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Andrew Hayashi, an expert in tax law, tax policy and behavioral law and economics, will join the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law this summer. Hayashi, who is currently the Nourallah Elghanayan Research Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York

Ruth Mason, an expert in international and comparative taxation, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in the fall. Mason, who is currently a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, will begin teaching at Virginia as a professor of law in August. She expects to

An upcoming symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will bring together experts in corporate law, academia, venture capital, angel investing and crowd funding to discuss the potential business and legal ramifications of the Jumpstart Our Business Start-Ups Act. ( Full schedule ) "Game

Is it ethical, or even legally acceptable for doctors to approve one last dance by a reality TV show contestant if it could lead to permanent damage to his back? These are the kinds of legal questions University of Virginia law professor Dr. Gil Siegal tackled recently when he led the design of a

Every corporate law student learns that in America, directors and officers face liability for breaching their fiduciary duties — duty of loyalty, good faith and care — to their shareholders. But for a while now that hasn't been entirely true in Nevada, according to University of Virginia law

It's not hard for law students to learn about the legal operations of publicly traded companies — the information on the companies' finances and governance is, after all, public. But students interested in the private equity field are getting an inside look this semester at an industry that is more

Update : "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The Future of Financial Regulation" with Ethiopis Tafara (Podcast): Ethiopis Tafara, director of the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of the the

Jeffrey O'Connell, a pioneer of insurance law reform and a member of the University of Virginia School of Law's faculty for 32 years, died Sunday. He was 84. "By seeing the connection between tort law and insurance law, Jeff O'Connell transformed both and influenced scholars, judges, and legislators

The measure approved late Tuesday to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff" is a bad deal, according to University of Virginia law professor and tax policy expert George Yin . "On a scale from one to 10, with 'one' meaning 'horrible,' this bill is a zero," said Yin, who was chief of staff of the U.S

A University of Virginia law clinic argued before a federal appeals court today for the release of information that may shed light on the causes of the financial crisis in 2008. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard an appeal by insurance and

Update : "Judge Paul Michel '66 on the U.S. Patent System" (Video, Podcast). Paul Michel '66, who held the nation's top judicial position focused on intellectual property law matters as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 2005-10, delivered the keynote address at a

The law on when and whether public officials can be held liable for violating constitutional rights is incoherent, says Professor John C. Jeffries Jr. in a forthcoming Virginia Law Review article. John Jeffries In " The Liability Rule for Constitutional Torts ," Jeffries observes that currently

University of Virginia law professor John Morley, an expert in mutual fund regulation, trusts and estates, and corporate governance, has been named director of the Law School's Law & Business Program . The Law & Business Program, which integrates business and legal analysis in the law school

Through a new clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, law students are providing free legal services to startup companies founded by students at UVA's Darden School of Business. In the Transactional Law Clinic, which launched as a trial course in the spring and officially begins this

Conventional wisdom holds that strong copyright and patent laws are necessary to encourage creativity. Without such protections, the thinking goes, competitors are free to steal ideas, create knockoffs and drain profits from innovators. Yet a number of major industries — fashion, cuisine, open

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the employment discrimination case of a woman being represented by the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. Clinic instructor David Goldberg said the case could have a widespread impact on how harassment lawsuits are

Though many critics have pegged the U.S. Supreme Court's First Amendment doctrine as incoherent, the court's opinions have long shown a definable pattern, argues University of Virginia law professor Leslie Kendrick in her latest article. Leslie Kendrick In " Content Discrimination Revisited ,"

Car insurance looked very different when University of Virginia law professor Jeffrey O'Connell first began studying it in the 1960s. It was expensive for policyholders, and 45 percent of seriously hurt accident victims weren't compensated at all. The cost of car accidents — auto damage, medical

University of Virginia School of Law professor Michael Dooley , a widely recognized expert in corporate law and longtime chair of the Graduate Program Committee, is retiring after more than four decades at the Law School. Dooley, who joined Virginia Law in the fall of 1971, said he will miss the Law

In response to a motion prepared by students in the University of Virginia School of Law's First Amendment Clinic , a federal judge on Monday ordered American International Group Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission to publicly release corporate monitor reports on AIG leading up to the