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RG 32. School of Law

 University Record
Identifier: RG 32
Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

Summer Law Class records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-402

Faculty biographical files - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-403
Scope and Contents

Vertical files with faculty memorabilia gathered by Special Collections since 1982. Consist of newspapers articles, papers, invitations, programs, etc.

Dates: 2014

Examinations of the University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-401
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of examinations that the University of Virginia Law School administered to students between 1890 and 2018. It also includes a few examples of examination answers.

The examinations exist in diverse media formats. Most of them are printed on paper, and most printed examinations are bound together into volumes. The other examinations were born digital and were initially made available to students online or on digital media (e.g., CDs, DVDs).

Dates: 1890 - 2018

Faculty Long-Range Planning Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-312
Abstract

Committee files

Dates: 1977

Ephemera collection - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-404
Scope and Contents

Special Collection has been collecting these miscellaneous files over a period of many decades. There is an excel.doc with all the information.

Dates: 1866 - 2005

Commencement records - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-514
Scope and Contents

These print and digital records document commencement ceremonies and related events at the University of Virginia School of Law. They include event programs, video recordings, and websites.

Dates: 1976 - 2024

Alumni biographical files - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-406
Scope and Contents

These files contain biographical information of alumni.

Dates: 1901 - 1997

Awards, trophies, and artifacts collection - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-407
Scope and Contents

Collection of miscellaneous artifacts: awards, trophies, trophies, brass plates

Dates: 1947 - 1999

Online news and media - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-504
Scope and Contents

This resource consists of online media collections that the University of Virginia School of Law curated and disseminated online. They generally consist of news articles, videos, and sound recordings. These materials document the School of Law's wide-ranging work and provide evidence of how the School markets itself to the broader world.

Dates: 2005 - 2023

Website collection - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-501
Scope and Contents This collection contains copies of the University of Virginia School of Law's public website. On this site, the School shares content that documents its work and the experiences of its students, faculty, staff, and alums. This includes statistics, policies, program descriptions, summaries of services, links to affiliated organizations, news articles, videos, directories, marketing materials, short histories, and published research. While the website potentially reaches a broad audience, much...
Dates: 2004 - 2023

Directories of the University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-502
Scope and Contents This collection of print and digital directories list the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the University of Virginia School of Law. It contains the following series of materials: Alumni Directories of the University of Virginia School of Law (1940-2005)Directory of the Faculty and Students of the University of Virginia (1942-1943)Directory of the Law School, University of Virginia (1947-1973)Faculty Directories of the University of Virginia School of...
Dates: 1940 - 2023

Annual reports - University of Virginia School of Law Foundation

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-509
Scope and Contents The University of Virginia Law School Foundation published these annual reports to share information about the organization and solicit gifts. The reports were distributed to a broad audience of potential donors, and they included the following content: letters from the Dean of Law, statements from Foundation leadership, summaries of Foundation programs, lists of donors, and Foundation budget statements.Between 1977 and 1990, the University of Virginia School of Law published the...
Dates: 1953-1976 and 1990-2023

Virginia Law School Report

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-510
Scope and Contents

This collection includes at least 2 copies of every issue of the Virginia Law School Report. Issues of The Report contain articles that highlight the work of students, faculty, and administrators at the University of Virginia School of Law. Also, between 1977 and 1990, the annual reports for the University of Virginia Law School Foundation were published here.

Dates: 1977 - 1994

Virginia Law Weekly

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-511
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of print and digital copies of the Virginia Law Weekly. The periodical, managed by University of Virginia Law students, features news articles, opinion columns, humor articles, photographs, advertisements, and other content. It documents life at the School of Law, as well as student perspectives of the law and the broader world around them.

Dates: 1948 - 2025

Yearbook collection - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-512
Scope and Contents This collection of yearbooks documents the experiences of law students who attended the University of Virginia between 1888 and 2009. It contains both "Corks and Curls", the main University of Virginia student yearbook, and "The Barrister", the UVA law student yearbook. Researchers will discover a wide range of content in these books, including student, staff, and faculty photographs, candid glimpses into student life, and student organization profiles.Many volumes of "Corks and...
Dates: 1888 - 2009

Barrister records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-32-212
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of contact sheets and photographic negatives used in the Barrister yearbook.

Dates: circa 1974-1983

The Virginia Eagle records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-216
Scope and Contents

The Virginia Eagle was founded in 2002 as a “non-partisan political quarterly published by the University of Virginia School of Law.” Stephanie Russek, Ian Bryan, Lynne C. Fogarty, Kevin G. Ritz and Joseph Tubin were the founders of the new student publication that "wanted to explore the events that unfold far outside of our bucolic quadrangle, in “The Real World”.”

The Virginia Eagle had a short life and became inactive in 2004.

Dates: 2002 - 2004

The Federalist Society at the University of Virginia records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-214
Scope and Contents The Federalist Society at the University of Virginia School of Law was constituted in April 18, 1988 as a “Contracted Independent Organization (CIO) at the University of Virginia and is associated with the national Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.” Their mission is “to promote awareness and debate of law and public policy issues, with particular emphasis on the principles of judicial restraint, individual liberty, and the separation of governmental...
Dates: 1983 - 2004

Virginia Tax Review records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-220
Scope and Contents The Records of the Virginia Tax Review [1993-2010]t (1 archival box, .3 linear ft.), consist of administrative files related to the publication of the journal. The archives retained contracts with the authors, two files of correspondence with Mortimer Caplin, an SBA file with a handbook and guidelines, and the Course Syllabus for the Alternative Dispute Resolution class taught by William L. Waddell.Orders of contract proof, distribution and offprint orders were recycled after...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1993-2019