Professor Larsen Guests on The Colbert Report

Professor Allison Orr Larsen recently joined Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert to talk about the Supreme Court and the trouble with amicus facts. Watch the clip (04:26).  Read more.

Reading Room Named for Alumnus R. Harvey Chappell, Jr.

Members of the Law School community and the Chappell family remembered distinguished alumnus R. Harvey Chappell, Jr. '48, B.C.L. '50, LL.D. '84 at a celebration for the naming of the Chappell Reading Room in the Wolf Law Library.  Read more.

Classroom Dedicated in Honor of Professor John Donaldson

The Law School formally dedicated the Donaldson Classroom (Room 127) on Nov. 6 in honor of John E. Donaldson J.D. '63, the Ball Professor of Law Emeritus.  Read more.

Protecting First Amendment Liberties At and Beyond Our Borders   

In The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties, Professor Timothy Zick invites readers to examine the First Amendment not in domestic places like public parks and streets, but at and beyond America's territorial borders. Read more about the book and watch the interview.

Cell Phone Searches and the Law  (Video) 

Professors Paul Marcus and Adam Gershowitz discuss the impact of the Supreme Court's decision involving police search of cell phones and unanswered questions arising from it. Watch the video.

Law School Receives DOJ Grant for Domestic Violence Clinic  

The grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women will provide more than $250,000 over two years to expand the services of the clinic. Read more.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine Addresses Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic Conference 

 The December 5 conference brought together national, state, and local leaders and experts to discuss the actions being taken to adapt to flooding and coastal change in Virginia. Read more.

Distinguished legal scholar Richard A. Epstein received the faculty's highest honor on Oct. 29. Epstein's books include Takings: Private Property Under the Power of Eminent Domain. Read more.

Michael M. Berger of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips was honored with the 2014 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize during the 11th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. He is the first lawyer to receive the prize. Read more.

Chancellor Professor of Law Ronald H. Rosenberg has been honored with an appointment to the Virginia State Bar Board of Governors for the Environmental Law Section. Read more.

The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) welcomed Will A. Gunn, former general counsel for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for the inaugural lecture in the students' L. Douglas Wilder Speaker Series. Read more. BLSA also recently sponsored a screening of the award-winning film Fruitvale Station, followed by a panel discussion.  Read more.

The Law School's faculty and students took the Ice Bucket Challenge and, in the process, raised more than $1,000 for ALS research. Read more.

James Sandman Talks to Students about Leadership and Integrity during McGlothlin Leadership Forum

Sandman, president of Legal Services Corporation, met with students here in October during the 4th annual forum. The forum is named in recognition of James W. McGlothlin '62, J.D. '64, LL.D. '00. Read more.

You can now read all 400 past issues of law student newspapers in our Scholarship Repository, created by the staff of the Wolf Law Library. Read more.

Professor Ronald H. Rosenberg, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chancellor Professor of Law, and Director, American Legal System Graduate Program and Foreign Exchanges

Professor Jennifer Stevenson, Associate Director, American Legal System Graduate Program

Ms. Lynne Harmon, Assistant Director, International Programs Office