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Va. Law Enforcement Agencies Fail to Improve Eyewitness ID Policies, UVA Law Professor Finds 26 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
Nearly two years after Virginia rolled out a model policy to improve local law enforcement agencies' eyewitness identification procedures, the vast majority of agencies across Virginia have failed to ...
Lauren Schnyer '15 on Interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 23 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
Second-year-year University of Virginia law student Lauren Schnyer spent her summer at The Hague, interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She wrote this postcard du...
Class of 2016 Brings Diversity of Experiences to UVA Law 21 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
Meet the University of Virginia School of Law's Class of 2016, which was selected from a pool of 6,067 applicants, earned a median undergraduate GPA of 3.87 and received a median LSAT score of 169.
Orientation Speaker Sarah Borders '88 on Her Career Path, the One Thing She Wishes She'd Known Before Law School 15 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Sarah R. Borders, a 1988 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and a partner in King & Spalding's Financial Restructuring Practice Group, will be the featured speaker at the Law School'...
New Policy to Reduce Stiff Drug Sentences Is 'Only a First Step,' UVA Law Professor Says 13 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett said the change in the Department of Justice's policy on low-level drug offender sentencing has been "far too long in coming" but also raises sever...
Caitlin Eberhardt '15 on Helping Indigenous Women in Guatemala 8 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
Rising second-year University of Virginia law student Caitlin Eberhardt is spending the summer in Guatemala, working for the Women's Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization that aims to help indi...
We Took the Bar Exam, and These Are the UVA Law Classes That Helped Most 5 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
Members of the University of Virginia School of Law's class of 2013 took the bar exam last week. After the exam wrapped up, we asked a few of the soon-to-be-lawyers to share what courses at UVA Law th...
Bagley Co-Authors Major International Patent Law Casebook 1 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
University of Virginia law professor Margo Bagley has co-authored the first stand-alone casebook focusing on international patent law in more than a decade.
UVA Law Students Help Teen Human Trafficking Victim Gain Lawful Immigration Status 31 Jul 2013 | 06:56 pm
Two University of Virginia law students recently played a key role in obtaining lawful immigration status for a teenager from El Salvador who was forced to smuggle drugs across the desert and into the...
UVA Law School Sets New Donor Record in Annual Giving 29 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
The University of Virginia School of Law completed its 2012-13 annual giving campaign with a record-breaking 8,893 donors, and for the eighth consecutive year more than 50 percent of alumni made donat...