CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW/UVA LAWYER) – Fifty years ago this past September, first-year students ushered in a new era, becoming the first class that would begin and end their three years at UVA Law at the school’s new $5.8 million campus on North Grounds. A 50th anniversary story called “The Edifice Complex” in UVA Lawyer reads that “in those early days, once they got past the mud and construction debris piled at the entrance, the aspiring lawyers entered a modernist rectilinear block that offered little in the way of amenities or a sense of shared history with the storied university founded by Thomas Jefferson” 1977 alum Pamela Clark said in those days, it wasn’t even utilitarian — it was just an ugly, bad building”. UVA Lawyer tells a story, linked here, how that “ugly, bad building” would, in time, become a cherished home to generations of UVA Law graduates, just as its predecessors had been to those lawyers who had come before.