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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:

Law School Renovation Project records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-313

Long Range Curriculum Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-304
Scope and Contents

These files contain principally memoranda and reports of the committee.

Dates: 1971 - 1984

Faculty Dean Search Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-303
Scope and Contents

Records for the 1976 selection of Emerson Spies to succeed Monrad Paulsen as dean.

Dates: 1976

Faculty biographical files - University of Virginia School of Law

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-403
Scope and Contents

Faculty memorabilia consisting of newspapers articles, papers, invitations, programs, etc.

Dates: Circa 1895 - 2019

Office of Career Services at the University of Virginia School of Law records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-315
Scope and Contents This collection of administrative files related to the graduation awards given to law students every year, was transferred to the Law Library Special Collections Department January and March of 2012 by Kevin M. Donovan, Senior Assistant Dean for Career Services. We also received University of Virginia Final Exercises programs, University of Virginia School of Law Commencement Exercises programs, class profile brochures and some photographs housed in floppy disks. In May 2013, Steve Hopson,...
Dates: 1982 - 2008

Faculty Curriculum Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-305
Scope and Contents

Files for committee matters. Also one file on the Student Curriculum Committee (chaired by Nusbaum in 1979)

Dates: 1973 - 1992

Law School Student Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-400
Dates: circa 1846 - 1966

Center for Law and National Security records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-350

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: 1969 - 2012

Post-Conviction Assistance Project records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-213

Black Law Students Association, 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

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

Legal Assistance Society records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-211

Assistant/Associate Dean records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-101

Special Committee on Clinical Education records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-310
Scope and Contents

Memorandum and interim report.

Dates: 1981 - 1982

Summer Law Class records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-402

Alumni biographical files

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-406
Scope and Contents

These files contain biographical information of alumni.

Dates: circa 1901 - 1997

Communications Office records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-314
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;...
Dates: circa 1978 to 2021

Law examinations - 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

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