The most provocative of the five research papers in this March edition of RIJ’s Research Roundup has to be Michael Doran’s “The Great American Retirement Fraud.” A professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, Doran faults US tax policy for subsidizing what, in his opinion, is a deceptively regressive defined contribution system of thrift.
Peter Belmi, a professor at UVA’s graduate business school, begins his recently published article with the story of a woman who sued Walmart, because she felt her boss was sexist. “Her supervisor abused her and several other women in her department on a daily basis and called women ‘good for nothing,'” he recalls. But a federal judge ruled against her, because he argued the guy was a jerk to men as well.
The festival’s first in-person event in three years was held at the University of Virginia Bookstore. Dozens of people — all in masks — were on hand to hear from three authors who have researched the Civil War era.
The University of Virginia has been ranked as the top college or university in Virginia for best value. SmartAsset released its eighth annual Best Value Colleges Study, which compares institutions by using five metrics, including scholarships, starting salary, tuition, living costs and retention rate. According to a release, this is the third year in a row that UVA has come in in the top spot.
A retired Delaware Supreme Court justice who made waves as both the youngest person appointed to the state’s highest court and the longest-serving justice died on Tuesday. He was 75. Justice Randy Holland grew up in Milford and graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a master of laws in the judicial process from the University of Virginia Law School.
(By alumnus Mike Schoultz) Do you feel that traveling enhances your continuous learning and curiosity? Perhaps visiting Charlottesville Virginia and Thomas Jefferson will help you in this answer. Let me elaborate.
Most Americans associate the name James Patterson with the world’s bestselling mystery and thriller author. In Marion, the name calls to mind an equally prolific figure who has dedicated more than six decades to the health and well-being of his community. Affectionately known as “the Good Doctor,” [UVA school of Medicine alumnus] Dr. James E. Patterson celebrated his 90th birthday March 8 with the staff of the Mel Leaman Free Clinic, where he serves as medical director and still sees patients one day a week.
The fourth-year VCU School of Medicine students [both UVA alumni] want to complete their residency programs in the same city.
A pair of professors at the University of Virginia believe the United States should switch to permanent standard time, not permanent Daylight Saving Time. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to making Daylight Saving Time year-round by unanimous consent. It now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration.
According to the CDC, older, unvaccinated adults are the most likely to suffer serious complications from COVID-19—so if you're over 60, make sure to stay up to date on your vaccinations and boosters. "The huge risk factor is age," says William Petri, immunologist at the University of Virginia. "If you're under 45, your chances of dying are almost nonexistent, and then it increases exponentially."
Dr. Bill Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said in an interview that two things may mean we’re not out of the woods just yet — new variants arising and vaccine or natural infection acquired immunity being short-lived. “The best estimates are that immunity against reinfection could be as short as three months or as long as five to six years, and the best bet is there’s probably about a year and a half or so,” he said. “So if that’s true, that’s really good news, because then that means that that would probably take us into the fall or even the winter with ...
According to University of Virginia history professor Paul Barolsky, in his journal article “Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and David” (2004), Italy had a longstanding tradition of portraying the biblical figure of David as a protector of both society and culture. Aiming to depict him as a guardian, Michelangelo rendered David taller, more handsome, and more muscular than Bible passages suggested.
“Money feeling strange in 2021 is based on a decade of money slowly feeling strange for lots and lots of different people throughout the world,” said Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who focuses on money. “We’re at a stage where the government and financial institutions are revealed to be less dependable than we ever imagined they would be, so why not YOLO?”
Despite intense division, Americans have always found a way to come together in times of crisis. And as bad as things are now, they are are nowhere near as bad as they were in the years leading up to the civil war, said Justene Hill Edwards, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia.
As University of Virginia Professor of Law and Medicine Richard Bonnie writes, the insanity defense hinges on “whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense.” Was the defendant able to “appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct” or “conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.” These criteria constitute the “‘cognitive’ and ‘volitional’ prongs of the defense,” respectively. The former implicates one’s rationality, the latter one’s willful control. Personality disorders usually don’t conduce to a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity ve...
The financial combat between Russia and the U.S.-led coalition is a throwback to past government debt wrangles, according to Mitu Gulati, a sovereign debt specialist at the University of Virginia law school. In the 1800s, major governments often sold bonds to finance wars — and then balked at paying investors from enemy lands. “This is a familiar situation, even if in the modern world it’s unusual,” Gulati said. “This is what used to happen all the time.”
Reuters reviewed 25 cases in which Jackson issued substantive rulings as a U.S. district court judge in Washington from 2013 to 2021 involving plaintiffs who made claims of racial discrimination, most involving the workplace. She ruled in favor of plaintiffs in only three of the cases. Of the 25 cases, 22 were pursued by Black plaintiffs. Jackson ruled against 19 of the Black plaintiffs. "Plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases lose a lot, so this strikes me as consistent with the pattern I would expect because they are notoriously hard to win," said employment law expert Kim Forde-Mazru...
(Commentary by Ben Wildavsky, visiting scholar at the School of Education and Human Development) When Mark Granovetter was a Ph.D. student in the late 1960s, studying how white-collar men find new jobs, he zeroed in on social networks. When he asked interview subjects whether the person who told them about their current job was a friend, he repeatedly ran into the same answer. “Over and over again, they would correct me and say ‘No, no, he’s only an acquaintance,’” says Dr. Granovetter, now a professor of sociology at Stanford.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at the Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball) With inflation at a roughly 40-year high, the electorate appears to be focusing on high prices. A Wall Street Journal poll released late last week showed that about half of voters named inflation and the economy as the top issue they want the federal government to address, far more than any other issue. More than 6 in 10 respondents (63%) disapproved of President Biden’s handling of rising costs, and respondents gave Republicans a 17-point edge when asked which party was b...
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at the Miller Center) From the moment first lady Jill Biden welcomed Ukraine’s Ambassador Oksana Markarova to the 2022 State of the Union address, President Biden’s spouse has been following in the footsteps of her predecessors’ wartime contributions to our nation. Standing firm with her husband against the Russian invasion, another first lady, Ukraine’s Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska, has earned admiration around the world for her heart-wrenching descriptions of the terror inflicted on her country,...