Family, friends and the UVA Law community memorialize Richard Austin Merrill, seventh dean of the Law School, who died Oct. 26, 2017. A mentor to generations of students and professors and an innovator in legal education, Merrill served as dean from 1980 to 1988 and was a member of the faculty for 38 years until his retirement in 2007. He was a nationally recognized expert on administrative, environmental, and food and drug law. Speakers at the service include former Dean John C. Jeffries, Jr. '73; Stanford Law School Dean and former UVA Law Vice Dean Liz Magill '95; and Merrill's children, Patty Merrill '92 and John M. Merrill. (University of Virginia School of Law, Jan. 5, 2018)

A panel of national security experts discusses what actions constitute a "cyber attack," when a state can respond to a cyber attack through the use of armed force and how the Law of Armed Conflict applies to cyber attacks and state responses. The panel consists of Col. Gary Corn, staff judge advocate to the United States Cyber Command; retired Col. Gary Brown, former staff judge advocate to the United States Cyber Command; retired Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap Jr., executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University; and Capt. Todd Huntley, faculty at the Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 15, 2017)

UVA Law professors Rich Schragger and Molly Brady, and Yishai Blank, professor of law at Tel-Aviv University, discuss if cities have — or should have — free speech rights that override restrictive state laws. (University of Virginia School of Law, November 13, 2017)

UVA Law professor Brandon Garrett delivers a chair lecture on his new book, "End of Its Rope," to mark his appointment as the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs. "End of Its Rope" describes analyses of hand-collected national data on death sentences from 1990 to 2016. Garrett's presentation explores implications of the death penalty's decline for efforts to reform criminal justice more broadly. (University of Virginia School of Law, November 10, 2017)

Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed delivered the McCorkle Lecture on "Black Citizenship, Law, and the Founding." (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 9, 2017)

UVA Law professor Barbara Armacost gives an overview of the police response to the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12. She also describes her experiences as a legal observer during the protests. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 3, 2017)

A panel of UVA Law faculty advises 1L students on selecting electives for their spring semester. The panel features UVA Law professors Deborah Hellman, George Geis and Crystal Shin, and Dean Risa Goluboff. (University of Virginia School of Law, October 24, 2017)

A panel of journalists discusses challenges they face in reporting truthfully and objectively. The panel features Richard Leiby, editor at The Washington Post; Robert Blau, managing editor at Bloomberg News; Paige Lavender, senior politics editor at HuffPost; and Peter Hasson, associate editor at The Daily Caller. UVA Law professor Deborah Hellman acted as moderator. The panel was part of the first Common Law Grounds symposium, "Of Bubbles and Biases: The Press and Democratic Debate." (University of Virginia School of Law, October 20, 2017)

A symposium panel of experts looks at what happens when the federal government deregulates environmental protections and states and organizations step in to fill the gap. UVA Law professor Michael Livermore, George Mason University law professor Caroline Cecot and Florida State University law professor Hannah Wiseman discuss the issues. The symposium was sponsored by the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. (University of Virginia School of Law, October 19, 2017)

Ed Whalen, co-author of “Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived,” and UVA Law professors Aditya Bamzai and John Duffy, all former Justice Antonin Scalia law clerks, discuss how Scalia’s speeches reflected his personality and writing style outside the Supreme Court. The event was sponsored by the Federalist Society and the St. Thomas More Society. (University of Virginia School of Law, Oct. 17, 2017)