Features

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The Goldwater whisperers

Research experiences and faculty mentorship are a powerful combination for Spiders competing for prestigious national fellowships and scholarships.

Professor Mary Tate, Baley Ellicott L'24, and Anne Wroniewicz sit around a table talking.
October 3, 2024
Post-conviction Law
Conviction is not the end

Richmond Law’s Institute for Actual Innocence clinic works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and advocate for the overly punished — a challenge that demands as much heart as it does intellect.

An illustration showing silhouettes of two lawyers sitting at laptops, facing each other. One lawyer looks exhausted and frustrated, sitting with her head on her hand. Multiple duplicate silhouettes of her fade off into the distance behind her. The other lawyer sits upright and alert. Binary code comes out of her computer towards her face representing her use of AI assistive technology.
October 2, 2024
Artificial Intelligence
Law’s newest laboratory
As AI shifts the professional landscape for practicing attorneys, legal education adapts to the latest technological disruption.
Brother Rutter, L’94, in The Rutter Family Art Foundation space
October 1, 2024
Work-life Balance
Take good care
Brother Rutter, L’94, says prioritizing his roles as husband, father, and arts patron made him a more empathetic injury lawyer.
Coutrney Paulk swims in the ocean. She is wearing a pink swimcap and goggles
April 3, 2024
Courtney Paulk’s endurance mindset

Open-water swimmers face immense physical challenges, but this attorney says the mental fortitude required is even more demanding — and it makes her a better lawyer.

A Ukrainian serviceman takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 10, 2022.
April 3, 2024
Reparations for Ukraine
Professor Chiara Giorgetti is co-developing a mechanism to hold Russia accountable for violations of international law in Ukraine.
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March 29, 2024
Come hell or high water
Three professors analyze the global climate crisis, each conducting research intending to shape the future of climate regulations.
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September 29, 2023
The technology battlefield
Associate professor Rebecca Crootof is on the front lines of considering new legal horizons as technologies evolve.
April 10, 2023
100 years of women at Richmond Law
Jane Brown Ranson, Class of 1923, broke new ground when she became Richmond Law’s first female graduate. A century later, another woman graduate is at the heart of a milestone for the school.
April 10, 2023
The rules of (civic) engagement
Professor Hank Chambers writes that the independent state legislature doctrine could reverse 200 years of progress and take power away from the people. Plus, a Q&A with him about election law.
April 10, 2023
The more you give
Spiders celebrated for their volunteerism share advice about working pro bono.