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The American Law Institute recently approved a restatement on children and the law co-authored by Professor Richard Bonnie ’69, among other achievements and recognition for members of the University of Virginia School of Law community.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Cale Jaffe received a UVA Excellence in Public Service award for, among other accomplishments, his efforts to preserve a historic Black schoolhouse in Cumberland County, Virginia.

NFL executive Dasha Smith, a 1998 alumna of the University of Virginia School of Law, told this year’s graduating class that she wanted to impart three lessons that helped her take risks in her own career.

Clinic students at the University of Virginia School of Law worked with state lawmakers to draft bills on foster care, behavioral health, human trafficking and other policies that were recently signed into law.

UVA Law’s LGBTQ+ student organization, Lambda Law Alliance, honored two alumni, Susan Baker Manning ’98 and Cordel Faulk ’01, for their contributions to the community at a gala marking its 40th anniversary.

Although she had been practicing law for nearly a decade, when University of Virginia School of Law alumna Elizabeth Anne Laningham Bellamy ’09 moved to a city on the border of Virginia and Tennessee, she realized she wasn’t exempt from taking both bar exams because she had only been working part-time while caring for her kids.

Former White House officials Melody Barnes and John Bridgeland ’87 talk about how to work together across differences and strengthen democracy on the latest “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.

The Virginia Tax Study Group has been meeting at the University of Virginia School of Law for more than 30 years. This year, some of the nation’s leading experts in tax law will convene to discuss the global minimum tax proposal and a Supreme Court case that could upend the U.S. tax code.

George Triantis, an alumnus and former faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named dean of Stanford Law School.

History was made last week when the U.S. Senate confirmed Virginia’s first Asian American federal judge, Jasmine Yoon, who holds two degrees from the University of Virginia.

David Tejtel, a 2007 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, helped successfully challenge Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package in February.

Katharine Janes, a 2021 J.D.-M.A. graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will clerk for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2024 term.

University of Virginia School of Law alumnus and retired Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark recounts his journey from law school to the courtroom to bestselling novelist.

Thanks to an $11 million boost from an anonymous donor, the University of Virginia School of Law has met its $400 million goal for the Honor the Future capital campaign.

Alumna Dasha Smith, executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the NFL, has been selected as graduation speaker by the Class of 2024 at the University of Virginia School of Law.