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Schragger, who joined the faculty in 2001, is the Perre Bowen Professor of Law, and Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, federalism, urban policy, and the constitutional and economic status of cities. He also writes about law and religion.

He has written articles on the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, the role of cities in a federal system, local recognition of same-sex marriage, takings law and economic development, and the history of the anti-chain store movement. A faculty senior fellow at �鶹�ƽ�� Miller Center, he teaches property, local government law, urban law and policy, and church and state.

Verdier, who joined the faculty in 2009, is the John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law and director of the Graduate Studies Program. He specializes in public international law, banking and financial regulation, and international economic relations. Verdier’s current research focuses on the reception of international law in domestic legal systems, foreign state immunity and customary international law.

He is the author of the book “Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance.” His paper, “International Law in National Legal Systems: An Empirical Investigation,” co-written with professor Mila Versteeg, was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in a precedent-setting ruling that holds Canadian companies accountable for human rights abuses.

Prior to joining the faculty, Verdier was a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Canada, practiced corporate and financial law with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City, and was a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law.

Building Goodness Foundation Honors Recent UVA Retiree as Top Volunteer

Charlottesville’s Building Goodness Foundation honored Jody Lahendro, left, as its Volunteer of the Year. (Contributed photo)

The Charlottesville-based Building Goodness Foundation recently named Jody Lahendro its 2021 Skip Wootten Volunteer of the Year.

Lahendro, a historic preservation architect who retired from UVA Facilities Management in July after a 16-year tenure, has volunteered with the nonprofit construction organization for more than a decade. The foundation seeks to connect skilled volunteers from the design and construction industries with international and local opportunities to use their professional skills for a good cause.

Internationally, the foundation has built six clinics, nine schools and more than 1,130 houses for vulnerable communities. Locally, it serves more than 9,000 residents annually.

Lahendro, currently the volunteer architect leading a restoration of the St. John Rosenwald School, has volunteered for numerous foundation projects, including a trip to Haiti in 2013, where he worked on the St. Pierre Church. He has also devoted many volunteer hours to working at Camp Holiday Trails, where he also served on the board of directors and as the architect of their medical staff cabins.

“Being involved with BGF has given me this incredible connection to the building and construction professionals in town,” Lahendro said in December, at a small outdoor gathering where he received the award. “And these people all care so much about the community, and care about giving, and want to help. Being part of that really brings you closer to the community. Charlottesville is blessed to have this organization.”

“All of us at BGF are grateful to have the expertise and passion that Jody brings to every interaction,” Courtney Polk, the foundation’s executive director, said. “Jody embodies the spirit of service in all of his work in the community.”

UVA-Affiliated Poets Earn Half of State’s Annual Artists Fellowships for Poetry

English professors Debra Nystrom, left, and Kiki Petrosino are among six poets to receive 2021-22 poetry fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. (Left, contributed photo; right, photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

Two UVA English professors and an alumna are among six Virginia poets to receive 2021-22 poetry fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

The UVA awardees are Debra Nystrom and Kiki Petrosino, both professors in the Creative Writing Program, and 2002 MFA program alumna and Virginia Tech professor Erika Meitner. Fellowships, of $5,000 each, are awarded annually to artists residing in Virginia in recognition of creative excellence and to support their pursuit of artistic excellence.

Nystrom is the author of four poetry collections: “A Quarter Turn,” “Torn Sky,” “Bad River Road” and most recently, “Night Sky Frequencies, New and Selected Poems.” Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Yale Review and The American Poetry Review, and her work has been featured by Poetry Daily, The Writer’s Almanac and The Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry.

Nystrom has received the James Dickey Award from Five Points Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review’s Balch Poetry Award, the James Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah and The Virginia Prize for Poetry, and has been awarded fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and Virginia Humanities.

Petrosino is the author of four books of poetry and one memoir: “Fort Red Border,” “Hymn for the Black Terrific,” “Witch Wife,” “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia” and the forthcoming “Bright: A Memoir.” She is a 2001 UVA alumna and holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop.

Among her awards are the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas, the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature, a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and research fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council and Virginia Humanities. Petrosino directs �鶹�ƽ�� Creative Writing Program.

Meitner is the author of five books of poems, including “Ideal Cities,” which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; “Copia”; and “Holy Moly Carry Me,” which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Library of Virginia Award in poetry. Her sixth book of poems, “Useful Junk,” is forthcoming in April.

Meitner’s poems have been anthologized widely, and have appeared in publications including Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry, Orion, and The Believer. Other honors include fellowships from MacDowell, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Bethany Arts Community, The Betsy Writer’s Room and Blue Mountain Center. She was also the 2015 U.S.- U.K. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast, and the winner of the 2021 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Legal Theorists Recognized for Scholarship

UVA Law professors Rachel Bayefsky, left, and Frederick Schauer were recently honored for their scholarship in legal theory. (UVA Law photos)

The Association of American Law Schools in January recognized School of Law professors Frederick Schauer and Rachel Bayefsky by for their scholarship in legal theory.

Schauer won the Hart-Dworkin Award in Legal Philosophy, given annually to a scholar who has made significant and lasting contributions to the philosophical understanding of law, according to the AALS.

Schauer is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at UVA, and he is among the most recognizable names in the legal academy. His expertise has been demonstrated in hundreds of books, book chapters, articles, essays, classes and personal appearances. Schauer is a world-renowned expert in the areas of constitutional law, evidence, legal reasoning, freedom of speech, and jurisprudence and the philosophy of law.

In 2020, Schauer was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his distinguished contributions to academic thought. He received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2019. Among his other accolades, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been chair of the Section on Constitutional Law of the AALS and of the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association.

Bayefsky won “Best Untenured Article on Federal Jurisdiction” for her paper “Remedies and Respect: Rethinking the Role of Federal Judicial Relief,” published in the Georgetown Law Journal. She argues that “a remedy that takes effect by expressing respect for the party whose rights were violated is a constitutionally legitimate, normatively desirable, and practically feasible exercise of federal judicial authority.”

Bayefsky, who joined the faculty in the fall, writes about constitutional law, federal courts, civil procedure and legal theory. Her work addresses both the practical workings of legal institutions and underlying philosophical ideas such as dignity and equality.

She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She also taught at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, and worked as a litigator at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C.

Professor Awarded for Research on Interrupted Education

Chris Chang-Bacon is an assistant professor in the School of Education and Human Development. (Contributed photo)

Chris Chang-Bacon, an assistant professor in the School of Education and Human Development, has been named as this year’s recipient of the TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts.

The Alatis Prize, established by the International Research Foundation for English Language Education in 2014, recognizes an outstanding article or chapter in the field.

Chang-Bacon’s award-winning article is entitled “Generation Interrupted: Rethinking ‘Students with Interrupted Formal Education’ (SIFE) in the Wake of a Pandemic” (Educational Researcher, Vol. 50, Issue 3, pp. 187-196).

His research focuses on equity in multilingual and multicultural contexts. He studies how teachers interpret educational policy, particularly in ESL, dual-language and bilingual education contexts.

“This award is an incredible honor,” he said. “This has been such an extremely difficult year for teachers and students alike as we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope my article sheds light on some ways we might engage these challenges as well as reaffirming the incredible work that teachers and their students have done in this time of ‘interrupted formal education.’”