Law

This is the first semester of a yearlong clinical course providing students the opportunity to work with nonprofit organizations and assist with legal issues in their formation and day-to-day operations.

This is the first semester of a yearlong clinical course offering law students the opportunity to gain practical legal experience involving timely free speech and press issues.

This is the first semester of a year-long clinical course that gives students first-hand experience in human rights advocacy under the supervision of international human rights lawyers.

The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic fits within the Law School's Program in Law, Communities, and the Environment (PLACE). Students in this semester-long clinic have the opportunity to work on real-world environmental cases in a variety of venues - before courts, administrative agencies and public utility commissions.

This is the first semester of a yearlong course that requires students to participate in case work in both the fall and spring semesters. Students will learn basic information about various consumer protection statutes while doing exercises covering the entire range of client representation.

This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic in which students represent low-income clients in a variety of legal matters pertaining to their health needs.

In this 1st semester of a year-long clinic, clients come from diverse backgrounds and frequently have unusual factual scenarios that bring them to the doors of Legal Aid. Students will be expected to work with the clients and understand what they want and what can be pursued through available legal mechanisms. The Clinic will focus on complicated asylum cases arising out of emerging areas of the law as well as other cases.

In this clinic, students will work on cases that have potential to provide real and concrete relief and legal support to people and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights. Students will provide direct representation to individual clients as well as engage in impact advocacy.

This course deals with legal and business issues that arise in representing emerging-growth technology companies, with a particular emphasis on venture capital transactions, liquidity events, intellectual property, and corporate formation, governance, and capital structure.

This course explores the most common evidentiary challenges in litigation, in addition to covering important trial strategy and components (opening & closing statements, and jury selection). The keys to success include forms of proof where the factual foundations are challenging, the law demands unexpected elements to support offered proof, or the unwritten aspects of trial practice interfere with "textbook" efforts to get proof in the record.

This seminar will consider the theory and practice of drug product liability litigation lawsuits before, and now after, the Supreme Court's recent landmark decision in Wyeth v. Levine (2009). We will consider the legal principles governing such lawsuits, such as inadequate warning; the learned intermediary doctrine; and medical causation.

This is the 1st semester of a year-long course using a mock litigation as a lens for studying issues in international tax law. The case study may implicate domestic tax law of any jurisdiction, tax treaties, and EU law. Students will be given a fact-pattern and will identify legal issues raised by the fact pattern. Students will draft briefs for both the government and taxpayer on the issues raised by the mock litigation.

This course is the first half of a year-long clinic. Students in this clinic provide research and analytical assistance to members of the Virginia General Assembly, officials in state executive branch agencies, and/or local government officials as they develop legislative or policy proposals and, when appropriate, assist their government clients in advocating for the proposals or legislative ideas they develop.

Many federal defendants are serving sentences in excess of what they would receive for the same offense today, due to errors in the original case, changes in law that were not made retroactive, and/or evolving community standards. Students in this clinic will work to reduce the sentences of indigent federal defendants and gives students a unique opportunity to practice in federal court.

The Holistic Youth Defense Clinic will provide students an opportunity to practice holistic and zealous lawyering by representing juvenile clients on delinquency matters, as well as related school discipline and special education matters, in order to help keep youth in their homes, schools, and communities with appropriate supports. Law students will have the opportunity to handle cases from the initial intake to the case disposition.

The Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic teaches structured, team-based problem solving through collaborative engagement with community groups.

Students who have completed the International Human Rights Clinic may take this offering by instructor permission to obtain advanced practical experience with activities lawyers engage in to promote respect for human rights.

Students who have completed the Youth Advocacy Clinic may take this offering by instructor permission to obtain advanced practical experience with activities lawyers engage in to represent children with legal issues in the areas of education law, laws governing access to services for incarcerated children, mental health and developmental disabilities law, and foster care and social services law. 

This is the first semester of a yearlong practicum in which selected upper-level students serve as teaching assistants in the law school's Legal Research and Writing Program.

This course introduces LL.M. students to the fundamentals of U.S. legal research materials, methods, and strategies as well as various forms of legal writing.

This field experience is one part of a two-part full-time externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization.

This directed study is one part of a two-part full-time externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization.

This field experience is one part of a two-part externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization.

This directed study is one part of a two-part externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization.

Eligible students receive credit for serving as research assistants supervised by selected law school faculty members.