RG 32. School of Law

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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.

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...

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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.

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This collection consists of materials that document the work of the State and Local Government Policy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. These materials include websites and publications. The collection also contains items documenting the clinic's participation in major projects including the Commission to Examine Racial and Economic Inequality in Virginia Law (2019-2022).

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This collection includes audio recordings of all the conference panels and addresses.

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These files contain biographical information of alumni.

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

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

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

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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.

Scope and Contents The records of the Communications Office document the department's contributions to the University of Virginia School of Law. The collection contains copies of printed matter produced by the office, including admissions information booklets, brochures, flyers, posters, reports, conference and symposium programs, postcards, and stationary. Also, it contains some of the resources used to produce the printed matter and other content. These include photographic slides, prints, and negatives;...

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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.

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This collection primarily documents the history of the Libel Show at the University of Virginia School of Law. It includes the following materials dating from 1930 to the present: scripts, programs, video recordings, tickets, photographs, posters, and clippings.

In addition to these materials, collection RG-32-201 contains a membership book for the University of Virginia chapter of Phi Delta Phi (Minor Inn). The book dates from 1890 to 1957.

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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).

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...

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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).

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This is a collection of memorabilia: uniform, sweatshirt, etc.

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These records were found in the accession folder in 2022. They were transferred to the archives in 1985. [Maybe by Prof. John Norton Moore?]

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This collection contains items that librarians and archivists have used while researching the history of the University of Virginia School of Law. These materials include unpublished essays, published historical articles, datasets, and research notes.