Recent Articles by
Eric Williamson
March 17, 2017
A new website compiling the opinions, publications and speeches of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s career on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is launching just in time for hearings on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
February 28, 2017
Loretta Lynch, who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States, will receive the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law.
January 18, 2017
The “Making a Murderer” star and UVA alumnus shared with School of Law students on Tuesday how truthful storytelling can be persuasive in court. Strang is a lecturer for the January term course, “Persuasion.”
January 06, 2017
Sensing an explosion in the industry, George Kliavkoff left his job at the largest and most profitable privately held media company in the United States to help globalize Jaunt VR, a young company promising to revolutionize cinematic virtual reality.
January 03, 2017
What effect will Donald Trump’s election have on the legal landscape? Who can use which bathroom? Will affirmative action in college admissions survive? UVA law professors ponder those questions and more.
December 05, 2016
Professors, students and alumni are part of a team seeking to challenge “Virginia’s form of debtors’ prison.”
November 11, 2016
“No human endeavor is error-free,” UVA law professor Brandon Garrett says. In fact, studies have found a one-in-18 error rate for fingerprint comparison and a one-in-six error rate for bite-mark comparison.
October 20, 2016
Students with the Migrant Farmworker Project at UVA’s School of Law annually check in on local farms to ensure the workers get the pay and fair treatment to which they are legally entitled.
August 23, 2016
Former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brings his expertise in national security, administrative law, and the federal courts to the University of Virginia’s School of Law.
June 30, 2016
A.E. Dick Howard, one of the chief architects of Virginia’s constitution, and three colleagues say the law supports Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s decision to restore voting rights to convicted felons who have completed their sentences.