VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY 2017, 2018, & 2019 ABA Law Student Division Best Newspaper Award-Winner A Look How to Master the 1L Cold Call..................................2 Inside: Advice for Virginia Law Newbies.................................2 The Best Hiking Spots in Charlottesville......................3 Who’s really to blame for America’s Divide..................5 Wednesday, 28 August 2019 The Newspaper of the University of Virginia School of Law Since 1948 Volume 72, Number 1 Greetings around north From Your grounds Law Weekly Dean Goluboff Thumbs side- Chief ways to school Welcomes Class of 2022 being back in ses- M. Eleanor Schmalzl ’20 sion. On the one Editor-in-Chief hand, ANG is not looking forward to ANG’s fifth year of Civ Pro. On the other Dear UVA Law students, hand, Bilt. old and new, Welcome (and welcome Thumbs up to back)! The Law Weekly the “Office of Pri- has been gearing up for an- vate Practice.” other great year these last (Who we all know few weeks, and we are so is really Career Services in a excited to be at it again. As Scooby-Doo Villain mask.) an intro for 1Ls and LLMs ANG has gone from a ram- who may not know who we bling, unpolished 1L to a are (or 2Ls and 3Ls who rambling, slightly polished have somehow missed the 2L who people somehow glorious reign of this paper want to hire. in their law school careers), the Virginia Law Weekly Thumbs down reports on matters big and to OGI. ANG is small, be it a mouse in the tired of making WB hallway during health small talk about day, snakes under the WB ANG’s interest in porcelain floorboards, a new pric- doll restoration and ANG’s ing regime in the UVA Law amateur pet psychiatry Copy Center, or changes practice. in Virginia Law Review’s membership policy. While Thumbs up to the we aim to be informative new furniture in and to report on major Law chology, and more—that so that others can listen or the updated class- School happenings, we also Risa Goluboff will enable you to see the listen even when the mes- rooms. ANG didn’t try not to take ourselves Dean, University of Virginia big picture wherever your sage is hard to hear, but our think the WB seats could get too seriously. As last year’s School of Law career takes you. You will community of trust and be- any more comfortable! And Editor-in-Chief, Jansen leave here able not only to longing makes that possible. ANG thinks the traffic cones VanderMeulen ’19, said in deploy the law as it is but Moreover, those skills are in SL 278 are a nice touch. his outgoing column in the What a momentous time also to envision what the essential to analyzing and spring, this paper offers to welcome you to UVA Law law can and should be in the solving problems, consider- Thumbs down stories about life at the Law School. Over the course of future. In other words, we ing every argument, explor- to first day read- School from the perspec- the next two years, we will will carry on our 200-year ing every idea, arguing for ing. ANG needs tive of students, and that’s observe both the bicenten- tradition of educating ser- your side, and collaborat- to be coddled and something students really nial of our founding and the vants and leaders of the law. ing with the other. In other eased back into any sort of can’t get anywhere else. centennial of coeducation. At the same time, evi- words, learning how to talk academic work. @1L profes- Because we have a clear As we commemorate these dence of how much has and listen with profession- sors, have you ever heard of monopoly on our read- important milestones, con- changed at UVA Law School alism, respect, and empathy syllabus week? ers, we hope to at least do tinuity and change are both over the past two centuries in a diverse community like a good job of it by making much in evidence. From its is all around us. Most fun- ours is essential to becom- Thumbs up to you laugh and helping you charter in 1819 as an origi- damentally, who we edu- ing the exceptional lawyers PILA grants. With- feel connected to the many nal “department” of the Uni- cate has broadened in ev- you are all here to become. out them ANG parts of the Law School versity of Virginia, this law ery conceivable way from I know that many of you would have need- community, even those school began educating stu- our founding. Almost 100 are asking exactly what kind ed to live in an even danker you may not interact with dents broadly, with courses years ago, Rose May Davis of lawyer you will be and basement this summer and closely on a regular basis. in political theory and po- ’22 and Elizabeth Tompkins what kind of practice you would not have been able While I am writing to all litical economy as well as ’23 became the first women will pursue. You are right to to subsist on ramen noodles students here, I want to more strictly legal subjects. to attend the Law School as be asking those questions, and corn dogs. But this is emphasize to the 1Ls how Its purpose was to train ex- regular students. Almost 70 but I urge you not to be in all pretending ANG had se- much the paper hopes you ceptional lawyers for both years ago, Gregory Swanson too much of a hurry to an- cured a summer job. will engage with us during the practice of law as well as ’51 became the first African swer them. Some of you may your time at law school. service to and leadership of American. Today, our com- have arrived here with set Thumbs side- The best way to do this is to the new democracy that was munity of students, faculty, plans for how you will use ways to crazy attend weekly editing meet- the United States. and staff is as diverse in your law degree, and per- summer campus ings in SL 279, eat some That continues to be the backgrounds, experiences, haps you will end up just security alerts. dinner (free Domino’s piz- mission of this Law School, beliefs, and passions as we where you expect. For many ANG hopes the next one za every week; it’s not Bel- and it is one that I hope are unified in our commit- of you, those plans will will involve a wacky genetic Air sandwiches—we’re not shapes your time here. We ment to the importance of change. And for those of you experiment escaped from made of money—but free will teach you the funda- the law and the legal educa- who don’t yet have a plan, the secluded UVA School of is free), and edit a piece or mentals of how to think tion that supports it. don’t worry. I am not wor- Medicine. two. Who knows, maybe an (and write and speak) with Such diversity is a gift. ried about any of you, what- employer will confuse the the analytical reasoning and Take advantage of what it ever your situation. There is Congratulations Law Weekly with a schol- precision of a lawyer. We offers. Meet people who so much you can’t possibly on the happy nup- arly journal––as they have will offer you opportunities are different from you, get know yet. tials of Mika Bray in past years––or ask you to work with real clients on to know them, learn from These next three years and Ian Carlin. about the times the paper real cases so that you can them. The honest and re- will transform you as you ANG loves wed- has been cited by SCO- acquire the integrity, judg- spectful exchange of ideas gain a new vocabulary and dings, and UVA Law wed- TUSblog1 or the Supreme ment, and perspective that is invaluable—not only in a new way of thinking, as dings are always a good you learn most effectively the classroom, but also in you learn the tools and time. 1 Edith Roberts, Poten- through experience. And we Scott Commons, in the sec- substance of the law. Law tial nominee profile: Amul will expose you to the broad tions you have been as- school will change you by Heart to Wel- sweep of interdisciplinary signed and the organiza- coming the Class perspectives—economics, tions you choose to join. It WELCOME page 6 of 2022 and seeing EIC GREETINGS page 5 jurisprudence, history, psy- is not always easy to speak old friends!! 2 Columns VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY Wednesday, 28 August 2019 The 1L Guide to Surviving Cold Calls The dreaded 1L cold call. It’s slide them on down.2 ing. Unless you are one of the answer, I found the “wrong” an- yourself by remembering that, a moment dramatized by Le- Don’t: Let your guard down ultra-geniuses that live among swer a student gave on a cold call and keeping in mind that you’re gally Blonde and Other Law after the cold call is done. The us who can figure out everything really insightful. Sometimes giv- playing the role of someone as professor may come back for on the spot,3 it’s going to be a re- ing a wrong answer will result in well. You can think of yourself as Jacob Jones ‘21 you for a comparison on the case ally awkward ten minutes of you a professor pointing you towards the witty lawyer before a judge, a Events Editor you were just grilled on.
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