• LAW 8843

    Directed Research
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Eligible students receive 2 credits for participating in a sustained, productive and educationally valuable project for at least 85 hours of work supervised by an eligible faculty member.

  • LAW 8845

    Dual Degree: Sciences Po (YR)
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course is the second semester of a yearlong international combined-degree with University Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne Law School and Sciences Po/Paris in which selected students can participate during their third year.

  • LAW 8847

    Graduate Legal Research and Writing Fellow
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    By application, students who have previously participated as LRW Fellows for 1Ls can take this simulation course to enhance their skills reviewing and commenting on different types of legal documents, including contracts, demand letters, and short motions, which are skills similar to those required by a junior attorney in general practice.

  • LAW 8850

    International Tax Practicum Fellow
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    The fellow for the International Tax Practicum will be a rising 3L, typically one who took the Practicum in the previous year. The fellow will work with the instructor to develop tax-treaty practice problems and litigation scenarios to be completed by the students; give students written feedback on their responses to the problems and/or cases, and meet with students (together with the instructor) to provide oral feedback.

  • LAW 9090

    Seminar in Ethical Values (YR)
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This is the second semester of a yearlong seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader.

  • LAW 9126

    The Business of Sport
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course introduces law students to foundational components of the business of sport, including stadium/arena development, M&A and equity investment, sponsorship/commercial activation, and media rights.

  • LAW 9229

    Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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.

  • LAW 9236

    Bioethics And Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy & Administration
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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.

  • LAW 9301

    Legal Controversies of the Founding Era
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • LAW 9374

    Transgender History, Recognition, Regulation and Rights
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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.