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Given that abolition of the death penalty is unlikely, opponents of it should press for the crimes to which it can be applied to be sharply narrowed, U.Va. law professor Richard Bonnie told the American Constitution Society .

James Madison didn't understand the importance of the First Amendment until 10 years after he authored it, said Vincent Blasi, who gave a lecture March 2 honoring his appointment as the James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called on a packed Caplin Auditorium audience of law students, faculty, and community members to participate in American democracy by being involved in public service.

Greenberg compared the political landscape before Brown to a frozen sea.

Brown v. Board of Education and last year's Lawrence v. Texas reveal how Supreme Court justices weigh their own beliefs in controversial cases that are not necessarily supported by conventional legal sources, according to law professor Michael Klarman.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will give the keynote address at the Fifth Annual Conference on Public Service and the Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

The progress on racial and social justice issues that the Warren Court began is now stalled, according to University of North Carolina law professor John Calmore.

Jack Greenberg, one of the NAACP lawyers who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education , the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in America's public schools, will give the keynote address at a University of Virginia School of Law symposium February 20-21.

Jokingly deemed by moderator Barry Cushman as the "thrilla in the pavilla," law professors John Harrison of Virginia and Robert Post of Yale Law School squared off Nov. 6 in Caplin Pavilion on the concept of constitutional originalism.

Conservatives' conception of classical legal liberalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is based on an idealized past that doesn't exist, said Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School's Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, at an event sponsored by the American Constitution Society

Law School students got a taste of what it's like to try a case at the appellate level Sept. 25, as a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments from three cases in Caplin Auditorium.

Political and economic integration is desired by Europe's national elites but not its ordinary citizens, who fear that a weakening of national sovereignty would cede control over their economic prerogatives, as well as endanger their own cultures, according to visiting professor Herbert Hausmaninger , a professor of law at the University of Vienna.

Law students and faculty packed into Caplin Pavilion Sept. 3 to hear professors Elizabeth Magill, Stephen Smith, and Law School Dean John Jeffries assess the rulings of the last session of the Supreme Court, a debriefing that customarily launches a new academic year.

Virginia's Albemarle and Loudoun counties are in the national spotlight as two localities where local governments' growth management techniques are arousing fear that traditional concepts of property ownership are being undermined, according to Christopher Byrnes, an associate attorney with Defenders of Property Rights, who spoke to a lunch gathering of students at the invitation of the Federalist Society Sept. 9.

Law Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui thought he knew how the Supreme Court would probably decide the already infamous Grutter v. Bollinge r case, in which University of Michigan applicants challenged the undergraduate and law school admissions policies.

Public participation in watershed management may be crucial to balancing a region's competing demands for water use and the desire to preserve the environment, said officials and scholars at "Improving Public Participation and Governance in International Watershed Management," an international symposium held April 18-19 at the Law School.

Justices risk compromising the dignity of the Supreme Court when they undertake other duties — such as Earl Warren's report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy — that distract them from their paramount judicial role, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said April 11 in a lecture at Caplin Auditorium sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of narrow-mindedly obstructing the appointment of new federal judges, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said April 10 in Caplin Auditorium.

When we think of national parks like Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and the Adirondacks today, we consider them to be national treasures and the people and organizations that helped found them as environmental heroes.

The war in Iraq is proof enough to Dr. Nareen Dezaye and Lara Dezaye, representatives of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who spoke at the Law School March 31, that their exile group's efforts to organize a new democratic government are fully justified.