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The weekend of February 13-14 was one of great success for three Richmond Law moot court teams.Richmond competitors in the 2010 William B. Spong Invitational Moot Court Competition hosted by William & Mary's Marshall Wythe School of Law, returned with four awards. Third year student Andi Shultz and second year student Tricia Dunlap were the overall runners-up in the 17-school competition, and als
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The Honorable Edith Jones, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will lecture on the interplay between the rule of law and the creation of wealth. The event will take place at 6:00 PM on February 10th in the Law School's Moot Court Room. A reception with Chief Judge Jones will follow. The event is sponsored by the Richmond Law Federalist Society.Chief Judge Jones wil
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"Big Deals and Big Trouble," a program that will address the ethical and liability issues facing attorneys representing businesses in complex transactions, will be hosted by the Madison Inn Chapter of Phi Delta Phi at the University of Richmond School of Law, on Tues., Feb. 16, from 5-7 p.m. in the Law School Moot Court Room. The program is approved for 2.0 Virginia CLE ethics credits.
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Can Spain prosecute a former American Attorney General for war crimes, even if America and many other countries believe the alleged actions were entirely lawful?Prominent constitutional and international legal scholars will examine this and other pressing questions of authority and jurisdiction in a time of terrorism on Fri. Feb. 26, from 4:00-6:00 p.m., at the University of Richmond School of La
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Kelley H. Bartges, Clinical Professor of Law since 1994, passed away after a long illness on January 21. In her memory, Dean John Douglass delivered the following statement to the Richmond Law community:This morning, at home in the loving presence of her family and peacefully in her sleep, our beloved colleague Kelley Bartges passed away. Cancer finally took her life, though it never took her rem
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In a Des Moines Register guest op-ed column, Williams Professor of Law Carl Tobias urges President Obama and Congress to nominate and confirm qualified judges to fill the many vacancies in the federal court system. In Prof. Tobias' words, "These unfilled seats, which are 11 percent of the total, erode the delivery of justice."Read the column. ...
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Richmond Law alumni and the Law School community are invited to our annual Law Weekend on October 16-17. Friday events will include the Austin Owen Lecture, "What Have We Learned? A Reality-Based Approach to Addressing Domestic Violence Through the Law," delivered by Professor Diane Rosenfeld from Harvard Law School, followed by the Annual Fall Gathering.Saturday's events will be held at Richmond
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The University of Richmond Law Review will host a symposium Nov. 12 at 4:00 p.m. in the Law School's Moot Court Room, bringing together Virginia legal experts to address a controversial decision in criminal law: Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. For criminal attorneys in Virginia, the decision and the implementation of legislation recently passed by the General Assembly represent a sizable shift in
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Williams Professor of Law Carl Tobias wants some empty seats filled.A long-time scholar and observer of the judicial selection process, Prof. Tobias has in recent months become increasingly vocal about Congress' glacial pace in filling the 95 current court vacancies around the nation. Since President Obama took office and the present Congress convened, only three district or court of appeals judg
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As a part of National Pro Bono Celebration Week, the Harry L. Carrico Center for Pro Bono Service will host the following eventsOctober 26, Noon.Law Over LunchLeslie A.T. Haley, Assistant Ethics Counsel, Virginia State Bar, and G. Andrew Nea, Jr., Pro Bono Partner, Williams Mullen, will discuss the common ethical issues that attorneys may encounter when undertaking pro bono representation, from t
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Video is now available from the School of Law's 16th Annual Austin Owen Lecture, What Have We Learned? - A Reality-Based Approach to Addressing Domestic Violence Through the Law held on October 16, 2009. Professor Diane Rosenfeld, Lecturer at Harvard Law School, discusses with other experts progressive legal initiatives to better and more realistically address the persistent social problem of dom
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The University of Richmond Law Review is proud to announce the publication of its 2009 Annual Survey of Virginia Law. The Law Review publishes the Annual Survey each year as a comprehensive guide to recent legislative, administrative, and judicial developments in the Commonwealth of Virginia.This year's edition is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. and features trib
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will return to the University of Richmond to resume his teaching career in law and leadership studies after his term in office ends in January.Kaine, a Harvard Law School graduate who also has served as mayor of Richmond and lieutenant governor, has accepted a joint appointment in the University's School of Law and Jepson School of Leadership Studies. He will also h
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Rick Klau is, by his own description, a "proud graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law." Now business product manager for Blogger at Google Inc., Klau, L'96, credits Richmond Law as the place where he "really learned how to think critically, learned how to argue...and learned how to be an entrepreneur" in a recent posting to his blog.While a law student, Klau was founder-editor of Th
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In an op-ed piece for the McClatchy newspaper chain, Williams Professor of Law Carl Tobias urges Congress to confirm the two nominees for judgeships on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Judges Albert Diaz and James Wynn.http://www.mcclatchydc.com/340/story/80843.html ...
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