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Ralph Baxter '74 offered career tips to students Sept. 12.

After a toughly worded opinion from the Supreme Court slapping down the Bush administration’s detention of terrorism suspects without criminal charges, the president’s response, a Military Commissions Bill, also looks problematic.

Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin spoke on seven principles students interested in public service should live by at the public interest student group kick-off meeting.

The Hon. John Charles Thomas '75, former Virginia Supreme Court justice and now partner at Hunton & Williams, welcomed the Class of 2009 at orientation Aug. 21.

Dean John C. Jeffries, Jr. welcomed the Class of 2009 at orientation Aug. 21.

The Class of 2006 faces tough challenges ahead and should “go out and shake up the world,” said best-selling author David Baldacci during his commencement address at the Law School May 20.

Author David Baldacci spoke at Law Alumni Weekend about how he turned from law to writing and his experiences since then.

Dean John C. Jeffries Jr. '73 delivered his annual State of the Law School address to alumni in town for Reunion Weekend May 6.

Professor Anne Coughlin delivers the annual Charge to the Class, an inspirational speech to graduating students.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain is the most comprehensive attempt yet to explain the role of international law in U.S. courts, but the issue remains clouded with uncertainty, said William B. Fletcher, a judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, at the Ola B. Smith Lecture April 20.

Americans should turn to universal principles, such as the concept of personal responsibility, to decide whether their society should follow a tolerant religious model or a tolerant secular model, said Jefferson Medal in Law recipient Ronald Dworkin at a lecture April 12.

A gathering of those close to Armstead Robinson convened to discuss his intellectual legacy in Caplin Pavilion at an event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law and the Black Law Students Association.

Kevin Anderson, an attorney from Wiley, Rein, & Fielding (WRF), explained their strategy in prosecuting Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the Blackberry wireless platform, for patent infringement against their client, NTP.

Attorneys from McGuireWoods discussed how to succeed as a summer associate.

The Constitution was far more democratic, slavocratic, geostrategically motivated and unfinished at its inception than contemporary wisdom often suggests, Yale Law School Professor Akhil Amar explained during a panel discussion of his most recent book, America’s Constitution: A Biography.

Is honor relevant to future lawyers? "Ethical advocacy—honorable advocacy—is good advocacy," argues Professor Earl Dudley Jr. at an event sponsored by the Student Bar Association and the Honor Committee.

Public service lawyers are the perfect models for how to face the decisive issues of the 21st century while upholding the values and ideas of the Constitution, said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

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Nonviolent civic resistance movements have been the most powerful forces in creating democracies, according to Peter Ackerman, the keynote speaker for the J.B. Moore Society of International Law symposium, "Democracy in the Middle East: Prospect for Political Reform” Feb. 24.

The controversial use of extraordinary renditions to interrogate or detain suspected terrorists has evolved since its first use by the United States in 1995, but the practice fails to address concerns about torture and may be ineffective in quashing terrorism, said panelists at a Feb. 16 discussion at the Law School.

Although political pressure, lawsuits, and even the U.S. Department of Justice helped initiate the statistical tracking of racial profiling, police also may have discovered something that helped them change their ways, according to Professor Brandon Garrett.

Increasing cooperation between nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations is creating a new type of diplomacy, attorney Owen Pell '83 explained during a lecture Feb. 6 at an event sponsored by the Career Services office.

Virginia death-row inmate Earl Washington's exoneration due to DNA testing may have changed forever how Virginia handles death penalty cases. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, details lessons learned from the case and proposes further reforms to criminal investigations and trials.

While U.S. officials in the past have made mistakes regarding the treatment of detainees, the Department of Defense and lawmakers are taking steps to clarify procedures and ensure that the United States is transparent in its policies, said panelists.

While U.S. officials in the past have made mistakes regarding the treatment of detainees, the Department of Defense and lawmakers are taking steps to clarify procedures and ensure that the United States is transparent in its policies, said panelists at a Nov. 17 discussion at the Law School of the treatment and interrogation of detainees.