Credits: 4
The course is a general introduction to property concepts and different types of property interests, particularly real property. The course surveys present and future estates in land, ownership and concurrent ownership. Leasehold interests, gifts and bequests, covenants and servitudes, conveyancing, various land use restrictions, eminent domain, and intellectual and personal property issues are also considered.
Credits: 3
This course will explore the regulation of land use, with an emphasis on the constitutional and environmental dimensions of land use law. The course will begin with the basic elements of the land development and regulation process, including the basics of planning and zoning. We will also address public ownership and private alternatives to regulation.
Credits: 3
This course is the first semester of a year-long course considering the jurisprudence of religious liberty in the United States with special emphasis on recent judicial and scholarly debates about religious exemptions, corporate religious rights, equal funding of the religious mission, church autonomy, religion's distinctiveness, and the future of church-state separation.
Credits: 3
This course is the second semester of a year-long course considering the jurisprudence of religious liberty in the United States with special emphasis on recent judicial and scholarly debates about religious exemptions, corporate religious rights, equal funding of the religious mission, church autonomy, religion's distinctiveness, and the future of church-state separation.
Credits: 3
This directed study is one part of a two-part full-time externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization.
Credits: 1
Eligible students receive credit for serving as research assistants supervised by selected law school faculty members.
Credits: 1
This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member.
Credits: 2
This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member
Credits: 3
This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member.
This course is the first semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member.
Credits: 3
This course is the second semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member.
This is the first semester of a yearlong seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader.
Credits: 1
This is the second semester of a yearlong seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader.
Credits: 3
This course will examine the legal, economic, and political forces that have shaped American metropolitan areas with particular attention to the policies that have shaped American cities and suburbs. The course will consider issues such as sprawl, racial segregation, housing, education, land use, concentrated poverty, and community economic development.
Credits: 3
This research seminar focuses on the legal issues relating to Charlottesville's political, social, and economic development. It explores larger themes in land use, local government, and property theory by studying the physical development of Charlottesville and Albemarle from 1634 to the present.
Credits: 2–3
In this seminar we will study liberalism and its contemporary critics. We will begin by considering what liberalism is, in its political, philosophical, economic, and legal forms. Then we survey various critiques--religious, communitarian, libertarian, socialist, populist, among others.
Credits: 3
This course will focus on the legal, political, and social history of Charlottesville in order to develop a broader account of how race, law, land use, and economic development intersect in a small southern town. The physical development of Charlottesville from colonial to present times will be discussed, as will subjects such as residential racial segregation, redevelopment, urban renewal, school desegregation, and citycounty conflicts.
Credits: 3
This course invites students to inquire into the relationship between places and law specific to those places. It will explore not only how law is tailored to particular physical, social, and cultural environments but also how it shapes those environments as it is applied.