A new theory about how justices rule in cases before the Supreme Court is getting a lot of attention – and sparking some controversy. It’s an idea called “personal precedents,” and it was coined in a recent academic article by University of Virginia Law School professor Richard M. Re. According to Re, “personal precedent is a judge’s presumptive adherence to her own previously expressed views of the law.”
A new study from the UVA School of Law finds that men talk more than women in law classes. The study started nine years ago when a group of UVA law students told their professors they felt like men were speaking more than the women in class.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics will host the ambassador of Austria to the United States on Friday. According to a release, Martin Weiss will speak as part of the Ambassador Series. He will be the first current ambassador to speak on Grounds following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Derek Baxter says that Thomas Jefferson has long been his hero, and he has the proof: He began visiting the Founding Father’s home, Monticello, as a child; starred as Jefferson in a fourth-grade play; took his prom date to the Jefferson Memorial; and majored in history at the Jefferson-founded University of Virginia. So it makes sense that when Baxter was in the throes of a midlife crisis – dissatisfied with his predictable job as an attorney for a government agency, exhausted by the demands of parenting two young children – he looked to his idol for direction.
Dianne Marsh, director of content security for Netflix, and Phil Bourne, dean of UVA’s School of Data Science, delivered keynote addresses Tuesday during the second day of Michigan Technological University’s computing showcase. Bourne pointed to the way the mapping of the human genome had shaped biomedicine, spawning new fields and a $600 billion industry.
Thirty years ago, people were generally fine with whatever they ordered off of the television arriving in five to seven business days, because it was the status quo. Now, thanks to Amazon, even two days can feel like an eternity. David Mick, a UVA professor of commerce, describes the situation as the “er” phenomenon, where people are led to believe that there is always something better ahead. “If you think about packaging or advertising, products across the spectrum are constantly positioning themselves as softer, sweeter, easier, smoother, quieter, longer-lasting, or just the big word, better...
(Podcast) President Harry Truman’s address to Congress, and the world, in March 1947 is seen by some historians as marking the start of the Cold War. But the speech and the policy it set out were by no means inevitable; both were shaped as much by misunderstandings and exaggerated fears as they were conflicting ideologies and the actions of the former World War II allies. Contributors include Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius Professor of History Emeritus at UVA.
While Russia still has a 30-day grace period to correct its bond payments, the country will “almost surely” default, says Mitu Gulati, a law professor specializing in sovereign debt at the University of Virginia.
The contracts governing Russia’s bonds require in most cases payment in euros or dollars with few and narrow exceptions known as an alternative payments clause. Russia contends that it has met those exceptions, but sovereign debt experts have argued otherwise. “It is not clear to me, even if the clause is there, that Russia would be entitled to use it,” said G. Mitu Gulati, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an expert on sovereign debt restructurings and contracts, in an email. “That’s a debatable question. I’d argue that they are not. But this would be a question for ...
Analysts point out that previous examples of financial warfare have mostly related to blocking money for terrorism or deployed in specific cases such as Iran’s nuclear program. Targeting a country of Russia’s size and power is unprecedented, and for better or worse it could become a blueprint for the future, argues Mitu Gulati, a financial law professor at the University of Virginia. “If you change the rules for Russia, you’re changing the rules for the whole world,” he says. “Once these rules change, they change international finance forever.”
“There’s no guarantee that every emergent variant is going to be the basis for the next variant,” warned Dr. Michael Nelson, an immunologist at UVA’s School of Medicine.
Jackson might have less need for downtime than some previous new justices since she already lives in the Washington area, said Barbara Perry, a presidential and Supreme Court scholar at UVA’s Miller Center. Even so, the coming months will give her time to “get her sea legs” and “figure out her chambers and just get the folkways of the court down,” Perry said.
Garland’s nomination is also significant in that the GOP-controlled Senate refused hearings as there was a forthcoming election – which was a new reasoning. Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, said the reasoning given by Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell isn’t outlined in the Constitution and that about six presidents were able to successfully have nominees confirmed during lame-duck periods.
(Commentary by Kyle Kodik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) We, like many others, were surprised by news that broke Friday evening: Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and a former governor of Alaska, is running to replace the late Rep. Don Young in the U.S. House.
(Commentary by law professors Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger) Just as the Supreme Court is poised to achieve many of the stated aims of the conservative legal movement, including overturning Roe v. Wade and striking down affirmative action, leading conservative thinkers are hotly debating alternative approaches to interpreting the Constitution.
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Wednesday that USA Swimming member coaches Ron Aitken and Todd DeSorbo [of UVA] have been named Developmental Coach of the Year and College Coach of the Year, respectively, for 2021.
For the first time since 2019, Heritage Theatre Festival will return to live performance this summer with a new name that aligns with its home at the University of Virginia and a new vision to broaden the scope and reach of Virginia’s longest-running professional summer theater company.
A popular theater festival is making a comeback with a new name. The Heritage Theatre Festival will be returning for the first since 2019 with live performances this summer. According to a release, the new name, the Virginia Theatre Festival, aligns with the festival’s home at the University of Virginia and a new vision to broaden the scope and reach of the longest-running professional summer theater company in the commonwealth.
Rabih Alameddine’s “The Wrong End of the Telescope,” a novel written in the second person about a transgender doctor named Mina who works in a refugee camp for Syrians, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Almeddine is currently te Kapnick Writer-in-Residence at UVA.
UVA Health is celebrating Access Week, which is a week to recognize the first person most people interact with when scheduling appointments or coming in to the hospital. The Access Team members work as liaisons between patients and clinical staff, scheduling appointments, checking patients in, processing medical information, and answering patient questions.