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J.H. “Rip” Verkerke walks with UVA students
Students Research Legal Path to Recreating Historic Trail
February 22, 2017
A new class offered this semester by the University of Virginia School of Law, titled Conservation Planning and Law, is asking students to study the legal needs of Morven Farm, Monticello and other properties in this historic corridor near Charlottesville in hopes of knitting together a six-mile stretch of land that can be utilized — legally and seamlessly — as an educational trail.
Academics and Curriculum
Environmental Law
Experiential Learning
Fred Schauer
Seminal Works: Professor Frederick Schauer's 'Force of Law' Shakes Up Legal Theory
October 6, 2016
Just over a year after it was published, Professor Frederick Schauer’s “The Force of Law” (Harvard University Press, 2015), which argues for law’s power to coerce behavior as its distinctive feature, has spawned a raft of scholarly responses, lectures and symposia worldwide, and even a book dedicated to the topic. Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, recently paused to take stock of the attention the book has garnered.
Academics and Curriculum
Constitutional Law
Faculty
Legal History
Legal Theory and Jurisprudence
Clinic alums recently took the steps of the Supreme Court once more in celebration of the clinic's 10-year anniversary.
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic Celebrates a Decade of Wins and Influence
October 4, 2016
Matt Madden '07 was among a group of University of Virginia School of Law students signed up for a new clinic that had them doing some summer "homework" before the start of the school year — monitoring the federal appeals courts for cases that might attract the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court. Madden saw potential when he happened upon Watson v. United States .
Academics and Curriculum
Constitutional Law
Experiential Learning
Student Life