The VLW Blog

A new law review at the College of William & Mary will deal with business law issues.
According to a press release from the law school, the first issue of the student-edited William & Mary Business Law Review will be published in the spring.

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Davison M. Douglas, the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law, has been named the next dean of the William & Mary law school.
Douglas succeeds Taylor Reveley, who served as dean of the law school for nearly 10 years before moving to the president’s office in February 2008, according to the William & Mary Web site. [...]

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Organizers of a new, Virginia-based project want to raise the profile of state supreme courts in the U.S.
The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary law school and the National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, are backing the “State Supreme Court Initiative.”
The project intends to enhance the visibility of [...]

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A second-year law student will be among the 13 Virginia electors when they gather in Richmond on Dec. 15 to formally vote Virginia for the Obama-Biden ticket.  As noted by the law school at the College of William & Mary, Christia V. Rey will represent the first Congressional district
“George Wythe would be very proud of [...]

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Williamsburg attorney Alvin P. Anderson died Friday, Nov. 28, at age 60.
Mr. Anderson was a member of the executive committee at the law firm of Kaufman & Canoles, where chairman William R. Van Buren III said that he will be greatly missed.  “Alvin was a critical member of our leadership team and a respected and [...]

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An e-mail sent to the community of the College of William & Mary suggests that interim president Taylor Reveley may lose his “interim” status.
The Daily Press has details here with a link to the e-mail.
By Peter Vieth

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Former College of William & Mary president Gene Nichol and his wife, Glenn George, are headed to Chapel Hill, NC, to rejoin the faculty of the University of North Carolina law school, reports The Daily Press.
Nichol resigned the W&M presidency abruptly last month after learning his contract would not be renewed; he and George [...]

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The Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary announced in a statement this morning that President Gene Nichol had resigned following the board’s decision not to renew his contract.
Nichol also released a statement, noting that he will return to the faculty of the William and Mary law school.
Nichol’s 16-month tenure [...]

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Hope, Emily Dickinson famously once wrote, is a thing with feathers.
The new logo for the College of William and Mary is a thing without feathers. The NCAA decided the two feathers on the school’s previous logo were “hostile and abusive” to Native Americans.
But the new logo is pretty hopeless. It’s dull. W&M is [...]

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Here’s one for the alums of Their Majesties’ Royall Colledge of William and Mary in Virginia: The Delly has been saved.
The College Delly, that is.
Back story: Last September, a plan filed with the Williamsburg Architectural Review Board provided a shock: Starbucks was going to buy The College Delly, and turn it into…well, a [...]

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