Virginia Law Weekly

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Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions on access to issues of the Virginia Law Weekly.

Terms of access:

The Virginia Law Weekly, an independent student organization, published the materials in this collection. It owns the copyright to any content that is not yet in the public domain or was licensed from another party. Individuals who wish to re-publish copyright-protected content will need to seek permission from the party or parties that own it.

Summary

Extent:
73 Volumes, 2.522 Gigabytes, and 6 Linear Feet 4 boxes
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of print and digital copies of the Virginia Law Weekly. The periodical, managed by University of Virginia Law students, features news articles, opinion columns, humor articles, photographs, advertisements, and other content. It documents life at the School of Law, as well as student perspectives of the law and the broader world around them.

Since its founding in 1948, students at the Virginia School of Law have published print editions of the Virginia Law Weekly. This series contains most of the print editions.

Since the 1990s, digital copies of the Virginia Law Weekly have been published online and freely available on the Internet. This series consists of captures archivists made of the online edition. The online edition contains news articles, features, newspaper staff lists, reviews, columns, and pdf copies of past print editions.

This file consists of wacz and associated metadata files that the Law Library produced while crawling the Virginia Law Weekly website on May 13, 2024. On this date, the website contained content that the Virginia Law Weekly published between November 2016 and April 2024.

Biographical / historical:

University of Virginia School of Law students founded the Virginia Law Weekly in 1948. Since then, they have published print issues almost weekly during the School's academic year. In the 1990s, law students began to post digital versions of the newspaper online.

Acquisition information:
The Arthur J. Morris Law Library collected the issues in this collection and transferred them to the archive.
Appraisal information:

The materials in this file initially existed as web pages. Archivists strive to capture online resources and preserve them in a state close to how they would have appeared to users when they were live. However, to overcome technological limitations and to allow for sustainable preservation, archivists often made appraisal decisions that resulted in archived websites that function and look different from the originals.

Accruals:

The Arthur J. Morris Law Library expects to add additional items to this collection.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
University of Virginia. School of Law