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As President Donald Trump prepares to leave office, can he give himself a presidential pardon? An expert panel focuses on the constitutional basis of the pardon power, its history and limits, the relationship between pardoning and impeachment, and the legal and political implications of an attempt by the president to self-pardon. The panelists are UVA Law professor John C. Harrison; Michigan State University law professor Brian Kalt; Stanford University professor Bernadette Meyler; and UVA Law professor Micah Schwartzman, director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.

UVA Law professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan discusses some of the philosophical problems she explores in her new book “Reflections on Crime and Culpability: Problems and Puzzles.”

Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit speaks at UVA Law about the importance of state constitutions in constitutional jurisprudence. He argues that lawyers miss many opportunities to use state constitutions to their advantage, instead limiting themselves to arguments based on the U.S. Constitution. Dean Risa Goluboff introduces Sutton at the event, a discussion of Sutton’s book, “51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law,” hosted by the Virginia Law Review and the Journal of Law & Politics.

John Norton Moore, UVA Law professor and director of the Center for National Security Law, analyzes the complex nature of war. Moore’s talk was held as part of the 26th National Security Law Institute hosted by the Center for National Security Law.

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, spoke at the Law School about his research into recent U.S. Supreme Court cases involving business litigation. He argued that the Supreme Court may not always exhibit the conservative or pro-business slant that many commentators expect it to. Easterbrook gave this talk on the occasion of receiving the 2018 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.

Professor Benjamin Spencer, one of the nation's leading experts in civil procedure, teaches incoming law students about the life of a case.

Professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan examines legal theories for how to handle criminal cases of defendants who suffer from dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan explores risks, mental states and culpability during a chair lecture marking her appointment as the Harrison Robertson Professor of Law.

One way the U.S. criminal justice system departs from other common law countries is its abiding faith in democratic and market-based processes, UVA Law professor Darryl Brown says in his new book, "Free Market Criminal Justice."

University of Virginia School of Law professors Molly Shadel and Anne Coughlin instruct new law students on how to analyze and understand cases during a fall 2014 event.

Marcia Coyle, the chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal, a national weekly newspaper that covers law and litigation, delivered the Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture on April 4, 2014, at the University of Virginia School of Law.

University of Virginia law professor John Duffy discussed current thought on legal innovation and pointed to ways forward in an Oct. 8 chair lecture marking his appointment as Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law.

University of Virginia law professor Dan Ortiz delivers a chair lecture in which he focuses on citizens as consumers, rather than people who make choices that the political system is designed to aggregate with other citizens' choices and carry out.

University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard gives a talk on "How Constitutional Ideas Travel: The Influence of the American Constitutional Experience on Other Countries and Cultures."

Robert Cary '90, partner at Williams & Connolly, discusses his experience defending U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and the importance of fairness in prosecuting the law.

University of Virginia law professor Steven Walt explores why jurisprudence is unnecessary for understanding customary international law during a chair lecture on April 25.

Florida State University law professor Dan Markel discussed the role of morality in criminal law during the inaugural Virginia Journal of Criminal Law symposium on April 7.

Judge Michael Boudin delivered the McCorkle Lecture in Caplin Pavilion on Feb. 24

Lawmakers’ intentions are not irrelevant to statutory interpretation, contrary to the rhetoric of some legal thinkers, Professor Caleb Nelson said last week.

Professor Frederick Schauer examined whether thinking like a lawyer is unique to the legal profession at an alumni luncheon on April 30. Schauer is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.

The law favors the individual at the expense of society, Philip K. Howard ’74 said Tuesday at a lecture sponsored by the Student Legal Forum.

Professor Josh Bowers discussed prosecutorial charging discretion in petty public order cases at a lunch-time talk Thursday. Prosecutors have almost unfettered discretion to decline or pursue criminal charges, Bowers said, but there are several reasons why they are ill-suited to consider the normative merits of potential charges.

Professor Jeremy Waldron explored the appropriate place of religion in public discussions on government and policy last week during the Law School’s Meador Lecture on Law and Religion.

Establishing the rule of law after a military intervention is increasingly about relationship building and less about institutional improvements, said Professor Thomas Nachbar, who spoke to students Tuesday during a J.B. Moore Society of International Law event

Professor Bob Cochran of Pepperdine University School of Law discusses Christian beliefs and the practice of law.