After 34 years with the country’s oldest public interest law firm for children, Robert Schwartz has learned to litigate through relationships and find creative ways to influence his field, he told students last week.

Jennifer Roback Morse, a former economics professor, spoke about alternatives to feminism Feb. 12 at an event sponsored by the Federalist Society.

Whether members of the General Assembly will use the Supreme Court’s judicial evaluation reports in reelecting judges remains in question after chairmen of the House and Senate Courts of Justice Committees said last week they will not unseal the reports and circulate them among their fellow legislators. Del. David B. Albo, ...

Beginning this semester, some Law School students are joining with practicing lawyers from McGuireWoods to work on child advocacy cases in the community.

Recognizing the role of emotion is critical to a better understanding of family law, experts said Thursday during a conference on law and emotion held in Caplin Pavilion.

Students involved in the Family Resource Clinic advocate for low-income clients whose public benefits have been wrongly denied, cut off or reduced.

It’s a crime in which the victim is also the criminal—so whom do you prosecute? Underage youths who exploit themselves online can be subject to criminal pornography charges, explained child abuse expert Mary Leary at a Law School event Feb. 5, but so far courts are applying the law unevenly.

Civil rights advocate J. Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Conference on Public Service and the Law, to be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, at the University of Virginia School of Law. Founded by law students nine years ago, the conference brings together students, citizens, and attorneys to discuss current public interest legal issues.

During her second-year summer law job, Anishah Cumber worked at the Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, where she saw the trouble many women from South Asia had trying to exercise their rights as legal immigrants to America and at the same time preserve the traditions of their culture.

A debate on same-sex marriage and adoption brought a standing-room-only crowd to Caplin Pavilion Nov. 13, as Virginia law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui and Professor Lynn Wardle from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University faced off on one of the most contentious issues in family law.