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W&M Law School's Black Law Students Association held a Thank You Card Drive and raised $206 for FISH Inc., before Thanksgiving.
The International Competition Team (ICT) began in Fall 2021 with the goal of enhancing opportunities to engage and network in the international law field. After a successful inaugural season, the team looks forward to carrying that momentum into this competition year.
The Law School community gathered recently to celebrate Professor Lynda L. Butler's more-than-40-year career at William & Mary.
Professor Catherine Stahl has joined the William & Mary Law School faculty as a Professor of the Practice and Director of LL.M. Programs.
The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference held its 19th annual event at the end of September, with members of the bench, bar and academia gathering at William & Mary to explore recent developments in the laws that affect property rights.
Former W&M Law Deans Taylor Reveley, Lynda Butler and Davison Douglas have been honored with portraits that now grace the Hixon Center at the Law School.
A new one-credit course develops and hones 1L students’ leadership and professional skills to ensure that they enter the profession equipped with a wide array of core competencies.
Paul Smith, Professor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center and the VP for Litigation and Strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, received the Marshall-Wythe Medallion, which recognizes those who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishment in law.
Before the Supreme Court convened its 2022-23 term, legal scholars, judges, lawyers and journalists came to W&M Law School for the Institute of Bill of Rights Law's 35th Annual Supreme Court Preview.
The Anderson Scholars program, which began in 2010, awards student leaders and honors the contributions of the late Alvin P. Anderson ’70, J.D. ’72.
Judge Helivi Holland '90 received the 2022-23 St. George Tucker Adjunct Professor of Law Award for her service on behalf of students as an adjunct professor.
William & Mary Law School recently welcomed the military veterans of the Class of 2025 during orientation activities prior to the beginning of their formal legal education.
The Law School recently welcomed the J.D. Class of 2025, the LL.M. Class of 2022, and transfer and visiting students.
A new look in the Law School lobby and first floor reading room met new and returning students after a summer of renovation at William & Mary Law School.
Professor Emerita Lynda L. Butler was recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law.
Professor James Y. Stern was recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law.
The Virginia Coastal Policy Center at W&M Law and partners have recently used the innovative Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (The RAFT) to help improve community resilience to coastal hazards on the Eastern Shore and Northern Neck areas of Virginia.
Rebecca Green, the Co-Director of the Election Law Program at William & Mary Law School, has been appointed Associate Professor of Law.
A. Benjamin Spencer, Dean and Trustee Professor at William & Mary Law School, was recently honored with the William R. Rakes Leadership in Education Award from the Virginia State Bar Section on the Education of Lawyers in Virginia.
Professor Thomas J. McSweeney has been selected to receive a 2022 Alumni Fellowship Award by the William & Mary Alumni Association.
Five faculty were honored for outstanding teaching during spring semester 2022.
Chu, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery and advocate for the Asian American community, was among five graduates honored on April 30 with inaugural William & Mary Asian Centennial Awards.
On May 19, outgoing Student Bar Association (SBA) President Max Chu ‘22 and outgoing SBA Vice President Emilee Houghton ’22 presented awards for outstanding teaching to Professor Adam Gershowitz and Professor Nancy Combs.
William & Mary honored Professor Eric A. Kades with the university's Graves Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching during Commencement 2022.
The Virginia Coastal Policy Center (VCPC) at William & Mary Law School has received a $35,000 grant from the Virginia Environmental Endowment (VEE) for a project titled “Planning for a Climate-Changed Future in Virginia,” the Law School announced today.
Two William & Mary professors – Professor Scott Gibson and Professor Timothy Zick– have been selected to receive the 2022 McGlothlin Awards for Exceptional Teaching.
Two members of the William & Mary Law School Class of 2022, Majesta-Doré Legnini and Zachary R.M. Outzen, have been selected for Equal Justice Works fellowships.
William & Mary Law School’s Moot Court team is ranked second in the nation according to new data compiled by the University of Houston Law Center.
The Institute of the Bill of Rights Law at W&M Law School recently launched a Scalia-Ginsburg Collegiality Speaker Series, which brings together pairs of advocates, judges and legal scholars who share a warm friendship despite disagreements over how they see the law.
Reunion classes celebrated with a return to in-person homecoming and provided generous class gifts for the Law School during this year's Alumni Weekend festivities on April 8-9.
To ensure that its students enter the profession equipped with a wide array of core competencies, the Law School will require first-year students to successfully complete a one-credit course in leadership and professional development. The requirement will take effect in fall 2022.
Colleen Chien, Professor of Law of Santa Clara University School of Law, recently visited W&M Law School and gave the 2021-22 Stanley H. Mervis Lecture in Intellectual Property.
Robert E. Scott J.D. ’68, the Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Columbia Law School, received the 2021-22 Marshall-Wythe Medallion at an event in his honor held at William & Mary’s historic Wren Building.
The event featured a panel of distinguished military and diplomatic leaders, a senior war correspondent and two former Afghan ministers who offered analyses and candid reflections of their own decisions and actions over the course of what has been called by some a series of 20 one-year wars.
The William & Mary Law School Immigration Clinic, the William & Mary Center for Racial and Social Justice, and Immigrant Justice Corps recently held the Inaugural Fourth Circuit Asylum Law Conference.
Professor Joanna Schwartz of UCLA Law presented William & Mary Law School’s Annual George Wythe Lecture on Monday, March 7, examining the problem of access to counsel for civil-rights plaintiffs.
James Burling, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Pacific Legal Foundation, will receive the 2022 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize at William & Mary Law School’s 19th annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference held on September 29-30.
This year's Koch Administrative Law Forum, held on March 1, featured panelists Lindsay Wiley and Jonathan Adler discussing two Supreme Court opinions involving federal vaccine mandates.
On Feb. 24, Timothy Zick, the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship and William H. Cabell Research Professor of Law at W&M, delivered the 2022 St. George Tucker Lecture, "Arming the Public Square: The Second Amendment as a Threat to the First."
Volume 10 of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal, presenting papers from the October 2020 conference, “Where Theory Meets Practice,” is now available.
Judge Brian Smalls of Williamsburg was the inaugural speaker for William & Mary Law School's first annual speaker series honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
William & Mary Law School announced today that Professor Margaret Hu will join the faculty as a Professor of Law with tenure beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year, pending approval by the Board of Visitors.
Professor Steve Miskinis will join the faculty as a Professor of the Practice of Law beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year, pending approval by the Board of Visitors.
Professor Kami Chavis will join the William & Mary Law School faculty as the R. Hugh and Nolie Haynes Professor of Law beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year (pending final approval by the Board of Visitors). Chavis comes to William & Mary from Wake Forest University, where she is Vice Provost, Professor of Law, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program.
As he prepares to retire, Prof. Paul Marcus has created an endowment to support law students engaging in public service work after graduation.
During William & Mary’s 2022 Charter Day ceremony on February 11, Howard Busbee ’65, J.D. ’67, M.L.T. ’68 will receive an honorary degree from the university.
The Center for Racial & Social Justice is a university-wide initiative housed at William & Mary Law School. Professor Vivian Hamilton serves as the Center's inaugural director. Among its projects and progress: giving voice to an Asian legacy at the university, advancing equity in education, putting a spotlight on diverse history, developing a university-wide mentoring program and creating a national resource to advance criminal justice.
An essay by J. Nicole Alanko '18. Reprinted with permission from the December 2021 issue of Virginia Lawyer (Virginia State Bar).
The American Law Institute (ALI) announced Monday that Professor Jeffrey Bellin is among the newest members elected to ALI membership. Bellin is the Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law and Robert E. and Elizabeth S. Scott Research Professor at William & Mary Law School.
The series encourages students during their 1L year to bring new perspectives to their study of law.