Asked whether Arpaio’s reliance on low-dollar donors has worked elsewhere, Larry Sabato, the political scientist who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said, "Even incumbents that are heavily favored, they’re not running a front-porch campaign," a reference to low-key races where the candidates stay close to home, forcing supporters to come to them.
No publicly available polling of the U.S. Senate race shows him winning. He is, instead, clinging to third or second place. "It reminds me of Dr. Johnson's dog, who walked on two hind feet," said Larry Sabato, the political scientist who directs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. "You don't criticize the way he walks, you just marvel that he can do it at all." With the state's senior senator, John McCain, gravely ill and away from Washington, D.C., voters are looking for a candidate who will ferociously defend their interests in the Senate for six years. "I have a hard time beli...
In mid-June, the Senate added a provision that eliminated the separate drawing for the 2018 general election. That means a candidate whose name starts with "E" would again be last. In previous elections, candidates listed first were those in the governor's party. Like Gov. Roy Cooper, Earls is a Democrat. "This was an obvious attempt to help the Republican candidate and hurt the Democratic candidate," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "There's no doubt about that."
“The most important work done in the country in public policy is done in the states by governors and state legislatures,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Virginia Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. Often, Sabato said, state officials work on matters that more directly affect people’s lives than members of Congress do.
Saikrishna Prakash, who co-authored the Yale Law Journal article with Devins, said that as the practice has grown in popularity, attorneys general around the country have an increasing awareness of their ability not to defend state laws. "In terms of opportunity, I would just say as more state attorneys general do this, it becomes an option," said Prakash, who is a law professor at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the university's Miller Center.
There were two parts to the judge’s decision, one that emphasized the separate legal status of the foundation, said George Rutherglen, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. The other part focuses on communications between the foundation and the university, he said. “With respect to communications between the foundation and the university, the court holds that those generate public records of the university and those public records are subject to the Freedom of Information Act,” he said.
Andrew W. Kahrl, a UVA associate professor of history and African American studies, has made race and real estate a focus of his research. Author of the recently released book “Free the Beaches,” he penned an essay that ran in The New York Times in May titled “The North’s Jim Crow.”
Chris Lu, deputy secretary of labor from 2014 to 2017 and now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, had a similar thought. "The Department of Education and Department of Labor have never been particularly well-liked agencies within the Republican Party," he said. "So the idea that you can take what I consider to be two important functions and basically merge them into one, in my mind is not only about efficiency, it's a precursor to starting to shrink both of those functions."
The future of Roe v. Wade has received the bulk of attention lately. What about same-sex marriage — could it be in peril? University of Virginia law Professor George Rutherglen says: "Not likely. This is mainly because the country has come to accept gay marriage. But wholly apart from that, many gay marriages have since taken place. What would happen to those marriages if Obergefell was overruled? They couldn't be invalidated without immediate legal consequences for vested rights to support, property and custody of children. So many gay marriages would have to be recognized, whatever happens t...
(Commentary) Opposition to legal recognition of same-sex marriage commands less than a majority even among those who vote or lean Republican. University of Virginia legal scholar Sai Prakash writes that in this area Justice Kennedy’s “opinions seem secure because his jurisprudence largely mirrors changes in society.”
It's a "working assumption" that any of Trump's nominees will favor overturning Roe vs. Wade, says Dick Howard, with the University of Virginia School of Law.
The group is visiting civil rights sites in various southern communities, encouraging people to learn more about the nation's history of racial divide. "Part of it is we just don't understand our history and we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. So we are actually making the pilgrimage in order for us to change the narrative and change our public spaces, which are right now dominated by confederate statues," says group member Frank Duke, a professor at the University of Virginia.
The forum Saturday included the screening of “An Outrage,” a short documentary about the history of lynching in the South and how communities and the decedents of those victims remember the horrific acts of violence. After the movie, the two filmmakers, Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren, participated in a panel discussion with Black Lives Matter activist and University of Virginia professor Jalane Schmidt and Siri Russell, an Albemarle County resident and descendant of a lynching victim whose murder is described in the movie.
Saturday morning people gathered in a solemn ceremony to dig soil from the area where John Henry James was lynched in 1898. The soil will be traveling in a pilgrimage to a lynching memorial in Alabama. The ceremony was quiet, but more than a century ago, John Henry James was likely screaming out his last cries for help. Jalane Schmidt, a professor at the University of Virginia, did the research on James' story.
(Commentary) A new report by the American Enterprise Institute, “Black Men Making It in America,” uses Census data to show that African-American men are succeeding in the United States. Written by University of Virginia sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox, director of research at the Institute for Family Studies Wendy Wang and Columbia University social policy professor Maurice Russel, the report reveals that more than one-in-two black males–57 percent–now belong to the country’s middle or upper class. There is still clearly work to be done, but this cannot be described as anything other th...
VCU has reached agreement with Inova Health Systems to hire high-level research faculty who would work both for the university and the Genomics & Bioinformatics Research Institute soon under construction – with $20 million in state support – at the Inova Center for Personalized Health in Fairfax County. The Inova genomics institute is a collaboration among the Northern Virginia health system, the University of Virginia and George Mason University – two higher education institutions that also have submitted proposals to recruit joint faculty for research at the new facility.
Virginia agriculture and its related industries generated $70 billion in total output in 2015, with $36.2 billion in value added to the state’s economy — or about 7.5 percent of Virginia gross domestic product, according to a study last year by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
In many cases, the decision to take or prescribe a particular medication is a matter of weighing the benefits versus the side effects. The effort to minimize or eliminate such unwanted effects has thus been the subject of much research. In an effort to pave the way to side effect-free drugs, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have now developed a technique to precisely target molecules within cells.
Local colleges and universities have growing programs that should help Social SafeGuard and other cybersecurity outfits throughout the region find workers. In March, University of Virginia’s Cyber Defense Team upset the defending national champions from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — yes, that UMBC — to win the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
These 10 law schools are the most competitive with acceptance rates below 25 percent. University of Virginia – received 5,049 applications for 923 spots for an 18.3 percent acceptance rate.