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Professor John Duffy tells admitted students about the Intellectual Property Program at UVA Law. (March 20, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

The 86th annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition features third-year law students Trevor Lovell and Nate Bilhartz (representing the petitioner) and Rhett Ricard and Brett Rector (for the respondent). Judges Thomas Griffith '85 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Roy McLeese of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Judge Pamela Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee preside.

Karen Moran, co-director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, offers graduating students a memorable farewell and words to live by at the annual Charge to the Class.

Most attorneys leave law school and start their jobs before working directly with a client focused on growing a business. But students in the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law are able to act as general counsel for a startup company before they even graduate.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Jon Cannon's 'Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court' offers a legal and cultural assessment of the modern environmental movement, using 30 of the most influential Supreme Court cases in the past 40 years.

Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate who covers the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke about gender representation and the four women who have been justices. Lithwick is writing a book on the subject.

International Court of Justice Judge Joan E. Donoghue, the first American woman to serve on the World Court, discusses the influence of common law and civil law legal traditions on the court. Dean Paul G. Mahoney introduces Donoghue, the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.

UVA Law students brought more than 120 teams together to play softball and raise $20,000 for the Charlottesville charity ReadyKids last weekend.

Richard Goldstone, a former chief prosecutor of the U.N. international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, discusses war crimes and the mechanisms for holding those who committed them accountable, including the controversial International Criminal Court.

Daniel M. Gallagher, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, delivers the keynote address at "The 1940 Acts at 75: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisers." Sponsored by the Virginia Law & Business Review, the event was run in partnership with the Investment Company Institute and the John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program.

Robert Pozen, a former chairman of MFS Investment Management, a noted author and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, speaks at "The 1940 Acts at 75: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisers." Paul Schott Stevens ’78, president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute, offers introductory remarks. Sponsored by the Virginia Law & Business Review, the event was run in partnership with the Investment Company Institute and the John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program.

The Université Paris II Panthéon Assas ("Boniere" in the video), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights ("Mabuhay") and National University of Singapore ("Nanpo") teams compete in the final round of the Jean-Pictet Competition, and Singapore is later named the winner.

Professor Mimi Riley discusses her working paper, "An Unfulfilled Promise: Changes Needed to the Drug Approval Process to Make Personalized Medicine a Reality."

In an April 1 talk at the University of Virginia School of Law, NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith '89 spoke about his experiences as chair of a white-collar crime practice group at a D.C. law firm, serving as counsel to then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and the 2011 NFL player lockout.

Stephen Jones, the lead public defense attorney for Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case, has been attached to high-profile cases involving alleged acts of terrorism and disloyalty stretching back to the Vietnam War.

UVA Law professor A. E. Dick Howard and William & Mary law professor Tom McSweeney discuss the impact of Magna Carta on both American and English law in honor of its 800th anniversary this year. The event, sponsored by the Federalist Society at UVA Law and the Student Legal Forum took place on March 25 at the University of Virginia School of Law.

ACLU attorney Ben Wizner spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law on March 25 about protecting privacy in an era in which government organizations and businesses wish to gather increasing amounts of information about people's everyday lives. Wizner is introduced by UVA Law professor Josh Bowers, co-director of the Program in Law and Public Service.

More than 500 University of Virginia School of Law students signed this year's Student Bar Association Diversity Pledge. The statement of respect and tolerance, now in its ninth year, kicked off Diversity Week events, which began Monday.

Professors Timothy Jost, from Washington and Lee University School of Law, and Mimi Riley of the University of Virginia School of Law discussed the upcoming Supreme Court case King v. Burwell.

Professor Josh Bowers and UVA Law students talk about the Program in Law and Public Service during an admitted students open house.

Deirdre Enright, director of the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law, discusses opportunities for students in the for-credit and pro bono clinics during an admitted students open house.

Richard Goldstone, an adjunct professor at UVA Law, is the former chief prosecutor of the U.N. international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He served as a judge in South Africa for 23 years, the last nine as a justice of the Constitutional Court.

University of Virginia School of Law Dean Paul G. Mahoney's new book, "Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails," counters prevailing ideas that a flurry of regulations solve financial crises.

Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain discusses how the U.S. constitutional structure affects the work of a federal judge.

Deirdre Enright, director of investigation for the University of Virginia School of Law's Innocence Project Clinic and its pro bono clinic efforts, talks about post-conviction relief and the work of law students on the Adnan Syed case, which was featured on the hit podcast "Serial." Enright's talk was sponsored by the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, the Virginia Innocence Project and Themis Bar Review.