The 1876 contest featured a showdown between two governors: Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, and Democrat Samuel Tilden, of New York. In a smaller America, it took only 185 electoral votes to win (rather than the 270 of today). After the counting was done, Tilden had 184 electoral votes, and Hayes had 166. But the counts in three states were disputed, and both parties claimed victory. Strangely enough, according to UVA historian Michael Holt, the sainted U.S. Constitution was mum on how to proceed. What happened next was a lot of figuring it out on the fly. This would all be arcane his...
After leaving office as governor in 1975, Reagan developed “a radio presence in a way that really puts him in the public consciousness as a conservative voice in America,” says Russell Riley, co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program. By the time Reagan arrived at the RNC on August 16, 1976, he was a nationally known conservative leader who’d appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” And he trailed the sitting president by fewer than 100 delegates.
Saikrishna Prakash, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, and Amanda Rauh-Bieri, who clerked for Barrett on the 7th Circuit, will also testify along with Laura Wolk, who was a student of Barrett's at Notre Dame Law School.
Expected to be supportive of Barrett is UVA School of Law Professor Saikrishna Prakash, who clerked for Laurence Silberman, the same D.C. Circuit judge Barrett clerked for (Prakash is also a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas).
After debating her nomination, the committee is set to hear from two panels. The second panel will include Democratic and Republican witnesses who are likely to speak on Barrett’s character or in opposition to her confirmation, including Professor Saikrishna Prakash of the UVA School of Law, one of Barrett’s professional colleagues.
UVA law professors Joshua Fischman and Kevin Cope analyzed more than 1,700 cases that the 7th Circuit has heard since Barrett joined the court in 2017, including 378 where Barrett cast a vote, and according to their analysis, Barrett is part of a cluster of conservative judges at the rightmost edge of the 7th Circuit.
Josh Bowers, a professor at the UVA School of Law and author of the paper, suggests introducing a system he describes as “licensing” which would effectively allow a targeted group of repeat offenders to avoid punishment in the hope that other forms of rehabilitation or counselling will work better. “Just as drug prescriptions for dependent individuals keep them relatively healthy and socially integrated, crime licenses for “persistent misdemeanants” have potential to eliminate barriers to offender reentry,” he wrote.
Accomplishing a feat that had been a pipe dream for decades scientists including UVA associate professor Dr. Owen Pornillos have recreated in a test tube the first steps of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Doing so has provided up-close access to the virus – which is otherwise obstructed from view deep within the cell – and enabled identification of essential components that HIV needs to replicate within its human host.
During the era of Jim Crow, a system of local and state laws that enforced racial segregation in the United States, the Colbrook Motel was the lone Chesterfield business highlighted in “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a national reference guide that listed Black-friendly establishments. Presently, roughly 30 scholars in 20 states are working with the University of Virginia to build an online database documenting these sites and their historical importance.
(Editorial) When he was running for governor, Ralph Northam proposed turning the University of Virginia’s College at Wise into a research university, with the idea of creating a new economic engine in the coalfields. We haven’t heard anything about that since, but here’s an opportunity to make that happen.
Students at the UVA School of Law have a unique opportunity to help change the lives of others in the future. In June, UVA Law professor Andrew Block reached out to state government agencies to see if students could get involved. The Virginia Parole Board took him up on the offer.
Virginia State University announced Wednesday the establishment of Virginia's – and possibly the nation's – first program dedicated to the development of Black political and governmental leadership. The John Mercer Langston Institute for African-American Political Leadership is modeled after the Sorensen Institute at the University of Virginia and the Minority Political Leadership Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The UVA Medical Center hosted a webinar on climate change in the commonwealth and the associated health implications and challenges on Wednesday. The panel of experts explored how climate change is impacting the state's weather, economy and living conditions.
There are numerous factors that begin to explain the discrepancy: the number of tests the schools have administered, the spread of the virus in the community before the students arrived and, of course, the behavior of its students. Data from the schools and the Virginia Department of Health suggest that the colleges with low numbers of cases may not be doing as well as you’d think. And at the same time, the schools with high numbers may not be doing as poorly as you’d think.
(Co-written by Luca Cian, marketing professor in the Darden School of Business) When do consumers trust the word of a machine, and when do they resist it? Our research suggests that the key factor is whether consumers are focused on the functional and practical aspects of a product (its utilitarian value) or focused on the experiential and sensory aspects of a product (its hedonic value).
(Commentary by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of geriatric medicine) Deaths from dementia during the summer of 2020 are nearly 20% higher than the number of dementia-related deaths during that time in previous years, and experts don’t yet know why. An estimated 61,000 people have died from dementia, which is 11,000 more than usual within that period.
UVA School of Medicine researcher Zhen Yan has studied exercise’s role in curbing the effects of COVID-19 and said more effort needs to be made to increase activity during childhood. “If we want to protect our kids from deadly COVID-19, we must increase their physical activity and get them healthier,” Yan said. “Too many kids already have preexisting conditions such as obesity.”
(Commentary by William I. Hitchcock, William Corcoran Professor of History) The 1950s are often portrayed as a placid decade of peace, prosperity and “Happy Days.” You might even think that presidential elections were courtly affairs back then. Think again.
(Subscription required) The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers commemorates the roughly 5,000 slaves who built UVA and toiled on its campus here until their liberation at the end of the Civil War. Such a troubling theme could easily have been turned into political poster art. Instead it has given us something rare these days, a memorial worthy of the name, one that stands boldly on the campus to speak movingly of tragedy, suffering, and the dignity of the human spirit.
In 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy brought presidential politics into the television era when they agreed to a series of joint appearances that were simulcast across the three major broadcast networks: ABC, CBS and NBC. “In 1960 over 20 states were considered real battlegrounds, as opposed to about half that today,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.