Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 as part of his "academical village", and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, each class in the three-year J.D.

The school has over 20,000 alumni in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 64 foreign countries.

In 1995–1997, UVA Law used entirely donated funds to renovate and expand its buildings on the university's North Grounds to include the former facilities of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, which built a new campus several hundred yards away.

The Arthur J. Morris Law Library holds more than 820,000 volumes, including substantial collections of federal, state, and international documents, manuscripts, archives, and online research databases.

[15] Each spring, over one hundred students write, direct and perform in The Libel Show, a comedy and musical theater production that was first organized in 1904.

Its performers roast law school professors, student stereotypes and life in Charlottesville throughout each of its three nightly showings.

The school hosts an annual softball tournament to raise money for ReadyKids, an organization that provides care and counseling for at-risk families in Central Virginia, and the Public Interest Law Association, which provides public service internships for law students.

In addition, UVA Law offers rising third-year students the opportunity to obtain a dual degree from Sciences Po in Paris.

[21] UVA Law includes several internationally known special programs and centers directed by faculty members.

[24] According to UVA Law's official ABA-required disclosures, 95.4% of the Class of 2022 obtained non-school funded full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation.

[28] Additionally, UVA Law is second only to Harvard in the number of alumni serving as chief legal counsel at Fortune 500 companies.

[29] In a 2010 study by Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Virginia ranked fifth in the number of lawyers at the top 300 U.S. law firms.

[29] In 2016 UVA Law alumni set a school record for obtaining the most appellate court clerkships in a term.