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 …
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 …
This is single-semester clinic offered in cooperation with the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) and local attorneys. The clinic is designed to give students first-hand experience in the practice of …
This course deals with legal and business issues that arise in representing emerging-growth technology companies, with a particular emphasis on venture capital transactions, liquidity events, intellectual property, and corporate formation, …
This seminar explores the legal and regulatory structures affecting foreign investors seeking to participate in the development of so-called "emerging markets" and in particular in the restructuring of formerly socialist …
This course considers the principal tax and non-tax aspects of estate planning, with emphasis on sophisticated tax planning techniques for wealthy individuals.
This course explores the most common evidentiary challenges in litigation, in addition to covering important trial strategy and components (opening & closing statements, and jury selection). The keys to success …
The purpose of this clinic is for students to explore how mass incarceration was created and how it is maintained; to interrogate how and why the attendant consequences of contact …
This seminar will consider the theory and practice of drug product liability litigation lawsuits before, and now after, the Supreme Court's recent landmark decision in Wyeth v. Levine (2009). We …
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 …
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 …
This is the 2nd half of a year-long Civil Rights Clinic in which students work on cases that have potential to provide real and concrete relief and legal support to …
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 …
This course is the second 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 …
Many federal defendants are serving sentences in excess of what they would receive for the same offense today, due to errors in the original case, changes in law that were …
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 …
The Holistic Youth Defense Clinic will provide students an opportunity to practice holistic and zealous lawyering by representing juvenile clients on delinquency matters, as well as related school discipline and …
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 …