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Andrew K. Block Jr., former director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law and an attorney who has reformed state law concerning youths, talks about his work as director of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice. He addresses his background as a public interest lawyer and law professor and the impact it had on his decision to become director of the departmen...

Professor Alexander Aleinikoff, law professor and former dean at Georgetown University Law Center, discusses potential solutions to the global refugee crisis in his talk, "Towards a Global Compact for Refugees?" Aleinikoff is one of the world's foremost experts on immigration and refugee law, and recently completed five years of service as the U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva,...

H. Timothy Lovelace, an Indiana University law professor and 2006 UVA Law graduate, delivers his talk, "King Making": Brown v. Board of Education and the Rise of a Racial Savior" as part of UVA’s Community MLK Celebration. The talk was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law (University of Virginia School of Law, March 15, 2016)

Thomas R. Pickering, former undersecretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, delivers the 2016 Henry Abraham Lecture, presented by Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. (University of Virginia School of Law, March 4, 2016)

University of Virginia School of Law professor Margo Bagley delivers her lecture, 'Thou Shalt Not Steal': The Morality of Limits on Pharmaceutical Patents," to mark her appointment as Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law. (University of Virginia School of Law, Feb. 23, 2015)

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine discusses his path into public office as a first-generation Haitian immigrant whose legal career spans work as a public defender and White House attorney, to managing partner of a large D.C. firm. He also addresses his service as the first elected attorney general for the District, and his vision for the office. (University of Virginia School of...

UVA Law professors John Harrison, Micah Schwartzman and Frederick Schauer join Slate senior editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick in analyzing Justice Antonin Scalia's legacy and the looming nomination battle. Co-sponsored by Virginia Law Democrats, the American Constitution Society and the ACS Virginia Lawyer Chapter, the event was moderated by Schwartzman. (University of Virginia School...

A panel of academics discuss UVA Law professor Risa Goluboff's new book, "Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s." In addition to Goluboff, the panelists are John Fabian Witt of Yale Law School, Laura Kalman of the University of California Santa Barbara History Department; and Anne Coughlin and G. Edward White of UVA Law. Dean Paul Mahoney provides opening...

Professor Brandon Garrett talks with Voice of America's Victor Beattie about what Justice Antonin Scalia's death means for the future of the court. (University of Virginia School of Law, Feb. 15, 2016)

University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan explores risks, mental states and culpability during a chair lecture marking her appointment as the Harrison Robertson Professor of Law. (University of Virginia School of Law, Feb. 3, 2016) Watch the video on YouTube: http://bit.ly/20Fxu8N

University of Virginia School of Law professor Risa Goluboff discusses her new book, "Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change and the Making of the 1960s," which details the history of vagrancy laws in the United States, and important lessons the book holds for today. Watch the related video: http://bit.ly/1nw52EK

Assistant Dean and Chief Admissions Officer Cordel Faulk gives his personal story about how he got into law school, talks LSAT strategy and explains why "there's no rubric" to getting into Virginia Law. Read the related story: http://bit.ly/1Qof5GY

Director of Admissions Grace Applefeld Cleveland, Assistant Director of Admissions Holly Bennett and Director of Financial Aid Jennifer Hulvey comment on what works, and what doesn't work, in personal statements and applicant interviews. Read the related story: http://bit.ly/1Qof5GY

Director of Admissions Grace Applefeld Cleveland and Assistant Director of Admissions Holly Bennett detail how the process works, and Assistant Dean and Chief Admissions Officer Cordel Faulk discusses the "two-way street" that's integral to the process. Read the related story: http://bit.ly/1Qof5GY

In the her fall National Security Law class, Professor Ashley Deeks discusses military targets and the use of drones, along with other national security law issues. Deeks previously served as the assistant legal adviser for political-military affairs in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, and as the embassy legal adviser at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, during Iraq’s constit...

Professor John C. Jeffries Jr., an expert in civil rights, federal courts, criminal law and constitutional law, leads his Civil Rights Litigation class. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 28, 2015) Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/A0-oGmnL7lc.

Professor Nelson Lund of George Mason School of Law and UVA Law professors Toby Heytens and Gordon Hylton discuss an article co-authored by Professor Lund that lays out four ideas for fixing what he sees as a problem of judicial celebrity — a problem that he says negatively impacts the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 23, 2015)

The panel includes U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, a fair-tax advocate; Becky Norton Dunlop, of the Heritage Foundation and a flat tax advocate; UVA Law professor George Yin, the former chief of staff of the U.S. Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation, one of the most influential tax positions in the country; and Scott Hodge, president of the Tax Foundation, who specializes in dynamic scoring. The moderator...

Professors Leslie Kendrick, Charles Barzun, Toby Heytens, George Cohen, George Geis and Caleb Nelson offer tips about preparing for and taking law school exams. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 16, 2015)

With the proliferation of data and technology, new threats to national security are coming, Benjamin Wittes explains in a talk about his book, "The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones – Confronting a New Age of Threat." A senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, Wittes is co-founder of the Lawfare blog and member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force...

Professor Saikrishna Prakash, an expert in presidential powers, talks about his new book, "Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive," during a talk for Alumni Board and Council members. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 6, 2015)

Goldman Sachs managing director and Law School adjunct professor Jim Donovan shares his insights on managing and cultivating client relationships. Donovan is responsible for advising many of the largest corporate and individual clients of Goldman Sachs. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 6, 2015)

J. Herbie DiFonzo of Hofstra Law School, Richard F. Hamm of State University of New York at Albany Department of History, Reuel E. Schiller of University of California, Hastings College of the Law and Patricia Hagler Minter of Western Kentucky University Department of History discuss their work and celebrate the legacy of University of Virginia legal historian Charles McCurdy during the panel " Ad...

Barry Cushman of Notre Dame Law School, Stephanie Hunter McMahon of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Logan Everett Sawyer of the University of Georgia College of Law and Victoria Saker Woeste of the American Bar Foundation discuss their work and celebrate the legacy of University of Virginia legal historian Charles McCurdy during the panel "Federalism, Law and the Economy," moderated b...

Michael Shapiro, deputy assistant administrator for water with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, delivers the keynote address for the Virginia Environmental Law Journal Symposium, "Water Rights in the Eastern United States." Shapiro's office is responsible for federal programs to restore and protect the nation's waterways and ensure safe drinking water. (University of Virginia School of La...