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UVA law professor Frederick Schauer discusses Supreme Court decisions involving the First Amendment from the 2014 term, including one involving Confederate flag–themed license plates. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 24, 2015)

UVA law professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Kerry Abrams discusses the meaning and impact of the Supreme Court gay marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 24, 2015)

UVA law professor A. E. Dick Howard discusses the past Supreme Court term, how the Roberts Court is shaping up, and what's coming this term. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 24, 2015)

Professors A. E. Dick Howard, Kerry Abrams, Frederick Schauer and Risa Goluboff discuss key cases from the recent U.S. Supreme Court term, and look ahead to the coming year. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 24, 2015)

Professor Anne Coughlin explains how to read a case to first-year students during an event hosted by the Black Law Students Association. (Sept. 17, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

Brig. Gen. Richard Gross, a member of the U.S. Army JAG Corps, is legal counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. His talk was given as part of the National Security Law Institute, sponsored by the Center for National Security Law. (June 3, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

University of Virginia law professor Molly Shadel, a former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, explains the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including how it can and cannot be used. Shadel, a senior fellow with the Center for National Security Law, spoke as part of the 2015 National Security Law Institute. (June 9, 2015, University...

UVA Law Professor John Norton Moore, director of the Center for National Security Law, leads a class on the history of the international law of conflict management at the National Security Law Institute. (June 1, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

Professor Risa Goluboff discusses Marbury v. Madison and the creation of judicial review in a mock constitutional law/civil rights class held for admitted students. (March 20, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

Professor Josh Bowers and UVA Law students talk about the Program in Law and Public Service during an admitted students open house. (March 20, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law) More: http://bit.ly/11XXs7S

NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith '89 delivers the commencement address to the Class of 2015, and Dean Paul Mahoney and Student Bar Association President Alex Matthews also speak to the audience. (May 17, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law) More at http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2015_spr/graduation.htm

Professor John Duffy tells admitted students about the Intellectual Property Program at UVA Law.

Deirdre Enright, director of the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law, discusses opportunities for students in the for-credit and pro bono clinics during an admitted students open house. (March 20, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law) More: http://bit.ly/hyioVI

Professor A. E. Dick Howard speaks to UVA Law alumni on the importance of the Magna Carta to today's legal traditions during 2015 Alumni Weekend. (University of Virginia School of Law, May 9, 2015)

University of Virginia School of Law professor A. Benjamin Spencer discusses the state of civil procedure and why it matters in connection to access to the courts and the U.S. justice system. Spencer spoke during the Alumni Board and Council lunch. (May 8, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

The 86th annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition features third-year law students Trevor Lovell and Nate Bilhartz (representing the petitioner) and Rhett Ricard and Brett Rector (for the respondent). Judges Thomas Griffith '85 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Roy McLeese of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Pamela Reeves of the U.S. District Court fo...

Karen Moran, co-director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, offers graduating students a memorable farewell and words to live by at the annual Charge to the Class. (April 21, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

Richard Goldstone, a former chief prosecutor of the U.N. international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, discusses war crimes and the mechanisms for holding those who committed them accountable, including the International Criminal Court. Goldstone served as a judge in South Africa for 23 years, the last nine as a justice of the Constitutional Court. (April 13, 2015, Univers...

Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate who covers the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke about gender representation and the four women who have been justices. Lithwick is writing a book on the subject. (April 14, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

Robert Pozen, a former chairman of MFS Investment Management, a noted author and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, speaks at "The 1940 Acts at 75: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisers." Paul Schott Stevens ’78, president and CEO of the Investment Company Institute, offers introductory remarks. Sponsored by the Virginia La...

Daniel M. Gallagher, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, delivers the keynote address at "The 1940 Acts at 75: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisers." Sponsored by the Virginia Law & Business Review, the event was run in partnership with the Investment Company Institute and the John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Busin...

International Court of Justice Judge Joan E. Donoghue, the first American woman to serve on the World Court, discusses the influence of common law and civil law legal traditions on the court. Dean Paul G. Mahoney introduces Donoghue, the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law. (April 13, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)More at http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/new...

Professor Mimi Riley discusses her working paper, "An Unfulfilled Promise: Changes Needed to the Drug Approval Process to Make Personalized Medicine a Reality." (April 6, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

Stephen Jones, the lead public defense attorney for Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case, has been attached to high-profile cases involving alleged acts of terrorism and disloyalty stretching back to the Vietnam War. (April 1, 2015, University of Virginia School of Law)

In an April 1 talk at the University of Virginia School of Law, NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith '89 spoke about his experiences as chair of a white-collar crime practice group at a D.C. law firm, serving as counsel to then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and the 2011 NFL player lockout.