Melissa Levy

Issuing the guidance document over the summer, and while relevant civil rights matters are unresolved in the courts, reveals that those who seek to end academic freedom as we know it are in a hurry.

GOLDBLATT, LEVY, WILLIAMS: What does it mean for U.Va. to follow the advice of legal counsel?

By Melissa Levy , Bruce Williams and Laura Goldblatt | August 16, 2025

Our University does not have legal counsel independent from the state government nor, in this case, from the Trump administration.

As a symbol of a nation state, the Israeli flag is a political rather than religious or ethnic symbol.

GOLDBLATT, LEVY, MILOV: Israeli flag vandalism is political, not antisemitic

By Melissa Levy , Sarah Milov and Laura Goldblatt | September 16, 2024

Vandalism is not a protected form of political protest, but the University’s response erroneously classifies a political act as a statement of ethnic enmity.

Melissa Levy

GOLDBLATT, LEVY, WILLIAMS: What does it mean for U.Va. to follow the advice of legal counsel?

GOLDBLATT, LEVY, MILOV: Israeli flag vandalism is political, not antisemitic

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