Members of the Molly Pitcher Project at the U.Va. Law School are celebrating the role they may have played Thursday’s announcement opening the way for women to take combat roles in the U.S. military.

Law school courses generally introduce theory, and then apply it to reality. A new January Term course focusing on entrepreneurship is taking the opposite approach.

Two U.Va. law professors warned of dire consequences should the U.S. Supreme Court strike down some provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A new report from a committee led by U.Va. law professor Richard Bonnie recommends major changes in how U.S. courts treat juvenile offenders.

Until recently, Virginia and Massachusetts were the only two states that lacked a written code governing the use of evidence in state trials. Thanks in large part to U.Va. law professor Kent Sinclair, that distinction now belongs to Massachusetts alone.

A new report from the Child Advocacy Clinic at the U.Va. School of Law raises some major questions about the state’s religious exemption from public school compulsory attendance laws, and the responsibilities placed on local school systems to enforce them.