjunct professor and senior program director of public safety administration at the UVA School of Continuing and Professional Studies. The event was sponsored by the School for Continuing and Professional Studies.

The University of Virginia and the Law School honored the legacy of its first black student, Gregory Swanson. The ceremony also included the presentation to law students Jah Akande and Toccara Nelson of the Inaugural Gregory H. Swanson Award, which recognizes students who embody courage, perseverance and commitment to justice. Speakers included Professors Kim Forde-Mazrui, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law; Dean Risa Goluboff; Monifa Love Asante, associate professor of English and modern languages at Bowie State University; Evans D. Hopkins, author and chair of the Swanson Legacy Committee; Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia; and Frank M. Conner III '81, rector of the University of Virginia.

Professor Deborah Hellman moderates the panel "Loving as a Means of Social and Legal Transformation" with Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui of UVA Law, and Professors Melissa Murray and Angela Onwuachi-Willig of the University of California, Berkeley. The event was part of a Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law symposium examining the legal legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia on its 50th anniversary.

Professor Micah Schwartzman moderates the panel " Loving’s Promise for LGBTQ Communities" with Holning S. Lau of the University of North Carolina School of Law, Doug NeJaime of Yale Law School and Catherine Smith of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The event was part of a Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law symposium examining the legal legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia on its 50th anniversary.

Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew moderates the panel " Loving’s Meaning" with Katherine Franke of Columbia University, Randall L. Kennedy of Harvard Law School and Robin A. Lenhardt of Fordham Law School. The event was part of a Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law symposium examining the legal legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia on its 50th anniversary.

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, delivers the keynote address at " Loving : Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."

Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed delivered the McCorkle Lecture on "Black Citizenship, Law, and the Founding."

Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch discusses the role of the legal profession in an era of significant polarization. Lynch spoke at UVA Law after receiving the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.

Key players in the U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas (2016) discuss its implications for the future of affirmative action policies in the United States.

Attiya Latif, president of UVA's Minority Rights Coalition, and Larycia Hawkins, Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at UVA's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, discuss how to develop solidarity in the wake of a particularly contentious election. UVA Law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law, introduces the speakers. The event was part of UVA’s Community MLK Celebration.

H. Timothy Lovelace, an Indiana University law professor and 2006 UVA Law graduate, delivers his talk, "King Making": Brown v. Board of Education and the Rise of a Racial Savior" as part of UVA’s Community MLK Celebration. The talk was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law

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.

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?"

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.

The Federalist Society presented a debate between Ward Connerly, the founder and president of the American Civil Rights Institute, and UVA Law Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui on the legality of affirmative action in higher education.

University of Virginia School of Law alumnus Michael Cody '61 and civil rights leader Julian Bond, a history professor in UVA's College of Arts & Sciences, shared their personal stories about Martin Luther King Jr. in a discussion Tuesday night at the Law School.

Virginia Supreme Court Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn '86 spoke Saturday at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of a conference on increasing diversity in the legal profession.

Powell '82, the first African-American woman to serve on Virginia's Supreme Court, spoke Nov. 10 at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of a conference on increasing diversity in the legal profession.

Kim Keenan '87, general counsel of the NAACP, spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of a conference on increasing diversity in the legal profession.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should be remembered as a symbol of a worldwide social movement, not just as a civil rights leader, a leading King scholar and historian said Monday at the Law School.

University of Virginia law professor Alex Johnson, former chair of the Law School Admissions Council and former dean of Minnesota Law School, discusses the black/white LSAT score gap and why law schools are not admitting African-American students at a rate proportional to the test-taking population.