Jim Ryan joined the UVA Law School faculty in 1998 after completing a two-year public interest fellowship in Newark, N.J. He teaches law and education, constitutional law, land use law, local government law and is an instructor in the Supreme Court litigation clinic. He writes primarily about law and educational opportunity but has also authored or co-authored articles on constitutional law and theory. He is the author of "Five Miles Away, A World Apart," which was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Ryan served as academic associate dean from 2005-09. In 2009, he helped found and no...