Video & Audio

The Charlottesville community posthumously honored Gregory Swanson, a law student who was the first African-American student at UVA, with a ceremony at the downtown branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Swanson filed a lawsuit to gain admission to UVA and was admitted in 1950, paving the way for racial integration in schools. UVA Law Dean Risa Goluboff gives remarks starting at 14:30.

Michael Hollander and Rebecca Mroz, winners of the 2008 Lile Moot Court competition, talk about what it was like to argue on behalf of the United States against a fictional appellant who had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of tampering with evidence.

Members of the Cowan Fellows Human Rights Study Project, who traveled to India earlier this year to conduct research on human rights issues, presented their findings and experiences.