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Bill Gates at Batten Hour
Oct 30, 2024

Local Official Becomes Champion of Democracy: “I Did My Job”

As an elected official in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2020, Bill Gates saw first-hand the troubling impacts of election conspiracies, experiencing intense pressure to alter the county's elections process, even facing threats of violence. Since then, he's been an outspoken advocate for election workers and democracy; he spoke at Garrett Hall for this week's Batten Hour.  

xiao wang
Dec 22, 2023

Wang Wins AALS Award for Paper on Religious Freedom

Xiao Wang (MPP '09), professor at UVA's School of Law and an affiliated Batten faculty member, has won the 2024 Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the Association of American Law Schools for his paper on a recent trend in religious freedom litigation. 

Garrett Hall at Sunset

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