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 law school in continuous operation 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. Maclean's has consistently assessed the Faculty as the highest ranked common law school in Canada and the highest ranked in terms of faculty journal citations. 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. Established in 1824,it has been ranked the number one law school in the country by U.S. News &World Report every year since the magazine started publishing law school rankings. 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 school’s small size and prestige have made its admissions process the most selective 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. 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.
Vanderbilt University Law School is the law school of Vanderbilt University. Established in 1874,it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States. Vanderbilt Law enrolls approximately 640 students,with each entering Juris Doctor class consisting of approximately 175 students.
John Calvin Jeffries,Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008.
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.
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the provost of Harvard University. He is the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law. From 2017 to 2024,he was the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School.
Makau W. Mutua is a Kenyan-American professor at the SUNY Buffalo School of Law and was its dean from 2008 to 2014. He teaches international human rights,international business transactions and international law. He is vice president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Henry Julian Abraham was a German-born American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law. He was James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He was the author of 13 books,most in multiple editions,and more than 100 articles on the U.S. Supreme Court,judicial appointments,judicial process,and civil rights and liberties.
Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American legal scholar who served as the 12th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2016 to 2024,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.
The history of the University of Virginia opens with its conception by Thomas Jefferson at the beginning of the early 19th century. The university was chartered in 1819,and classes commenced in 1825.
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.
Heather Kristin Gerken is an American legal scholar. She has been serving as the 17th dean of Yale Law School since 2017. At Yale Law,she also serves as the Sol &Lillian Goldman Professor of Law.
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 for health reasons and returned to private life.
