The Vietnamese Student Association at The University of Virginia is dedicated to the general development of the student body. We strive to educate and advocate for the Vietnamese and Asian-American communities. In doing so, we hope to bring students with Vietnamese heritage and others who have interests in Vietnam together to create opportunities to have fun, assist each other, make life-long friendships, and build leadership skills throughout our college careers. The need for new members will always be encouraged without discrimination towards ethnicity, gender, or religion. Altogether, we strive to be recognized as the voice of youths and extend our culture to highlight cultural diversity at UVA and in the Charlottesville community.

The Anthropology Society is a society of undergraduate and graduate that wish to deepen their exposure to alternative worldviews. It is comprised of students involved in the wide-ranging discipline, including archaeologists, linguists, and socio-culturalists. Our fundamental goal is for our members to interact with fellow anthropology enthusiasts and engage with topics of anthropology beyond the classroom. To do so, we facilitate conversations between undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty via social events, speaker series, panel discussions, and advertisement of our peers' work.

Virginia di Shaan is a cultural co/ed dance team for University of Virginia students (undergraduate and graduate). We compete on the intercollegiate level and professional level with similar teams from various universities around the nation. Our style of dance is known as bhangra, which is a typical north Indian folk dance from the state of Punjab. Our mission is to spread the culture of this Punjabi dance.

A collective of students from varied faith backgrounds or no faith backgrounds who gather to talk about interfaith community.

The Virginia Journal of International Law is one of the top ranked international law journals in the world. Founded in 1960, we are located at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. We publish three times annually, and our issues contain Articles, Notes, and Essays. We also host an annual symposium.For an overview of who we are, where we've been, and our contributions to the field of international law, please read then-Dean Paul Mahoney's commemorative letter from the fiftieth anniversary Volume in 2010, copied below:"We are all internationalists now. Fifty years ago, when the Virginia Journal of International Law began publication, international law was a narrowly-defined field concerned with the legal obligations of nation states vis-à-vis one another. International law scholars had relatively little to say to their domestic law counterparts and vice versa. Scholars of comparative law, although engaged in an analytically different exercise, shared much of the culture of international lawyers and published in the same journals, including VJIL. Today the barriers between international and domestic law are diminishing. In part, this is a simple result of the dramatic growth in cross-border movements of people and capital. But it is also, interestingly, a consequence of intellectual and cultural conflict between international and domestic law. Reflecting its origins, international law has a decidedly European sensibility. That sensibility is frequently out of step with American domestic law on matters relating to war, criminal punishment, the environment, and so on. It therefore matters whether international law limits or informs domestic law on those issues. In recent years, U.S. courts have partly opened the door to such influence. Barring a reversal of that trend or a substantial cultural shift on one side of the Atlantic or the other, the underlying policy conflicts will guarantee increasing debate between international and domestic law scholars. The era when each could ignore the other’s substantive commitments is over. A third reason for the convergence is methodological. International and comparative scholars were relative latecomers to the interdisciplinary movement in legal scholarship. More recently, international law scholars have come to rely on insights from international relations theory, which is in turn informed by game theory and institutional economics. The methodological distance between international law and domestic law scholarship, which widened with the creation of “law and” movements in the middle of the last century, has narrowed again. If international law scholars found political science and economics, we might say that economics found comparative law. In the past decade there has been an explosion of empirical work in macroeconomics that looks for the determinants of cross-country differences in the organization and operation of the economy. A striking conclusion of that literature is that the design of a country’s legal system is strongly related to the organization of its financial, product, and labor markets. This has sparked an outpouring of interest among economists in the differences among legal systems. Comparative law scholars have not been entirely welcoming of this interest, but here too it seems clear that the barriers separating comparative law and previously domestically-focused law and economics are breaking down. We can see the results in the pages of recent issues of VJIL, which discuss financial and environmental regulation, intellectual property, antitrust, and taxation, each only dimly on the minds of internationalists fifty years ago. This widening of the interests and concerns of international and comparative law is healthy and bodes well for the intellectual promise of VJIL’s next fifty years. VJIL has been a major forum for the development of scholarly ideas about international and comparative law over the past fifty years, and I congratulate the Journal and its editors, past and present, for their contribution to the advancement of those fields. I have no doubt that the future will be equally bright."

Virginia Ke Aashiq is UVA's gender inclusive competitve Bollywood-Fusion dance team on grounds! We compete and perform across the country such as in Tennesee and Alabama. We also hold performances on grounds such as the Voices Showcase, COLA Ball, Culturefest, India Day, and more! If you are interested in joining the team, definitely try out! We require NO prior experience, and we would love to have you on the team!

FIRSTGEN was created to provide a welcoming community for first-generation law students at UVA. We define first-gen very broadly, so that we can provide helpful resources, a tight-knit community, and valuable information to as many students at UVA Law as possible! Join FIRSTGEN to meet your first-gen peers! 

V Major is established for the expressed purpose of: Bringing fellow lovers of Chinese traditional music together for lively and enjoyable sharing of musical experience, including rehearsals and public performances.Collaborating with other CIOs and departments to host cultural events on grounds.Preserving and promoting Chinese musical cultural heritage and bring diversity to the local community.

Wahoos For Israel at UVA is established for the expressed purpose of: advocating and supporting the State of Israel. We find it necessary to recognize the richness of diverse viewpoints our club fosters, opening an inclusive space for dialogue and understanding. We encourage Jewish students to share their experiences, but more importantly, alongside members of other communities, creating a vibrant tapestry of voices in support of Israel. Students of all backgrounds are actively encouraged to join our community which in turn strengthens Wahoos for Israel and enriches all our learning.We stand against hate and violent rhetoric towards Israel, although that is not to say we do not support the freedom to peacefully exchange ideas and speak your truth. Support for Israel can consist of constructive criticisms within dialogues—to challenge ideas is to seek better understanding, and this our aspiration.

The purpose of this organization is to provide social support to the diverse population of women at the law school; to promote the welfare of its members through educational, professional, cultural, social and community service programs; and to provide a forum for the discussion of issues affecting women of color in the law school and the University community as a whole. Women of Color seeks to achieve these goals through service projects and fundraisers benefiting the University community and the greater Charlottesville-Albemarle community; social gatherings to promote fun and friendship; and open communication and involvement with the administration, professors, other student organizations and the undergraduate community.