This course is designed for students in the Program in Law & Public Service and/or students considering a public-interest career. During the seminar, we will confront pressing questions of what it means to be a lawyer working in the public interest.

The course enables students to spend time in administrative settings within the UVA Medical Center as "participant-observers," in order to gain first-hand experience of the subject matter that is the focus of the theory, teaching, and practice of ethics, law, and health policy in relation to the organization and operation of healthcare institutions.

This is the first semester of a yearlong study project. Part of the class will be focused on identifying research topics in advance of a fieldwork trip to a site country to be determined. The second goal of the class is to practically prepare for human rights fieldwork.

This lecture course covers the development of legal institutions, legal ideas, and legal principles from the medieval period to the 18th century, emphasizing the impact of transformations in politics, society, and thought on the major categories of English law: property, torts and contracts, corporations, family law, constitutional and administrative law, and crime.

This class explores legal controversies from the period preceding the American Revolution to the ratification and early implementation of the Constitution.

This seminar will investigate the legal, institutional, and cultural practices that condition the lives of transgender people. We will devote substantial attention to the contemporary push by some lawmakers to restrict, or even eliminate, transgender lives.

For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.