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University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock discusses Town of Greece v. Galloway, a U.S. Supreme Court case he argued in November 2013 that may clarify the legal limits on public prayer in government meetings across the country. His talk was sponsored the Law Christian Fellowship and the Secular Legal Society.

A lot has changed in the last five decades at UVA Law — just ask Professors A. E. Dick Howard and Peter Low, who this term are celebrating 50 years since they began teaching here.

Wayne Pacelle, CEO and president of the Humane Society of the United States, gave at talk at UVA Law titled "Animal Protection in the 21st Century: Finding Clarity in Our Tangled, Contradictory Relationship with Animals."

Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, discusses the changing nature of covering the U.S. Supreme Court in a talk at UVA Law sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Risa Goluboff explores the ways constitutional change can happen during a lecture marking her appointment as John Allan Love Professor of Law.

UVA law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui discusses how the government looks at racial inequality during a Oct. 31, 2013, lecture marking his appointment as Mortimer M. Caplin Professor of Law. His talk was titled "The Canary-Blind Constitution: Must Government Ignore Racial Inequality?"

Robert Post, dean of Yale Law School, delivers the keynote address for "Compelled Commercial Speech," the second Jefferson Symposium, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the Journal of Law & Politics.

Richard Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, delivers the second annual BeVier Lecture at UVA Law.

Marsha Levick, deputy director, chief counsel and co-founder of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, gives the keynote address at the UVA Law Child Advocacy Clinic's 15th anniversary conference.

Laurence Steinberg, a leading authority on psychological development during adolescence, delivered the P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry at UVA Law.

Robert Sussman, former senior counsel for the EPA, delivered the keynote address at the Virginia Environmental Law Journal symposium, "The Promise and Limits of Presidential Action on Climate Change" on Oct. 9.

University of Virginia law professor John Duffy discussed current thought on legal innovation and pointed to ways forward in an Oct. 8 chair lecture marking his appointment as Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law.

Michael J. Klarman of Harvard Law School offers a revision of the conventional understanding of the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution during the McCorkle Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Law.

University of Virginia law professor Dan Ortiz delivers a chair lecture in which he focuses on citizens as consumers, rather than people who make choices that the political system is designed to aggregate with other citizens' choices and carry out.

Marco Simons of EarthRights International and University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett discuss corporate liability in U.S. courts for global actions.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind, a 1981 graduate of the University of Virginia's College of Art's and Sciences, and Kurt Wimmer, leading First Amendment lawyer and Suskind's attorney, speak about their years locked in a legal battle with the Bush administration.

University of Virginia School of Law professors A.E. Dick Howard, Kerry Abrams, Kim Forde-Mazrui and Risa Goluboff analyze and discuss the most important Supreme Court decisions of the past term.

A diverse panel of third-year University of Virginia law students share what they wish they’d known as 1Ls interested in public service jobs on the topics of courses, internships, morale and mentoring.

Sarah Robinson Borders, a 1988 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and a partner in King & Spalding's Financial Restructuring Practice Group, welcomed the Law School's Class of 2016 at orientation Aug. 19.

Andrew Block, director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, talks about the goals of the clinic, and clinic students Jake Spilman and Emily Kveselis discuss their work on behalf of a juvenile offender.

Students Elizabeth Reese '15 and David Short '15 argue a mock appellate case before a panel of alumni judges and a student as the culmination of the Legal Research and Writing course. The course and oral arguments are a rite of passage for first-year law students at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Frederick Hitz, a distinguished fellow at the Center for National Security Law, a former statutory inspector general at the CIA, spoke on predator drones and targeted killings at the National Security Law Institute at UVA Law.

M.E. "Spike" Bowman, a distinguished fellow at the Center for National Security Law and a former senior counsel for national security law at the FBI, spoke on transnational terrorism at the National Security Law Institute at UVA Law.

Stewart A. Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security and former general counsel for the National Security Agency, spoke on cyber threats as part of the National Security Law Institute at UVA Law.

University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard gives a talk on "How Constitutional Ideas Travel: The Influence of the American Constitutional Experience on Other Countries and Cultures."