![]() ![]() ![]() In the last year at Northwestern, Wang has hosted 10 online and in-person moots. ![]() The institute offers lawyers who are scheduled to argue before full panels of appellate circuit court judges a place to practice their arguments in a full dress rehearsal before faculty, alumni and practitioners. He plans to bring the network, and another new program ― the En Banc Institute ― to UVA. Since its launch, the network site “has been used many times by practitioners and clinicians and law students.” It also was a finalist in Bloomberg’s inaugural Law School Innovation Program award. “I saw an opportunity to increase collaboration among clinics, all of which are producing high-quality work, but which didn’t necessarily collaborate or share resources,” he said. So much energy that Wang used his “down” time while recovering from a concussion to build an innovative program at Northwestern.īecause he couldn’t look at a computer screen for long, he read books on coding to learn how to make a searchable database of briefs, syllabi and other classroom resources for his National Appellate Clinic Network. I’ll be excited to see where he takes it.” “He’s got lots of energy, ambition and he certainly knows the tricks of the trade. Ortiz will remain on the faculty and continue to teach courses in administrative law, constitutional law and election law. Ortiz, who helped launch the clinic in 2006 and has led it in the 17 years since. That’s something I’m so excited for, and it is really a privilege to have that opportunity.” Hopefully it’s a place for me to still do that, and also to teach and to have a great impact and influence on the next generation of UVA students. “It was a place for me to grow and develop and to learn. “Charlottesville is just such an entrancing and wonderful place,” Wang said. He is the founder of the Virginia Policy Review. Prior to that, he was an appellate litigator at Wilkinson Stekloff and Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.Ī graduate of Yale Law School, Wang is also a Double Hoo, earning his bachelor’s degree in economics with highest distinction as a Jefferson Scholar and his master’s degree in public policy as one of the first students to graduate from the University’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Wang is currently director of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Appellate Advocacy Center, supervising the school’s Federal Appellate and Supreme Court clinics. Its alumni includes polar explorer Richard Byrd, author Edgar Allen Poe, artist Georgia O’Keefe, and Tina Fey, writer, actress and TV producer.Xiao Wang, a professor known for his innovations as an appellate clinic leader, is joining the University of Virginia School of Law faculty to direct its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. The University of Virginia has produced eight NASA astronauts, eight Pulitzer Prize winners and 51 Rhodes Scholars – the most from any state-supported university and the most in America’s South. The library still plays a central role in the life of the university, offering five million print volumes of books, 16 million manuscripts and home to a vast digital archive that works to preserve physical works, such as the Jefferson Papers, as well as rare video from the Civil Rights Era. ![]() In 1815, the newly-formed Library of Congress acquired Jefferson’s personal collection of 6,487 books on philosophy, science and literature. When Jefferson was designing the university, he placed a library, not a chapel (as was customary), at the centre of the institution to indicate a commitment to the pursuit of knowledge. The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, dating back to 1825, is the oldest continuously debating student society in the US and continues to meet at 7.29pm every Friday in Jefferson Hall, as it always has. It is also renowned for its secret societies and many of the university’s 20,000-plus students are reputed to be members of societies that go by the names of ‘Seven’, ‘IMP’ and ‘Z’. Breaking any of these three rules may result in a trial before students, without any faculty present, and, if proved guilty, expulsion. The honours system holds that students must not lie, cheat, or steal. The university is known for its student-run honours system, introduced in 1842 after a professor was shot and killed on campus. National Bureau of Economic Research as the ‘happiest city in America.’ In 2014, Charlottesville was named by the U.S. It’s located in Charlottesville, Virginia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and bustling tourist centre just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The University of Virginia is a public institution founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, who also served on the university’s original board alongside two other former US presidents (Madison and Monroe). ![]()
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