James Dwyer

W. Taylor Reveley III Research Professor and Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law

Contact: Marshall Wythe School of Law, Room 243, [[jgdwye]], 757-221-2685
Interests: Family Law; Children and the Law; Trusts & Estates; International Law; Adoption Law; Education Law; Philosophy of Law; Constitutional Law--14th Amendment; Constitutional Law--1st Amendment (Religion)

Representative Professional Activities and Achievements

Joined the faculty in 2000 after teaching law at the Chicago-Kent and University of Wyoming law schools. Practiced law with Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan; and Coudert Brothers; both in Washington, D.C., and worked in New York State Family Court as Law Guardian. Teaches family law, youth law, trusts and estates, and law and social justice. Selected for the Class of 2010 Professorship and three times for the Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence. Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Fall 2019. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025 in recognition of his scholarship on children's rights.