Recent Articles by
Mary Wood
April 13, 2015
Monday’s Founder’s Day celebrations featured several U.Va. public events, including talks by the three recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, the University’s highest external honors.
April 10, 2015
Andrew Chen has been awarded a prestigious, two-year Equal Justice Works Fellowship that will allow him to provide legal aid to homeless youths in Los Angeles. “A big goal of this project is to give kids a second chance,” he said.
March 19, 2015
Even as big banks bore the brunt of the blame for the 2008 financial crisis, they held the upper hand in shaping the new regulations that followed – repeating a historical pattern, writes Paul G. Mahoney in “Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails.”
March 04, 2015
Donoghue was just the third woman elected to the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations based in The Hague, Netherlands.
February 11, 2015
Explaining why she pursued a career in public service, she said, “The way I look at it is, you’re put on the earth for a reason and you’re put on the earth to make a positive difference somewhere, somehow, for someone other than yourself.”
January 20, 2015
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that an Arkansas inmate could wear a beard according to his religious beliefs, in a case argued by University of Virginia School of Law professor Douglas Laycock.
December 23, 2014
Law students will seek new forensic testing as they investigate whether a man was falsely convicted of a 1999 murder in Baltimore, a case that gained notoriety through a hit podcast.
November 24, 2014
At issue is whether a Pennsylvania man’s comments on social media constitute a “true threat” that lies outside free speech protections.
October 21, 2014
The Supreme Court Litigation Clinic’s 12th case to reach the highest court in the land involves a fascinating question: Can the government prevent the sale of a convicted felon’s legally owned firearms, even if they were unrelated to his crime?
October 13, 2014
Under pressure to resolve cases and facing deep-pocketed opposition, prosecutors often cut backroom deals that fall far short of what might result from a courtroom trial, Brandon Garrett alleges in “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”