It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs.
SLF brings dynamic speakers to Grounds to discuss high-profile legal issues, politics, and other civic concerns of interest to law students and the university community. Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not apart of or an agency of the University.
03/08/2019
If you missed our Conversation with Gen. Wesley Clark (but didn't want to), here's a podcast!
“Renewing American Politics,” With Gen. Wesley K. Clark Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark came to the Law School for a nonpartisan discussion encouraging young adults to enter the modern political arena. He provided an overview of recent American political hist
02/26/2019
We are very pleased to announce that Jessica Yellin will be joining General Clark at this Friday's event!
Jessica Yellin is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and was CNN's Chief White House Correspondent from 2011 to 2013. Before her stint at CNN, she also held reporting positions at ABC and MSNBC. Ms. Yellin is an alumna of Harvard University, where she graduated magna cm laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
10/01/2018
We're on TV! Well, YouTube at least... Here's this year's Supreme Court Roundup for your viewing edification!
2018 Supreme Court Roundup Professors A. E. Dick Howard, Anne Coughlin, Daniel Ortiz and Micah Schwartzman discuss key cases from the 2017 U.S. Supreme Court term, and look ahead to th...
The Student Legal Forum will be having its introductory meeting open to all Law Students at **1:00 PM on Monday, September 17th, in WB 102**. Lunch will be served from Roots Natural Kitchen!
Please come out and find out more about this amazing organization!
Please join us on Monday at 11:30 in Caplin Pavilion! Professor Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern University, a leading commentator on the Arab-Israeli conflict, will be speaking on the intersection of state anti-boycott laws and free speech. The Law School's own Professor Tom Nachbar, an expert in national security and constitutional law, will offer comments. A Q&A session will follow.
Sticks Kebabs will provide lunch. The event runs from 11:30 to 12:30 in Caplin Pavilion; 1Ls who plan on attending the 12:30 career services info sessions should feel free to join us for the beginning of the event. Co-sponsored with the Jewish Law Students Association and the UVA Chapter of the Louis D. Brandeis Center.
04/22/2014
AG Herring Speaks to UVA Law Students about Time in Office Thus Far Friday, VA's Attorney General Mark Herring visited UVA law students to talk about some of the issues he's faced in office thus far.
Free Bel-Air Today!
Come hear our talk today with Professor James Nelson in WB 104 at noon. The event, “Conscience, Incorporated," is part of the Constitutional Rights of Corporations Symposium Series.
02/07/2012
ICE leader at UVa: Focus shifts to deporting illegals who commit crimes while in U.S. “If ICE can only move 400,000 a year, we have to focus on who those people are going to be.”
12/22/2011
The Student Legal Forum is pleased to announce that we will host Director John Morton of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security on February 6th in Caplin Pavilion at 5PM.
Morton heads the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and will talk about his role supervising the second largest investigative agency in the federal government.
John Morton was unanimously confirmed as the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by the U.S. Senate on May 12, 2009. ICE is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government. Created in 2003, the agency has a budget of $5.7 billion dollars and more than 20,000 employees in offices in all 50 states and 47 foreign countries. The agency’s primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.
Prior to his appointment by the President, Mr. Morton spent 15 years at the Department of Justice. At the Department, Mr. Morton served in several positions including Assistant United States Attorney, Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division.
During his tenure at ICE, Mr. Morton has strengthened ICE’s investigative efforts, with a particular emphasis on border crimes, export controls, intellectual property enforcement and child exploitation. Mr. Morton has also sought to prioritize ICE’s immigration enforcement efforts around the removal of criminal offenders, recent border violators, and those who ignore orders of removal or obtain immigration status by fraud.
UVA Student Legal Forum to host Director John Morton of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Congratulations to Julia Abelev on her appointment to serve as the next President of the Student Legal Forum during the 2012-13 academic year.