The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia,United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village,a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The original governing Board of Visitors included three U.S. presidents:Jefferson,James Madison,and James Monroe,the latter as sitting president of the United States at the time of its foundation. As its first two rectors,Presidents Jefferson and Madison played key roles in the university's foundation,with Jefferson designing both the original courses of study and the university's architecture. Located within its historic 1,135 acre central campus,the university is composed of eight undergraduate and three professional schools:the School of Law,the Darden School of Business,and the School of Medicine.
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University,a private research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1817,Harvard Law School is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.
The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is the law school of the University of Toronto. The Faculty's admissions process is the most selective of law schools in Canada and is one of the most selective in North America. The Faculty has consistently been ranked as the top law school for Common Law in Canada by Maclean's since it began to publish law school rankings. The Faculty offers the JD,LLM,SJD,MSL,and GPLLM degrees in law.
Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University,a private research university in New Haven,Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and is one of the most selective academic institutions in the world. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%,the lowest of any law school in the United States. Its yield rate of 87% is also consistently the highest of any law school in the United States.
The Darden School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia. Ranked amongst the top business schools in the world,the school offers MBA,PhD,and Executive Education programs.
The University of Virginia School of Law is the law school of the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia. Founded in 1819,Virginia Law is the second oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
John Calvin Jeffries,Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008.
John D. Casey is an American novelist and translator. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1989 for Spartina.
The University of Virginia College of Arts &Sciences is the largest of the University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program,the College comprises the liberal arts and humanities section of the University.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of Virginia. The school's facilities are on the University of Virginia grounds adjacent to Academical Village in Charlottesville,Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson,UVA SoM is the tenth oldest medical school in the United States. The School of Medicine confers Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees,and is closely associated with both the University of Virginia Health System and Inova Health System.
Robert Marchant O'Neil was an American lawyer and educator. A specialist in constitutional law,he served as president of the University of Virginia (1985-1990) and created the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression,whose director he became (1990-2010). During these years,O'Neil remained associated with the university's law school,where he taught courses in the First Amendment and the Arts,Speech and Press,Church and State,and Free Speech in Cyberspace.
The University of California,Irvine School of Law is the law school at the University of California,Irvine,a public research university in Irvine,California. Founded in 2007,it is the fifth and newest law school in the UC system. At the time of its founding,it was the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years.
Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American lawyer and legal historian who serves as the 12th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law;she is the first woman to hold the position. She is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Alice Carlotta Jackson Stuart was an American educator,and the first African-American woman to apply for graduate school studies at the University of Virginia. She was denied on the basis of "good and sufficient reasons" and later went on to earn her Master of Arts at Columbia University in 1937.
Gregory Hayes Swanson,LL.B,A.B.,was an American Lawyer who was the first African American to attend the University of Virginia.
Patrick Finnegan was a United States Army Brigadier General,and the president of Longwood University. Finnegan served 39 years in the U.S. Army,retiring in 2010 after serving as the 12th Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy. Following his Army career,he was appointed as the 25th President of Longwood University in 2010. Finnegan stepped down as President in 2012 due to health reasons,and returned to private life.
Gregory Eaton Maggs is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was previously the Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law and Co-Director of the National Security &U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program at the George Washington University Law School.
Amy Laura Wax is an American legal scholar and neurologist. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy,as well as the relationship of the family,the workplace,and labor markets. She has often made remarks about non-white people that have been described as white supremacist and racist.
Richard A. Merrill was an American lawyer,government official,and academic administrator who served as the 7th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and the chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration from 1976 to 1978.
