Regent Law News

  Regent University School of Law will host the 20 th  Annual Leroy R. Hassell Sr. National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition in a virtual format on October 8-10, 2020. This annual competition is named in honor of the late former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Leroy R. Hassell. During his distinguished career, the former chief justice championed constitutional rights and fought for justice for the Commonwealth’s citizens. He was a leader in equality, becoming the first African American Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court. He also served as a member of the Regent University School of Law Board of Visitors and as Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence. “Chief Justice Hassell was a close friend of Regent University School of Law,” said Mark Martin, dean of Regent Law and former chief justice of North Carolina. “A model of professionalism and excellence, Chief Justice Hassell regularly exhorted students to work hard, to do justice, and have faith to ach...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton, J.D., addressed Regent University law students about the newly released book, The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law. Sutton, who serves as a senior lecturing fellow with Regent University School of Law, co-edited the book with Edward Whelan, president of the Ethics & Public Policy Center. Both men are distinguished former law clerks to the late Justice Scalia. The book is a collection of opinions, lectures, and articles by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Sutton discussed the transformative way Scalia interpreted law — an approach that accepts the Constitution as having no less or more meaning than what it meant to those who penned and signed it. “He was the foremost proponent of textualism and originalism in the last 100 years,” explained Sutton. “A central point of his career was to recover an approach to interpretation that the justices had all used for the first 150 years...