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.

This is the 2nd half of a year-long clinic (LAW 8647 & LAW 8648)

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 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 is the 2nd 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.

This course focuses on the common economic problems, such as moral hazard, information asymmetry, and rent-seeking, that drive deal structuring and deal contracting. Students will apply economic tools, such as alternative contractual regimes, transaction costs, and risk-sharing to evaluate and solve economic problems in a variety of real-world deals.

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

The clinic can be taken whether or not a student has taken LAW 8671 (Comm Org & Soc Ent Clinic I). The clinic assists clients with structured, team-based problem solving through collaborative engagement with community groups.

This is the second half of a year-long clinic aiming to take on collaborative projects to produce hard facts and reliable data for all types of organizations in the criminal justice reform movement needing that information.