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Postcard From Abroad: 2L Rachel Gallagher's Summer Job in Myanmar

August 11, 2017

University of Virginia School of Law student Rachel Gallagher ’19 used her $6,500 Public Interest Law Association grant to fund her work this summer investigating human rights abuses and researching ongoing human rights violations.

Experiential Learning

Law Library Creates Database of UN Human Rights Documents

July 11, 2017

For the first time, a new online database curated by the University of Virginia School of Law Library compiles the preparatory documents for nine international human rights conventions created by the United Nations. The treaties featured in the Travaux Préparatoires project form the core of the U.N

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Human Rights

Scholarship and Research

Third McCurdy Fellow Will Examine Human Rights in the Middle East

June 9, 2017

Catherine Baylin Duryea was studying Middle Eastern history and culture at American University in Cairo in 2009 when she learned that one of her classmates had been arrested. Duryea found herself swept up in an organizing effort working for her classmate’s release. “All of the people who had the

Human Rights

Legal History

Professor Mila Versteeg Wins Carnegie Fellowship

April 26, 2017

Mila Versteeg , a University of Virginia School of Law professor who studies the world's constitutions, has been named a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Versteeg is one of 35 fellows nationally to each receive the $200,000 award, given by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to fund significant

International and Comparative Law

Scholarship and Research

The War-and-Peace Professor

March 17, 2017

Professor John Norton Moore is an influential figure in the realms of national security and oceans policy who is celebrating 50 years of teaching at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

UVA Lawyer

Students' Trip to Zambia Marks 15 Years of the Human Rights Study Project

March 14, 2017

The challenges facing Southern Africa are worlds away from Charlottesville, Virginia, but a recent trip to the region by eight University of Virginia School of Law students brought the everyday concerns facing Zambians to life. Students in the Human Rights Study Project , called Cowan Fellows

Experiential Learning

Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

Student Life

The War-and-Peace Professor

March 9, 2017

Professor John Norton Moore is an influential figure in the realms of national security and oceans policy who is celebrating 50 years of teaching at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Faculty

Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

UVA Lawyer

Law Students Help Seasonal Farm Workers Know Their Rights

October 19, 2016

Each fall, students with the Migrant Farmworker Project at the University of Virginia School of Law check in on 13 farms in the region to ensure seasonal agricultural workers get the pay and fair treatment they are entitled to under the law.

Law Students Help Seasonal Farm Workers Know Their Rights

October 19, 2016

Breaking the Cycle of Genocide

May 31, 2016

As a litigator with White & Case in New York throughout his career, and a partner since 1991, Owen Pell '83 has represented clients in an array of high-profile matters, including large securities fraud cases, foreign sovereign immunity and historical reparation matters, and in many international

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Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

UVA Lawyer

Professor Mila Versteeg Wins UVA Law's McFarland Prize for Scholarship

May 26, 2016

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Mila Versteeg , who is among a small group of scholars to be the first to employ empirical methods in comparing the world's constitutions, has been awarded the Law School's Carl McFarland Prize.

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Human Rights

Scholarship and Research

Law Students Research a Path to Peace in Colombia

March 31, 2016

Students in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law recently traveled to Bogota, Colombia, to examine the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the largest guerrilla group in the South American country.

Human Rights

Scholarship and Research

David Martin, Jacqui Merrill, Taylor Steffan and Matt Brooker

In the Desert and on the Docket, UVA Law Students Give Back During Alternative Spring Break

March 20, 2015

From helping poor defendants on crowded court dockets in New York and Louisiana, to providing relief to migrants in the Arizona desert, University of Virginia School of Law students aided legal and humanitarian efforts last week as volunteers through an alternative spring break program. The law

Cowan Fellow Brian Kennedy Shares Travelogue from Human Rights Research Trip to Ghana

March 31, 2014

Third-year law student Brian Kennedy, a 2013-14 Cowan Fellow and president of the student-run Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, wrote a detailed travelogue of this year's research trip to Ghana. For Kennedy, the visit to the country was his fourth. Brian Kennedy

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Student Stories

UVA Law Students Win First Place in Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition

March 13, 2014

A team of three University of Virginia School of Law students earned a first-place finish in the distinguished Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition , held March 1-8 in Sintra, Portugal. In winning the competition, the team — third-year law students Virginia Newman, Jessica Thompson

Experiential Learning

Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

Student Life

Faculty Q&A: Mila Versteeg on the Declining Influence of the U.S. Constitution

September 23, 2011

The U.S. Constitution is not nearly as strong of an influence on other countries' constitutions as it was in the past, according to a forthcoming article co-authored by University of Virginia School of Law professor Mila Versteeg . Versteeg, who co-wrote the paper, " The Declining Influence of the

Legal Theory and Jurisprudence

Scholarship and Research

Panel Examines Earthquake's Effect on Safety of Haitian Women

September 24, 2010

Haitian women are particularly vulnerable to violence and attack in the wake of January’s devastating earthquake, according to a panel of experts who spoke at the Law School on Monday. The panel, led by Professor Deena Hurwitz , discussed gender-based violence in Haiti since the earthquake. In the

Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

Students Will Tackle Human Rights Problems Through Variety of Internships

April 17, 2009

More than a dozen Law School students and graduates will spread throughout the United States and the world this summer to undertake prestigious internships that address the world’s most pressing human rights issues. “Our students have a lot of initiative,” said Associate Professor of Law Deena

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Human Rights

Public Service

Dana Jupiter: Blurry Lines in Monitoring Sex Trafficking

April 9, 2009

At the students’ hotel — a safe and clean tourist establishment — signs of the sex trade were everywhere. “There were just a lot of older white men with young Cambodian women,” explained third-year law student Dana Jupiter. Not just a little older — 60- and 70-year-old men with 20-something women.

Human Rights

International and Comparative Law

Student Life

Gabriel Walters: Khmer Rouge Tribunal May Not Offer Justice for All

April 9, 2009

Third-year law student Gabriel Walters had an insider’s access to the lawyers, officials and NGO staff connected to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, but there was one problem. “No one wanted to be on the record,” Walters said. His tape recorder often went unused and he frequently put down his pen as a show

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Student Life