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University of Virginia law professor Michael Gilbert and Joseph Birkenstock, a lawyer with the law firm Caplin & Drysdale, discuss super PACs — independent political action committees that can contribute to candidates or parties but without any legal limit on donation size — and the role they played in the 2012 election.

The Federalist Society at UVA Law hosted the American Enterprise Institute's Charles Murray, who spoke on an aspect of his most recent book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010."

As part of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law's 2013 symposium, "Theory and Practice," University of Virginia law professor Anne Coughlin and Covington & Burling attorney Megan Keane discuss their efforts to challenge the military's ban on women in combat.

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.

Professor Michael Gilbert presents his latest paper, "Disclosure and the Information Tradeoff," which challenges conventional thinking about disclosure of money in politics. He spoke at a student scholarly lunch, hosted by Professor J.H. Verkerke.

Trevor Potter, a 1982 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, spoke at Virginia Law's 2012 Alumni Weekend about campaign finance, the First Amendment, election law and his role as Stephen Colbert's lawyer on the Colbert Report.

Professors Douglas Laycock, Micah Schwartzman and Lois Shepherd discussed the legal implications of President Obama's recent decision to require coverage of contraception in all health insurance.

Robert Bauer ’76, general counsel to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and a former White House counsel, said Monday that an anti-reform movement has been dismantling rules that aim to protect confidence and integrity in government.

Panelists Marc Elias, Trevor Potter and John Samples discuss the impact of the Citizens United decision.

Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos and Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin discussed racial and income-based inequalities in education on Nov. 11 at the Law School.

The ongoing debate over man-made global warming came to Caplin Pavilion on Oct. 11, as skeptics and advocates discussed the science and policy implications of climate change.

Altering climate change regulations is a task that starts and ends with the states, according to a pair of experts who spoke last week at a Law School symposium sponsored by the Virginia Environmental Law Journal.

Four years ago, the tightly contested precursor to this year’s gubernatorial race between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds led to a recount and new procedures for Virginia elections, the general counsel of the Republican Party of Virginia told students Monday.

Karen Musalo, clinical professor of law and director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at U.C. Hastings College of Law, discusses new U.S. policy on asylum for battered women.

Whether White House policy advisors, or czars, have too much power is a policy question rather than a legal one, Professor John Harrison told Congress on Tuesday.

In her new book, "If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo," Lois Shepherd, UVA associate professor of biomedical ethics and professor of law, details why simple answers were not right for Schiavo or for end-of-life decisions in general.

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."

Jennifer Roback Morse, a former economics professor, spoke about alternatives to feminism Feb. 12 at an event sponsored by the Federalist Society.

Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., from the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, discussed guaranteed health care in America at the Law School Nov. 20 as part of the Sadie Lewis Webb Lecture Series. Emanuel is a breast oncologist, philosopher and author/editor of several books.

Two legislative staffers spoke about their efforts to advance racial reconciliation through political means at an event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law on Nov. 12. With Keenan Keller (pictured), counsel for Rep. John Conyers, and James Park, legislative counsel for Rep. Steve Cohen.

Partisan gridlock and interest groups threaten to stifle future health care reform despite a Democratic-majority government, health policy analyst Carolyn Engelhard told Law School students Thursday.

Environmentally friendly and energy efficient “green” building practices have caught on remarkably in recent years, but both the government and the private sector could do more to promote such construction, a panel of experts said Friday during a symposium at the Law School.

Economist John Lott spoke about his book, "Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't," at a Federalist Society event Thursday.

The election system needs reform to keep residents of long-term care facilities safe from political disenfranchisement and voter fraud, a bioethicist said Friday at the Law School.

Onerous federal regulations enacted after the collapse of Enron haven’t helped the way American corporations are governed, a federal judge said in a recent address at the Law School.