University of Virginia School of Law Graduate Studies

the graduate program

the graduate StudieS program

at the university of Virginia School

of Law provides an american legal

education to lawyers who have obtained

their first law degree in their home

countries. Virginia’s master of Laws

(LL.m.) program offers both a broad

introduction to american law and

legal theory and advanced training in

specialized areas of the law relevant

to the student’s career in private

practice, academia or public service.

LL.m. StudentS

take cLaSSeS aLongSide

J.d. StudentS

and fully engage in

the Law School

community.

By maintaining a SmaLL and highLy SeLectiVe program of

about 50 students, the Law School ensures a supportive atmosphere.

Virtually all students admitted to the one-year program are from

abroad. unlike many graduate studies programs, Virginia’s LL.m.

candidates take classes alongside J.d. students, allowing participants

to fully engage in the community. Because Virginia offers more

than 250 courses each year in an array of topics, students in the

program also have wide latitude to plan courses of study that are

tailored to their individual interests and career objectives.

the director of the graduate StudieS program, professor paul Stephan, advises

students and approves their course selections and research plans and, together with other

faculty members, is available to counsel students as they progress through the program.

the Law School also offers the doctor of Juridical Science degree (S.J.d.), the highest degree in

law. normally, a student is admitted to candidacy for the S.J.d. only after completing an LL.m.

Bryan yuSheng fu ’13 china

“people here are

incredible. our

outstanding faculty

team is comprised of

numerous prominent

academic authorities and

well-known pioneers in

various areas of the law.

having these scholars

enables an extensive

exposure to the american

legal system in a global

setting, facilitating the

road to success for future

scholars or practitioners.

your LL.m. fellows in

this relatively small but

diversified group make

your whole year inspiring,

cheerful and entertaining.

you will share a lot with

almost each and every

member of this group,

not only in terms of

cultural exchange, but

also struggle and success.

J.d.s — as our peer

advisors, classmates,

study-group partners,

roommates, party

hosts and guests — are

awesome, and they

offer tremendous help

in all kinds of ways.

“charlottesville is a

wonderful place to stay.

it is a cozy town that

allows you to focus on

your studies. But it is

also easily accessible

to many big cities (e.g.,

d.c., new york) as well

as so many great outdoor

destinations (e.g.,

Shenandoah national

park). the extracurricular

activities make your life

colorful and enjoyable.

in addition to all kinds

of parties, cultural and

sporting events, seminars

and summits attracting

first-tier professionals

from academic and

non-academic sectors,

you can just as easily

find yourself enjoying

your spare time simply

jogging or biking around

the most beautiful

campus in the nation.

“among other

experiences, the three-

day sleepless journal

try-out and later

serving on the Virginia

Journal of international

Law were highlights,

both challenging and

rewarding. you’re pushed

beyond what you think

you’re capable of. these

experiences and those

like them help you to

build up critical habits

and form new strengths.”

the uniVerSity With a total student body of

more than 21,000 students and a faculty of more than 2,100, the university

of Virginia has achieved national prominence in many disciplines and has

been ranked first or second among the nation’s public universities since

1984. the university is proud to be recognized as a major research institution with

an uncommonly strong commitment to teaching. in the Jeffersonian tradition,

uVa maintains the best of the past, yet is boldly oriented to the future.

the SchooL of LaW

iS Located Within

the uniVerSity of Virginia,

a thriving academic

community founded in 1819

by thomas Jefferson.

nikki Stein ’09South africa

“uVa provides a

wonderful opportunity

for personal growth.

the academic program

is tailored to suit your

exact interests, and

integrates LL.m. students

into J.d. classes in a

way that allows you to

gain from the classes

exactly what you put

in. the LL.m. program

is small enough to feel

like a big family, and

large enough to provide

exposure to wonderful,

different cultures.

the school provides

excellent support to LL.m.

students, and emphasizes

extracurricular activities

that offer something for

everyone. i felt like i was

a part of this integrated

community from day

one, and have formed

lifelong friendships and

contacts with students

and professors.”

at Virginia, your LegaL

StudieS WiLL take pLace

in What iS perhapS

the most appealing physical

environment found at any

law school in the country.

VaLentina ferreira pinto ’09BraziL

“the Law School

facilities are state of

the art, allowing for

versatile classes. you

can experience highly

multimedia-mediated

classes to more

traditional lectures and

seminars with small group

discussions. if you want to

experience a more hands-

on approach, uVa’s clinics

are the way to go. i have

taken the environmental

Law clinic and loved

it! i am quite happy i

have made my choice to

come to uVa and i am

certain of the uniqueness

of this experience.”

the LaW groundS home to 1,100 students,

the david a. harrison Law grounds feature new classrooms, seminar rooms,

moot courtrooms, comprehensive computer facilities, an expansive library,

new dining facilities, attractive offices for student organizations and numerous

student lounges. Surrounded by inviting gardens and an elegant, tree-lined

lawn, the setting reflects Jefferson’s conviction that locating an intellectual

community within a beautiful environment fosters learning and personal growth.

the community Located about two hours southwest

of Washington, d.c., charlottesville is the heart of a region of 200,000

residents. the city’s nightclubs, concert venues and festivals create an

exceptionally vibrant live music scene, and theater and opera are community

fixtures. area restaurants have been featured in publications such as gourmet

magazine and the new york times. each year the city hosts the nationally

acclaimed Virginia film festival and gathers literary luminaries for the

Virginia festival of the Book. Law students seeking a community in which

they can relax, enjoy plentiful entertainment and appreciate abundant natural

beauty to balance the rigors of law school will find a home in charlottesville.

neStLed in the

foothiLLS of

the BLue ridge mountainS

in Virginia,

charlottesville is a

picturesque and thriving

metropolitan area.

german VargaS ’13chiLe

“as a family man, i came

to charlottesville and uVa

with great expectation.

and we got much more

than we expected.

charlottesville is a

great place for families.

every season of the

year has its own special

attractions. We take

with us great moments

that we will enjoy for

the rest of our lives.”

the facuLty at Virginia

repreSentS

Leading

SchoLarS

and acknowledged experts

in all aspects of public

and private law.

yinuo zhang ’13 china

“Sitting in a class with the

smartest students in the

country, i am very much

inspired by the open-

ended class discussions

and the back-and-

forth interactions with

professors and various

professionals who are

teaching at uVa Law.

the close relationship

between the students

and the faculty is another

highlight. all faculty

and professors are very

friendly to international

students. i even took

a professor to lunch

[through a program uVa

Law offers] and had a

long conversation with

my professor about the

subject of the class and

my personal development.

With no doubt, my year

here was a challenging

but intellectually inspiring

experience. and i really

wish it could be longer.”

the facuLty at Virginia, professors commit to more

than just leading classes. uVa Law faculty members believe teaching and

building relationships with students are fundamental to the law school

experience. professors are leaders in the intellectual life of the community,

organizing and speaking at lectures and other events, working with student

organizations, volunteering for pro bono service and fostering new academic

programs when they find student interest. the faculty is enriched each year

by visitors from other leading law schools in the united States and abroad.

the curricuLum

concentrationSBusiness organization

and financecommercial Lawcommunications and

media Lawconstitutional Lawcriminal Justiceemployment and Labor

Lawenvironmental and

Land use Lawfamily Lawhealth Lawhuman rights and civil

Libertiesintellectual property

international and national Security Law

Jurisprudence and comparative Law

Legal historyLitigation and

procedurepublic policy and

regulationrace and Lawtax Law

programS and centerScenter for children,

families and the Lawcenter for national

Security Lawcenter for oceans Law

and policycenter for the Study of

race and Lawinstitute of Law,

psychiatry and public policy

John m. olin program in Law and economics

academic JournaLSJournal of Law &

politicsVirginia environmental

Law Journal

Virginia Journal of criminal Law

Virginia Journal of international Law

Virginia Journal of Law & technology

Virginia Journal of Social policy & the Law

Virginia Law & Business review

Virginia Law reviewVirginia Sports and

entertainment Law Journal

Virginia tax review

Virginia offerS more than 250 courSeS and SeminarS

each year. Students pursuing interdisciplinary study benefit

from an environment where nearly half of all law faculty

also hold advanced degrees in fields such as psychology,

economics, philosophy, history and medicine.

graduate StudentS are enrolled in courses and seminars

with upper-level J.d. students to encourage the exchange of

viewpoints influenced by different cultural and life experiences.

eLectiVe courSeS incLude interdisciplinary offerings such as

law and economics, law and social science, and law and medicine.

elective classes might be as small as 10 students or as large as 150.

full-time faculty members teach the vast majority of offerings, but

the Law School is also proud of its roster of more than 100 adjunct

and visiting faculty members from foreign and domestic law firms,

businesses and government service, who teach in specialty areas.

incoming LL.m.

StudentS who

score below a certain

score on the english

assessment test given

during orientation

week are required

to take graduate

Legal research and

Writing. all LL.m.

students must satisfy

a writing requirement

(which requires a

substantial research

paper). Beyond

these requirements,

students are invited

to be creative in

selecting courses and

research topics. for

example, students

wishing to specialize

in international human

rights will want to

register for the basic

course and seminars

offered in that area.

But these students

would also benefit from

a broader spectrum of

related courses within

an american context,

including courses

dealing with civil

rights, employment

discrimination and

immigration law.

Similarly, students

planning a law practice

in international

business transactions

may choose from

foundational courses

in american corporate,

commercial and

regulatory law, as

well as courses with

an explicit focus on

international business,

trade and litigation.

this process can be

repeated for virtually

every other field

of legal study and

demonstrates the Law

School’s commitment

to intellectual diversity

and individualized

courses of study.

firSt-year J.d. courSeS (open to LL.m. StudentS)

civil procedureconstitutional Lawcontractscriminal Lawpropertytorts

Virginia offerS

a unique

training ground

for students

interested in law

and business.

Jan-WiLLem geeromS ’10BeLgium

“uVa Law offers a

wide array of very

small and specialized

classes, taught by the

very best practitioners.

these professionals are

extremely motivated,

often flying in from all

over the world. Being

taught by partners of

the best Wall Street law

firms and by in-house

counsels of the biggest

multinationals is a truly

enriching experience.”

Virginia’S LongStanding Strength in corporate and commercial

law is rooted in a faculty with exceptional expertise in transactional

law and enhanced by close relationships with uVa’s darden School of

Business and the mcintire School of commerce, which are among the

nation’s leading graduate and undergraduate business programs.

the John W. gLynn, Jr. LaW & BuSineSS program trains prospective

business lawyers to think like their future clients, equipping them with

the skills not simply to offer legal advice but to structure and negotiate

transactions. the program brings business school faculty into the Law

School to teach the basics of accounting and finance. Students also

learn the fundamental tools of business analysis through enhanced

versions of core business law courses. in short courses taught by senior

counsel and executive officers, students review key transactional

documents and strategic decisions, using the quantitative tools of

business analysis to structure solutions. this approach enhances their

ability to understand complex transactions and business decisions.

dean fernandez ‘13auStraLia

“apart from the classes

in which you study

with J.d. students and

are taught by highly

engaging professors,

during lunch and after

hours there are a whole

host of interesting

seminars, conferences

and colloquia held at

the Law School where

you can supplement

your american legal

education, presented

by esteemed public

figures and practitioners

in the united States,

many of whom are uVa

Law alumni. during

my time here, i’ve

attended numerous

dinners at professors’

homes; they are warm

in their welcome of

international students

and interested in our

legal careers and lives.

i was impressed by the

caliber of my LL.m.

colleagues — leading

lawyers and scholars in

their home countries —

and learned from them

as much as i did from

the classes i attended.

for any lawyer looking

for inspiration — be it

through escalating their

skills in the corporate

sector, immersing

themselves in

constitutional theory or

in igniting their passion

for public service, like

me — the university of

Virginia School of Law

is the place to go.

Virginia haS

one of the LargeSt

and moSt

accompLiShed

international

law faculties in the

united States.

ayuShi kiran ’10 india

“my LL.m. experience at

uVa was like belonging

to the u.n. general

assembly; the vibrant mix

of students from various

countries of the world

certainly mimicked the

u.n. one of the greatest

assets of the LL.m.

program at uVa is that

it allows LL.m.s to take

classes with the regular

J.d. students. this helps

international students

learn about the american

legal system by being

a part of it rather than

just being a fence sitter.

the seminar courses

offered do an excellent

job of giving a taste of the

“real deal,” something

i never experienced in

the law school of my

home country. apart

from academics, uVa

also offers amazing

recreational opportunities.

Be it kickboxing, pilates,

salsa dancing or hiking,

you can do it all. it has

truly been a joyride.”

internationaL LaW Long known

as a preeminent place to study international law, Virginia’s faculty

includes experts in areas such as immigration, human rights, national

security, environmental law, comparative constitutional law and the law

of war, as well as private and commercial law in the global arena.

the curricuLum rangeS from basic courses

in public international law and international

business and trade to advanced offerings in

areas such as human rights, foreign relations,

international criminal law, intelligence law

reform and international dispute resolution.

professors from other nations are regularly

invited to the School of Law to teach seminars

on topics such as european union law and

comparative law, and students may take

select courses at the neighboring Judge

advocate general’s Legal center and School.

Virginia’S internationaL

LaW program attracts speakers

from around the world, including

leaders of international institutions

and public interest organizations,

government officials [former

u.S. State department Legal

adviser haroLd koh, right],

international law scholars and

practicing international lawyers.

BuSineSS organization and finance

courSeS and SeminarS

A Brief Introduction to the Capital Markets (11)

Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (11,12,13)

Advising the Board of Directors in a Mergers and Acquisitions World (11,12,13)

Agency and Partnership (11,12,13)

Airline Industry and Aviation Law (12,13)

Antitrust (11,12,13)Antitrust in the Global

Economy (11,12,13)Antitrust Practice (11,12,13)Antitrust Review of Mergers in

a Global Environment (12,13)Applied Problem Solving

(11,12,13)Bankruptcy (11,12,13)Bankruptcy (Law & Business)

(11,12,13)Business Reorganization Under

Chapter 11 (11,12,13)Class Actions and Complex

Litigation (11,12)Corporate Finance (11,12,13)Corporate Law Policy (12,13)Corporate Strategy (11,12)Corporations (11,12,13)Corporations (Law & Business)

(11,12,13)Current Issues in Corporate

Law and Governance (12,13)Current Issues in International

Financial Regulation (11)Emerging Growth Companies

and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (11,12,13)

Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (11,12,13)

Energy Businesses and Transactions (13)

Ethics and Integrity for Law Firm Lawyers and Their Clients (11,12,13)

Finance of Small Enterprises (11,12,13)

Franchise Law (11,12,13)Governance and Control of

the Multinational Business Enterprise (11,12)

Hedge Funds: Contract and Regulation (12,13)

International Business Transactions (11,12,13)

Law and Business Management

in the Health Care Sector (12)Law and Economics

Colloquium (11,12,13)Law and Game Theory (12)Law Firm as a Business

Organization (11,12,13)Leadership and Team

Management (11,12,13)Mergers and Acquisitions (11)Nonprofit Organizations

(11,12,13)Private Equity and Hedge

Funds (13)Private Equity Deals and Firms

(11,12)Pro Bono at Large Law Firms

(11,12)Quantitative Methods (11,12)Real Estate Transactions:

Principles and Practice (11,12,13)

Responses to the Financial Crisis (11,12,13)

SEC and Class Action Enforcement of the Federal Securities Laws (13)

Secured Transactions (11,12,13)Secured Transactions (Law &

Business) (11,12)Securities Regulation (11,12,13)Startup of a Biotech Company

(11,12,13)Structure of Enterprise (13)Thinking Strategically in Law,

Business, Poker and War (11)Topics in Corporate

Governance (11)Transactional Approach to

Mergers and Acquisitions (11,12,13)cLinicS

Nonprofit Clinic (11,12,13)Transactional Law Clinic (12,13) commerciaL LaW

courSeS and SeminarS Banking and Financial

Institutions (11,12,13)Bankruptcy (11,12,13)Bankruptcy (Law & Business)

(11,12,13)Business Reorganization Under

Chapter 11 (11,12,13)Class Actions and Complex

Litigation (11,12,13)Commercial Real Estate

Transactions (11,12,13)Construction Law (11,12,13)Consumer Law (13)Contracts II (11,12)Copyright Law (11,12,13)Current Issues in International

Financial Regulation (11)

Finance of Small Enterprises (11,12,13)

Franchise Law (11,12,13)Insurance (11,12,13)International Investment Law

(11,12,13)International Patent Law and

Policy (11,12,13)International Trade Regulation

(13)Law and Game Theory (12)Patent Law (11,12,13)Real Estate Finance Law (12,13)Real Estate Transactions:


Secured Transactions (11,12,13)Secured Transactions (Law &

Business) (11,12)Selected Topics in Consumer

Bankruptcy (11,13)Sovereign Debt Crises (12)Survey of Patent, Copyright,

Trademark (12)Trade Secrets: History, Theory

and Practice (11,12,13)

communicationS and media LaW


Antitrust in the Global Economy (11,12,13)

Communications Law (11,12)Constitutional Law II: Freedom

of Speech and Press (12)Copyright and Literary Culture

in the Digital Age (11)Copyright Law (11,12,13)Emerging Growth Companies


First Amendment Freedoms (11)

International Patent Law and Policy (11,12,13)

Issues in International and Digital Media (11)

Media and the Court (12)Survey of Patent, Copyright,

Trademark (12)cLinic

First Amendment Clinic (11,12) conStitutionaL LaW


Advanced Campaign Finance (12)

Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses) (11,12,13)

American Social and Legal

History (12)Analysis of the Military

Criminal Legal System (JAG) (11)

Citizenship and Group Identity (12,13)

Civil Liberties (11,12,13)Civil Liberties Survey (12,13)Civil Rights Litigation (11,12,13)Comparative Constitutional

Design (12,13)Comparative Constitutional

Law (11,12,13)Constitutional History I:

American Revolution to 1865 (12)

Constitutional History II: The 20th Century (12)

Constitutional Issues in Higher Education (12)

Constitutional Law II: Law and Theory of Equal Protection (12)

Constitutional Law II: Religious Liberty (11,12,13)

Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (12)

Constitutional Rights of Corporations (13)

Constitutional Structure (12)Constitutional Theory (12,13)Constitutionalism: History and

Jurisprudence (11,12,13)Criminal Law in the Supreme

Court (11,12,13) Criminal Procedure Survey

(11,12,13) Defamation (11,12)Direct Democracy (11,12) Disability Law (12) Education Law, Policy and

Inequality (11,12) Emerging Growth Companies

and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and

Practice (11,12,13)Environmental Law and

Federalism (11,12,13)Federal Lawyer (11,12,13)Federal Sentencing (11,12,13) First Amendment Freedoms

(11)First Amendment Theory

(11,12)Government Finance: Debt,

Budgets and Power (12)Habeas Corpus (11,13)International Agreements

(JAG) (11)Issues in Poverty Law (11,12)Judicial Decision-Making:

Judicial Modesty (12)Judicial Review (13)Judicial Role in American

History (11,12)Law and Education (11) Law and Higher Education

(11,12,13)Law of Politics (11,12)Law of War (11,12,13)Law of the Police (12,13)Lawyers and the Civil Rights

Movement (11)Local Government Law (11,12) Lochner Era (11)Media and the Courts (12)Monetary Constitution (13)Money and Rights (12)

concentrationSVirginia LaW offered the foLLoWing courSeS over three academic

years. Several courses appear in more than one concentration. numbers in

parentheses indicate which year: 2010-11 is coded (11), 2011-12 is (12) and

2012-13 is (13). courses marked (Jag) are offered by the Judge advocate

general’s Legal center and School, located next door to the Law School.

Poverty and the Constitution (12)

Presidential Powers (11,12,13)Privacy and Surveillance (12)Profiling (13)Property, Economic Rights and

the Constitution (11)Punishment in Law and

Culture (11)Race and Law (11,12,13)Race and the Constitution in

American History (11)Regulating Public Space in

Historical and Theoretical Perspective (12)

Regulation of the Political Process (11,13)

Religion, Democracy and Law (11,12)

Right to Education in U.S.: Real or Hollow? (12,13)

Rule of Law: Controlling Government (11,12)

Sovereign Debt Crises (12)Special Education Law (11)Supreme Court Decision-

Making: A Case Study (13)Supreme Court from Warren to

Roberts (11,12,13)Supreme Court Justices and the

Art of Judging (11,12,13)Supreme Court: October Term

(11)Textualism and Its Critics

(11,12)Virginia and the Constitution

(11,12,13)What Lawyers Can Learn from

the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King: Looking Back; Looking Forward (11)

Wrongful Convictions (11)cLinicS

First Amendment Clinic (11,12,13)

Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (11,12,13)

criminaL JuStice


Analysis of the Military Criminal Legal System (JAG) (11)

Causation in the Law (11)

Contemporary Debates in Criminal Law (11,13)

Crime and Punishment in American History (13)

Criminal Adjudication (11,12,13)

Criminal Investigation (11,12,13)Criminal Law and Regulation

of Vice (11)Criminal Law in the Supreme

Court (11,12,13)Criminal Procedure (11,12,13)Criminal Procedure Survey

(11,12,13)Criminology (11,12,13)Cybercrime (12,13)Death Penalty: An

International Perspective (11)Federal Criminal Law (12,13)Federal Sentencing (11,12,13)Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Survey: History, Policy and Practice Behind U.S. Efforts (11)

Habeas Corpus (11,13)Innocence Cases: How Much Is

Enough? (12,13)International Criminal Law

(12,13)International Criminal Justice:

Its Successes, Failures and Future Prospects (13)

International Financial Crimes (11,12)

Issues in Criminal Law Theory (12)

Law of the Police (12,13)Mental Health Issues in

Juvenile Justice (12,13)Plea Bargaining (11,13)Profiling (13)Psychiatry and Criminal Law

(11,12,13)Punishment in Law and

Culture (11)Social Science in Law (11,12,13)Supreme Court Decision-

Making: A Case Study (13)Topics in Federal Criminal

Law: Fraud, Corruption, Group Criminality (12,13)

Trials of the Century: Literary and Legal Representations of Great Criminal Trials (11)

War Crimes (JAG) (11)White-Collar Crime (11,12,13)Wrongful Convictions (11)

cLinicS

Capital Post-Conviction Clinic (11,12,13)

Criminal Defense Clinic (11,12,13)

Innocence Project Clinic (11,12,13)

Prosecution Clinic (11,12,13)

empLoyment and LaBor LaW


Class Actions and Complex Litigation (11,12)

Disability Law (12)Employment Discrimination

(11,12,13)Employment Law: Contracts,

Torts and Statutes (11,12,13)Employment Law: Health and

Safety (13)Employment Law: Principles

and Practice (11,12,13)Law of the Police (12,13)Law of Work (11,12,13)Professional Sports and the

Law (11,12,13)Retirement Security (11,12,13)Sports Law (11,13)

cLinic

Employment Law Clinic (11,12,13)

enVironmentaL and Land uSe LaW


Climate Change: Science, Policy and Law (12,13)

Energy Regulation and Policy (12,13)

Environmental Law (11,12,13)Environmental Law and

Federalism (11,12,13)Environmental Law,

Environmental Ethics (12)Federal Land, Energy and

Natural Resource Law (11,13)Foundations of Climate

Change Law and Policy (11)International Environmental

Law (12)

Land Use Law (11,13)Legislation (11,12,13)Literature, Law and the

Environment (12)Local Government Law (11,12)Natural Resource Law and

Policy (11)Property II (12)Property Theory (12,13)Regulation of Hazardous

Substances (13)Regulation of Toxic Substances

and Hazardous Waste (11)Science and Policy of

Biodiversity Conservation (12,13)

Sites and Systems: Science, Planning and Law (11)

Urban Law and Policy (11,13)Water Law (11)

cLinic

Environmental Law and Conservation Clinic (11,12)

famiLy LaW


Aging and the Law (11,12,13)Children and the Law (13)Estate Planning: Principles and

Practice (11,12,13)Estate Planning, Will Drafting

and Taxation (JAG) (11)Family Law (11,12,13)Federal Taxation of Gratuitous

Transfers (11,12,13)Income Taxation of Trusts and

Estates (11)Juvenile Justice Reform (13) Law, Literature and the Family

(11,13)Mental Health Issues in

Juvenile Justice (12,13)Poverty, Child Health and

Medical-Legal Partnerships (13)

Trusts and Estates (11,12,13) cLinicS

Advocacy Clinic for the Elderly (11,12,13)

Child Advocacy Clinic (11,12,13)Family Mediation Clinic

(11,12,13)

heaLth LaWcourSeS and SeminarS

Advance Directives in Health Care: Innovation and Impediments (13)

Aging and the Law (11,12,13)Bioethics and the Law (11,12,13)Drug Product Liability

Litigation: Principles and Practice (11,12,13)

Food and Drug Law (11,12)Genetics and the Law (11,12,13)Germs, Guns and Lead: Public

Health Law and Policy (11,13)Global Health Law and Policy

(11,12,13)Health Care Marketplace:

Competition, Regulation and Reform (12,13)

Health Care Structure and Financing (11)

Health Law Survey (11,12,13)Israeli Health Law and

Bioethics (12,13)Law and Business Management

in the Healthcare Sector (12,13)

Law and Ethics of Human Subject Research (13)

Law of Reproduction (11,13)Legal Issues at the End of Life

(11,13)Medical Malpractice and

Health Care Quality (11,12,13)

Mental Health Issues in Juvenile Justice (12,13)

Mental Health Law (11,12,13)Moral Dimensions of

Policymaking in the United States (11,13)

New Frontiers in Clinical Ethics and Law (13)

Psychiatry and Criminal Law (11,12,13)

Themes in Biomedicine (11)cLinicS

Advocacy Clinic for the Elderly (11,12,13)

Mental Health Law Clinic (11,12,13)

human rightS and ciViL LiBertieS


Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses) (11,13)

Citizenship and Group Identity (12,13)

Civil Liberties (11,12,13)Civil Liberties Survey (12,13)Civil Rights Litigation (11,12,13)Comparative Antiterrorism

Law (11)Comparative Human Rights

Law (12)Constitutional Law II: Freedom

of Speech and Press (12)Death Penalty: An

International Perspective (11)Ethical Issues in Foreign Policy

(11)First Amendment Freedoms (11)Human Rights, Public

International Law and the Scholarly Process (13)

Immigration Law (11,12,13)International Human Rights

(JAG) (11) International Human Rights

Law (11,12,13)Law of War (11,12,13)Laws of War: Contemporary

Debates (13) Lawyers and the Civil Rights

Movement (11,13)Native American Law (12)Poverty, Inequity and Human

Rights in Education (11)Privacy and Surveillance (12)Punishment in Law and

Culture (11)Race and Law (11,12,13)Refugee Law and Policy (12)Rights and Revolutions in

North Africa and the Arab Middle East (12)

Sexuality and the Law (13)What Lawyers Can Learn from

the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King: Looking Back; Looking Forward (11)cLinicS

First Amendment Clinic (11,12,13)

Immigration Law Clinic (11,12,13)

International Human Rights Law Clinic (11,12,13)

inteLLectuaL property


Advanced Patent Law (13) Bioethics and the Law (11,12,13)Communications Law (11,12)Copyright and Literary Culture

in the Digital Age (11)Copyright Law (11,12,13)Cybercrime (12,13)Economic Foundations of

Intellectual Property (11,12)Emerging Growth Companies


Intellectual Property: A Speakers’ Workshop (11)


Patent Law (11,12,13)Patent Prosecution (11)Patent Reform Act of 2011 (12)Privacy and Surveillance (12)Property II (12)Survey of Patent, Copyright,

Trademark (12)Trademark Law (11,12)Trade Secrets: History, Theory

and Practice (11,12,13)cLinicS

Patent and Licensing Clinic I (11,12,13)

Patent and Licensing Clinic II (11,12,13)

internationaL and nationaL Security LaW


Admiralty (11,12,13)Advanced Topics in the Law of

War (JAG) (11,12)An American Half-Century

(12,13)Antiterrorism, Law and the

Role of Intelligence (11,12,13)Antitrust in the Global

Economy (11,12,13)Citizenship and Group Identity

(12,13)Climate Change: Science,

Markets and Policy (12,13)Comparative Antiterrorism

Law (11)Comparative Constitutional

Design (12,13)Current Issues in International

Financial Regulation (11)Death Penalty: An

International Perspective (11)Developing Countries in

International Economic Law (13)

Dispute Settlement in International Trade and Investment (13)

Ethical Issues in Foreign Policy (11)

European Legal Systems (11,12)European Union Law (11,12,13)Foreign Corrupt Practices Act


Foreign Relations Law (11,12,13)Foundations of Climate

Change Law and Policy (11)French Public and Private Law

(11,12,13)Global Health Law and Policy

(11,12,13)Globalization and

International Civil Litigation (11,12,13)

Human Rights, Public International Law and the Scholarly Process (13)

Immigration Law (11,12,13)Intelligence Law Reform

(11,12,13)International Agreements

(JAG) (11)International and Foreign

Legal Research (11,12,13)International Banking

Transactions (11,12,13)International Business

Transactions (11,12,13)International Criminal Justice:

Its Successes, Failures and Future Prospects (13)

International Criminal Law (12,13)

International Environmental Law (12)

International Financial Crimes (11,12)

International Human Rights (JAG) (11)

International Human Rights Law (11,12,13)

International Ifs in the Long 19th Century (11,12)

International Ifs in the Mid-20th Century (11)

International Investment Law (11,12,13)

International Law (11,12,13)International Law and Global

Economy Colloquium (12)International Law and

International Relations (11,12)

International Law and the Use of Force (13)


International Taxation (11,12)International Tax Policy (12)International Trade Law and

Policy (12)International Trade Regulation

(13)

Israeli Health Law and Bioethics (12,13)

Issues in International and Digital Media (11)

Law and Ethics of Human Subject Research (13)

Law of Sea, Air and Space Operations (JAG) (11,13)

Law of War (11,12,13)Laws of War: Contemporary

Debates (13) Legal and Policy Issues of the

Indochina War (11,13)National Security Detention

(11)National Security Law (11,12,13)Oceans Law and Policy

(11,12,13)Presidential Powers (11,12,13)Refugee Law and Policy (12)Rights and Revolution in

North Africa and the Arab Middle East (12)

Sovereign Debt Crises (12)War and Peace (12)War Crimes (JAG) (11)

cLinicS



JuriSprudence and comparatiVe LaW



American Legal Realism (13) Causation in the Law (11)Civil Rights Litigation (11,12,13)Common Law (13) Comparative Antiterrorism

Law (11)Comparative Constitutional

Design (12,13)Comparative Constitutional

Law (11,12,13)Comparative Education Law

and Policy (13) Comparative Human Rights

Law (12)Constitutional Law II: Freedom

of Speech and Press (12)Constitutional Law II:

Religious Liberty (11,12,13)Constitutional Theory (12,13)Constitutionalism: History and

Jurisprudence (11,12,13)Contemporary Political Theory

(12,13)Duty to Obey (11)Economic Analysis of Public

Law (13)European Legal Systems (11,12)Federal Judicial Process (13) First Amendment Freedoms

(11)French Public and Private Law

(11,12,13)Gender and Legal Theory

(11,12)International Law and Global

Economy Colloquium (12)Introduction to the Civil Law

Tradition (13) Islamic Law (11,13)Israeli Health Law and

Bioethics (12,13)Issues in Criminal Law Theory

(12)Judicial Decision-Making:

Judicial Modesty (12,13)Judicial Philosophy in Theory

and Practice (13) Jurisprudence (11,12,13)Law and Economics (11,13)Law and Economics

Colloquium (11,12,13)Law and Game Theory (12,13)Law and Literature (11,13)Law and the Humanities (11,13)Legal Process: Basic Problems

(13)Legal Theory (13)Legal Theory in Europe

and the United States: A Comparative Analysis (11,13)

Moral Dimensions of Policymaking in the United States (11,13)

Public and Private Rights in American Law (11,12)

Punishment in Law and Culture (11)

Rescue, Charity and Justice (13)Rights (11)Rule of Law (JAG) (11)Rule of Law: Controlling

Government (11,12)Seminar in Ethical Values

(11,12,13)Social Science in Law (11,12,13)Tort Theory (11,12,13)

LegaL hiStorycourSeS and SeminarS

American Legal History (11,12)American Legal Realism (13) American Social and Legal

History (12)An American Half-Century

(12,13)Analysis of the Military

Criminal Legal System (JAG) (11)

Constitutional History I: American Revolution to 1865 (12,13)


Crime and Punishment in American History (13)

Criminal Law and Regulation of Vice (11)

European Legal Systems (11,12)Judicial Role in American

History (11,12,13)Lawyers and the Civil Rights

Movement (11,13)Legal History: Transnational

and Imperial Contexts to 1850 (11,13)

Legal History Colloquium (11)Lochner Era (11,13)Regulating Public Space in


Virginia and the Constitution (11,12,13)

Litigation and procedure


Advanced Legal Research (11,12,13)

Advanced Verbal Persuasion (11,12,13)

Alternative Dispute Resolution (11,12,13)

Causation in the Law (11)Civil Rights Litigation (11,12,13) Class Actions and Aggregate

Litigation (13) Class Actions and Complex

Litigation (11,12)Conflict of Laws (11,12)Construction Law (11,12,13)Criminal Law in the Supreme

Court (11,12,13)Drug Product Liability

Litigation: Principles and Practice (11,12,13)

Ethics and Integrity for Law Firm Lawyers and Their Clients (11,12,13)

Evidence (11,12,13)Evidence Law: Psychological

Bases (12)Expertise, Science and the Law

of Evidence (11)Federal Civil Litigation (12)Federal Courts (11,12,13)Federal Judicial Process (13) Federal Lawyer (11,12,13)Globalization and

International Civil Litigation (11,12,13)

Habeas Corpus (11,13)Hallmarks of Distinguished

Advocacy (11,12,13)Judging (11,12,13)Legal Process: Basic Problems

(13)Legislation (11,12,13)Medical Malpractice and

Health Care Quality (11,12,13)

Negotiation Institute (11,12,13)Oral Presentations Outside the

Courtroom (11,12,13)Personal Injury Law (11,12)Persuasion for Advocates

(11,12,13)Plea Bargaining (11,13)Practical Overview of

Litigation in Federal District Courts (11,12)

Practical Trial Evidence: Principles and Practice (11,12,13)

Pretrial Litigation Skills (12)Professional Responsibility

(11,12,13)Professional Responsibility in

Public Interest Law Practice (11,12,13)

Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (11,12,13)

Quantitative Methods (11,12)Remedies (11,12,13)Remedies II (13)Restitution and Unjust

Enrichment (11)Rhetoric (11,12,13)SEC and Class Action

Enforcement of the Federal Securities Laws (13)

Strategy in Civil Litigation: Pleading and Procedure (11,12)

Tax Practice and Procedure (11,12,13)

Torts II (11)

Trade Secrets: History, Theory and Practice (11,12,13)

Trial Advocacy (11,12,13)Trial Advocacy College

(11,12,13)Trials of the Century: Literary

and Legal Representations of Great Criminal Trials (11)

Virginia Practice and Procedure (11,12,13)

Wrongful Convictions (11)cLinicS

Appellate Litigation Clinic (11,12,13)

Capital Post-Conviction Clinic (11,12,13)

Family Mediation Clinic (11,12,13)

Innocence Project Clinic (11,12,13)

Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (11,12,13)

puBLic poLicy and reguLation


Administrative Law (11,12,13)Advance Directives in Health

Care: Innovation and Impediments (13)

Advanced Campaign Finance (12)


Advising the Board of

Directors in a Mergers and Acquisitions World (11,12,13)

Airline Industry and Aviation Law (12,13)

Animal Law (11,12,13)Antitrust (11,12,13)Antitrust Practice (11,12,13)Antitrust Review of Mergers in

a Global Environment (12,13)Applied Problem Solving

(11,12,13)Banking and Financial

Institutions (11,12,13)Baseball (11,12,13)

Children and the Law (13)Citizenship and Group Identity

(12,13)Class Actions and Complex

Litigation (11,12)Climate Change: Science,

Markets and Policy (12,13)Comparative Education Law

and Policy (13) Constitutional Issues in Higher

Education (12)Consumer Law (13) Criminal Law and Regulation

of Vice (11)Criminology (11,12,13)Direct Democracy (11,12)Education Law, Policy and

Inequality (11,12) Employment Law: Health and

Safety (13)Energy Regulation and Policy

(12,13)Environmental Law (11,12,13)Federal Income Tax (11,12,13)Federal Land, Energy and

Natural Resource Law (11,13)Federal Lawyer (11,12,13)Food and Drug Law (11,12)Foreign Corrupt Practices Act


Foundations of Climate Change Law and Policy (11)

Gender, Status and Economics (13)

Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (11,12,13)

Government Finance: Debt, Budgets and Power (12)

Health Care Marketplace: Competition, Regulation and Reform (12,13)

Health Care Structure and Financing (11)

Historic Preservation Law (11,12,13)

Immigration Law (11,12,13)International Environmental

Law (12)International Trade Law and

Policy (12)Issues in Poverty Law (11,12)Juvenile Justice Reform (13) Land Use Law (11,13)Law and Business Management

in the Health Care Sector (12,13)

Law and Education (11,13)Law and Ethics of Human

Subject Research (13)Law and Policy of Watershed

Management (12,13)Law and Public Service

(11,12,13)Law of Politics (11,12,13)Law of Reproduction (11,13)Law of the Police (12,13)Legal Issues at the End of Life

(11,13)Legislation (11,12,13)Legislative Drafting and Public

Policy (11,12,13) Monetary Constitution (13) Money and Rights (12)Moral Dimensions of

Policymaking in the United

States (11,13)National Security Detention

(11)Native American Law (12)New Frontiers in Clinical

Ethics and Law (13) Poverty, Child Health and

Medical-Legal Partnerships (13)

Poverty, Inequity and Human Rights in Education (11)

Property Theory (12,13)Public Interest Law and

Advocacy Skills (11,12,13)Quantitative Methods (11,12)Refugee Law and Policy (12)Regulating Public Space in


Regulation of Hazardous Substances (13)

Regulation of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste (11)

Regulation of U.S. Industries (11,12,13)

Religion, Democracy and Law (11,12)

Right to Education in U.S.: Real or Hollow? (12,13)

Science and Policy of Biodiversity Conservation (12,13)

Social Work of Law (12)Special Education Law (11,12)Tax Policy and Reform (11)Themes in Biomedicine (11)Topics in Law and Economics

(11)Transactional Approach to

Mergers and Acquisitions (11,12,13)

Urban Law and Policy (11,13) Water Law (11)

cLinicS

Environmental Law and Conservation Clinic (11,12,13)


Litigation and Housing Law Clinic (11,12,13)

race and LaWcourSeS and SeminarS

African-American Lawyers from the Civil War to the Present (11,12,13)

American Legal History (11,12)American Social and Legal

History (12) Civil Rights Litigation (11,12,13)Constitutional History I:

American Revolution to 1865 (12,13)


Criminal Adjudication (11,12,13)

Criminal Investigation (11,12,13)

Criminal Procedure Survey (11,12,13)

Education Law, Policy and Inequality (11,12)

Employment Discrimination (11,12,13)

Family Law (11,12,13)Immigration Law (11,12,13)International Human Rights

Law (11,12,13)Judicial Role in American

History (11,12,13)Juvenile Justice Reform (13) Land Use Law (11,13)Law and Education (11,13)Lawyers and the Civil Rights

Movement (11,13)Local Government Law

(11,12,13)Native American Law (12)Profiling (13)Race and Law (11,12,13)Race and the Constitution in

American History (11)Refugee Law and Policy (12)Rule of Law: Controlling

Government (11,12)Social Science in Law (11,12,13)Special Education Law (11,12)Urban Law and Policy (11,13)What Lawyers Can Learn from

the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King: Looking Back; Looking Forward (11)cLinicS



tax LaWcourSeS and SeminarS

Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (11,12,13)

Corporate Tax (11,12,13)Estate Planning: Principles and

Practice (11,12,13)Estate Planning, Will Drafting

and Taxation (JAG) (11) Federal Income Tax (11,12,13)Federal Income Tax: Advanced

Topics (12,13)Federal Taxation of Gratuitous

Transfers (11,12,13)Gender, Status and Economics

(13) Government Finance: Debt,

Budgets and Power (12)Income Taxation of Trusts and

Estates (11)International Taxation (11,12)International Tax Policy (12)Issues in State and Local

Taxation and Fiscal Policy (11,12,13)

Nonprofit Organizations (11,13)Partnership Tax (11,12,13)Private Equity and Hedge

Funds (13)Quantitative Methods (11,12)Real Estate Transactions:


Retirement Security (11,12,13)Tax Policy and Reform (11)Tax Practice and Procedure

(11,12,13)Tax Shelters: Law and Policy

(11) Taxation and Economic

Development (11,13)cLinic

Nonprofit Clinic (11,12,13)

WoJciech BaginSki ’08poLand

“you will get to make

really good friends here.

i especially enjoyed

the evening barbeques

with fellow LL.m.s, the

different continental

parties held during the

entire academic year, and

sports group activities

which brought the LL.m.

peers together.”

Virginia

VaLueS itS reputation

as a school

that produces

graduates who are

skilled in law

and balanced in life.

Student Life Law students learn in an environment

that fosters cooperative problem-solving and teamwork, building skills

every lawyer needs. Students enjoy their time here, grow intellectually

and personally, and at graduation join the thousands of successful

alumni who recall their law school years with warmth and enthusiasm.

the Law School is enriched by the scope of about 70 student organizations,

extracurricular activities and the community spirit that permeates student

life. the array of opportunities includes 10 academic journals, interest-

centered organizations and a vibrant range of social and athletic activities.

graduate students are encouraged to participate in the many student

organizations at the Law School, including the graduate Law Students

association and the John Bassett moore Society of international Law.

Bar admiSSion

the LL.m. degree alone

does not qualify foreign

lawyers to practice law

in the united States.

each state has its own

criteria and procedures

for admitting lawyers

to practice, and

requirements vary.

Lawyers from abroad

seeking information

on these requirements

should contact the bar

examiners in the state

in which they wish to

practice. in recent years,

approximately one-third

of Virginia’s graduate law

students have taken a bar

examination following

their graduation; most

take the new york Bar.

career SerViceS

the graduate StudieS office works closely

with students to craft a job-search strategy specific

to their unique backgrounds and interests.

practicaL training people who come to the united States on

a student visa are not permitted to seek permanent employment in

the united States. LL.m. graduates may, however, seek permission to

remain in the united States for a limited period of “practical training”

following graduation. Students should be aware that securing such

positions can be challenging and will require significant effort on their

parts. the Law School offers assistance to foreign students in their

searches for practical training internships with leading international

law firms. We also participate annually in the international Student

interview program coordinated each year by the columbia university

School of Law and co-sponsored by the university of Virginia School

of Law and the law schools at the university of chicago, columbia

university, harvard, the university of michigan, Stanford and yale.

degree requirementS

LL.m. requirementS

to receive a master of

Laws degree, candidates

must complete at least two

semesters of residence and

a minimum of 24 credit

hours. at least one of these

hours must by earned by

producing a substantial

research paper. Students

may complete the writing

requirement by taking a

seminar that requires a

long paper, or through

arranging a research project

that results in a substantial

paper. Students must have

at least a 2.3 (c+) grade-

point average to graduate.

S.J.d. requirementS

S.J.d. candidates must

complete a dissertation

in an oral exam by a

committee consisting of the

dissertation supervisor and

two other faculty members

experienced in the field of

the student’s research. the

dissertation must make

an original contribution

to legal literature and

demonstrate mastery of

the principles of scholarly

research and critical

analysis. the dissertation

should be publishable as

a book or a series of law

review articles. after the

oral exam, the committee

will report to the faculty its

opinion of the candidate’s

work and fitness for the

degree. the dissertation

may be submitted and the

oral exam held at any time

within five years of the

student’s admission to the

S.J.d. program. this period

may be extended if the

student shows good cause

submitted in writing to the

graduate committee.

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