If you had made your way to Caplin Pavilion for the Lile Moot Court Semifinals on the 6th of this month, your primary takeaway would have been a greater and more intimate understanding of what good ...

For the second straight semester, the best bakers in Virginia, if not the wider Mid-Atlantic region and the universe, ...

Your third-grade teacher told you not to start a sentence with “and.” Your third-grade teacher was wrong, says Bryan Garner, the legal writing guru. [1] There’s no question that advocates and judges ...

Before I begin this review, I admittedly do not have any memory of watching any of the Paranormal Activity franchise. Perhaps I have, but at some point. But with horror movies, they tend to all blend ...

The further I’ve gotten into 1L, the more situations I’ve discovered that feel strikingly similar to the most notorious, frightening, and borderline distasteful horror movie clichés. So, in light of H ...

A Wednesday evening in law school is a test of mettle. A Monday event ran longer than you thought, so you put off your readings for Tuesday, and now your entire schedule is thrown off until Friday ...

Complaint, submitted by Hortense H. Hoofington V, Esq. For too long, the great horses of Virginia and beyond have been oppressed by humanity and its lack thereof. Foxfield represents the worst nadir ...

On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Louisiana v. Callais . The majority said it was reading Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act “as properly construed.” Justice Kagan, in ...

When one grows up in the Pacific Northwest, one makes friends with the rain. It is the inevitable. However, sitting on the hour-long drive from Charlottesville to Doswell as water droplets thump ...

Welcome to Hot Bench, and thank you for your time! Could you start by sharing your name, year, and hometown? Sure! My name is Mina Ghani, I’m a 1L, and I’m from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. I’ve heard ...