Public Service Center at the University of Virginia School of Law

04/10/2018

UVA Law public service students share their tips for acing your 1L summer internship. What advice do you have for our 1Ls preparing to work with public service employers this summer?

UVA Law students and the Public Service Center share their best tips for acing your public service internship. www.law.virginia.edu/publicservice (University...

01/08/2018

Jeffrey Kerr ’87 has won the Shaping Justice Award for Extraordinary Achievement, and Kim Rolla ’13 and Jeree Thomas ’11 are co-recipients of the Shaping Justice Rising Star Award. They will be honored at the second annual Shaping Justice conference in February.

12/18/2017

Halima Nguyen, a third-year student enrolled in UVA’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic, worked on an amicus brief for the Mattaponi tribe in a lawsuit over a Virginia transmission line project.

12/11/2017

Cory Sagduyu, a third-year University of Virginia School of Law student, has received a Skadden Fellowship to work on behalf of immigrant victims of workplace abuses.

12/04/2017

The second annual Shaping Justice conference, aimed at inspiring students and lawyers to promote justice through public service, will take place Feb. 2-3 in at the University of Virginia School of Law.

10/05/2017

Two members of the Class of 2020 at the University of Virginia School of Law — Manal Cheema of Sharon, Massachusetts, and Suzanne Deuster of Milwaukee, Wisconsin — are recipients of the inaugural Virginia Public Service Scholarship.

09/29/2017

The University of Virginia School of Law received the inaugural Champion of Justice Award from the Charlottesville-based Legal Aid Justice Center at an event Saturday evening celebrating the center’s 50th anniversary.

09/13/2017

Buoyed by increased funding for summer public service jobs, a growing number of second-year students at the University of Virginia School of Law are spending both their first and second summers working in public interest roles. This summer the Law School and Public Interest Law Association provided…

08/17/2017

This is the Lawn tonight, united in love and peace, standing in opposition to hate.

08/11/2017

University of Virginia School of Law student Rachel Gallagher ’19 used her $6,500 Public Interest Law Association grant to fund her work this summer investigating human rights abuses and researching ongoing human rights violations.

06/26/2017

For both poets and lawyers, words are their stock-in-trade. Yet the two types of writers differ in how they express language. Annie Kim ’99, UVA Law’s assistant dean for public service and director of the Mortimer Caplin Public Service, would make a counterargument. “I think there are a lot of paral...

05/16/2017

Congratulations, Amber!

Amber Strickland, a third-year law student the University of Virginia School of Law, has won the Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono Award. The award, sponsored by the Virginia State Bar, recognizes extraordinary law student achievement in uncompensated and under-compensated public service work.…