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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:

Virginia Law Review records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-203
Scope and Contents The office files of the Virginia Law Review were routinely transferred to the archives between 1978 and 1985. The records consist primarily of administrative correspondence and other materials from the office of the editor-in-chief, and correspondence with writers of articles. There is also some documentation related to the organization and function of law student organizations. Initially the archives retained all editing material, but subsequently, only selected stages of the...
Dates: 1960 - 1981

Office of Student Affairs (formerly Office of the Dean of Students) records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-104
Scope and Contents

These records comprise academic procedures, policies, standards, calendars, curriculum, faculty rules and policies, faculty meeting minutes (1986-1989), and other administrative files. Also included are informational packages given to accepted students.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1969-1988, 2012

Office of Placement records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-103
Scope and Contents

This record comprises reports on placement for female graduates; and Placement Report to the Dean, 1977.

Dates: 1977

Assistant/Associate Dean records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-101
Dates: Majority of material found in 1979-2001

Alumni Day records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-110

Student Legal Forum records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-200
Scope and Contents

The records of the Student Legal Forum are comprised of general files, correspondence, photos, newspapers clippings, card file of speakers, tapes and miscellaneous materials.

Of note is a scrapbook of clippings begun when Robert Kennedy was president of the SLF.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1946-1987

Student Advisory Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-205

Virginia Journal of International Law records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-206
Dates: Deaccession: 1981 - 1985

Virginia Law Women records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-209

The Virginia Law Weekly records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-204
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the Virginia Law Weekly's organizational records including founding documents, correspondence, and digital media. It also contains photographic prints, negatives, and contact sheets used in the production of the Virginia Law Weekly.

Dates: 1948 - 2009

Legal Assistance Society records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-211

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

Women of Color (WOC) records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-218

Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Virginia Law Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-217
Scope and Contents

The administrative records, scrapbooks, websites, newsletters, and artifacts in this collection document the history of the Virginia Law Chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA).

Dates: circa 1990 - 2024