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ACLU attorney Ben Wizner, who has represented whistleblower Edward Snowden, spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law on March 25 about protecting privacy in an era in which government organizations and businesses wish to gather increasing amounts of information about people's everyday lives. Wizner, the director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, is introduced by UVA Law pr...

UVA Law professor A. E. Dick Howard and William & Mary law professor Tom McSweeney discussed the impact of Magna Carta on both American and English law in honor of its 800th anniversary this year. The event, sponsored by the Federalist Society at UVA Law and the Student Legal Forum took place on March 25 at the University of Virginia School of Law.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Mimi Riley and Timothy Jost from Washington and Lee University School of Law discussed the Supreme Court case challenging Obamacare, King v. Burwell, and the future of the Affordable Care Act. The Health Law Association sponsored the event at UVA Law on March 23.

Richard Goldstone, an adjunct professor at UVA Law, is the former chief prosecutor of the U.N. international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He served as a judge in South Africa for 23 years, the last nine as a justice of the Constitutional Court.

Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, a 1992 LL.M. graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses how the U.S. constitutional structure affects the work of a federal judge on March 6 at UVA Law. As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, O’Scannlain has participated in over 11,000 federal cases and has written hundreds of published opinions on a broad range of subjects i...

Deirdre Enright, director of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, discussed the clinic's work, post-conviction relief and the clinic’s involvement with the "Serial" podcast during a talk on March 3 at UVA Law.

"Race Declassified: Post-Racial Divisions" with UCLA law professor Cheryl Harris, was sponsored by UVA Law's Center for the Study of Race and Law on Feb. 26, 2015, along with the UVA Program in Women, Gender & Sexuality; the UVA Departments of Politics, Sociology, English and History; the Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity; the Associate Dean for the Social Sci...

As part of a symposium sponsored by the student-run Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, participants discussed Virginia's sentencing laws. With John Monahan, John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia; Meredith Farrar-Owens, legislative director, Virginia Sentencing Commission; Linda Bryant, Virginia deputy attorney genera...

Professors David Martin and John Harrison discuss executive amnesty in regards to immigration during a talk at the University of Virginia School of Law on Feb. 26, 2015. As principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security from January 2009 to December 2010, and as general counsel to the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1995 to 1998, Martin was closely involved in...

Civil rights pioneer Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke at the University of Virginia School of Law on Feb. 24. He discussed the fight for racial and social justice in the post-Jim Crow landscape of the South in the 1960s and '70s, as well as the challenges facing the civil rights movement in the 21st century.

Vaccaro, the sports marketing pioneer who signed Michael Jordan to his first sneaker deal and a former executive at Nike, Adidas and Reebok, delivered the keynote address at the 2015 Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal symposium on Feb. 20. More at http://bit.ly/1AOpV2j

UVA Law professor Josh Bowers discusses his writing process and his paper "Legality and Rough Justice" as part of the Faculty Ideas in Progress series.

During a lecture for the January Term course The Law of Body Parts, Dr. Kenneth Brayman, division chief of transplant surgery at the University of Virginia, discussed the history of organ donation and current issues affecting the market and health care professionals.

What's Next for "Serial" Investigation, with Deirdre Enright and UVA Law students Katie Clifford '15, Mario Peia '15, Jessica Saba '16, Kristin Sourbeer '16 and Vanessa Vogler '16. In the next several weeks, the project and UVA law students will draft and file a request for forensic testing, the results of which could shed light on the case of Adnan Syed, a Baltimore man sentenced to life for the...