These days, it’s a good idea to choose a law school based on employment. Where can you get a job? Who’s hiring? What schools are actually placing students into jobs? If big law is your route, The National Law Journal’s top 50 “go-to” law schools is the ranking for you. Cornell Law School was sixth with 52.88 percent of graduates taking associate positions. Northwestern University School of Law (49.48 percent), Duke Law School (48.84 percent), University of Virginia School of Law (46.7 percent), and Stanford Law School (45.45 percent) closed out the top 10.
The question of whether Virginia’s second-ranked men’s basketball team is tedious to watch has gotten plenty of attention in recent days. Is defense-first dull? Does a slow pace connote sluggishness? Is this basketball boring? Well, Virginia President Teresa Sullivan recently gave her answer.
Just as Thomas Jefferson did nearly 200 years ago, restoration experts for the University of Virginia's Rotunda have turned to history to bring this iconic building into the 21st Century.
(By Robert Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia) As if on cue, teacher preparation organizations, college and university education schools, and teachers unions are protesting proposed federal regulations for assessing the quality and impact of teacher preparation programs. Over the past month, my email inbox has been filled with a stream of increasingly dire pleas to join the chorus. Delayed for more than a year by a firestorm of protest, the latest round of proposed regulations is subject to the same criticisms as the previous one. The primary compla...
Researcher Zhen Yan, Ph.D., at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has magnified a benefit of exercise in mice to provide a "profound" protection from diabetic cardiomyopathy, a potentially deadly heart condition that affects many people with diabetes. The discovery demonstrates the power of exercise to prevent chronic health conditions and suggests that one day some benefits of exercise may come in a pill or bottle.
A new study has revealed that taste cells regenerate, or turn over, about every 10 days, so that is why its possible to regain the lost sense of taste within days. According to University of Virginia neuroscientist, David Hill, olfactory receptor neurons are constantly dying and being replaced, which can give researchers new understanding of how these neurons are able to regenerate and what they learn from the taste system could be applied broadly to our understanding of neurology.
The Justice Department says that a corporation is no scapegoat. The Department’s first priority is to prosecute culpable individuals and not artificial entities. But an article just out — Corporate Criminal as Scapegoat — finds that far more often than not, when the largest corporations settle federal criminal cases, no individuals are charged. The article was written by University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett. “High profile failures to prosecute executives in the wake of the global financial crisis have only made the problem more urgent,&rd...
Last November, this blog took a look at one of the biggest cases working its way through the U.S. Tax Court today—a battle between the Internal Revenue Service and Amazon over the online retail giant’s European cost sharing arrangement. The case could, if decided against Amazon, cost the company as much as $1.5 billion.On Dec. 18, an expert witness for the IRS, University of Virginia Professor Ronald Wilcox, used the Inc. interview—as well as a 1997 Nightly Business Review video and a 2004 interview Bezos with Businessweek (now Bloomberg Business)—to...
Samantha Elauf didn't look like a typical Abercrombie & Fitch sales associate, or "model," when she applied in 2008 for a job in Tulsa, Okla. That much was clear from the retailer's "look policy." But whether the preppy clothier's refusal to hire the 17-year-old girl was due to her Muslim religion or simply because she wore a blackhijab, or head scarf, during the interview is still being fought out seven years later. On Wednesday, it will be up to the Supreme Court to decide. "Congress did this very deliberately," says Douglas Laycock, a University...
The federal government took control of Florida resident Tony Henderson's personal gun collection more than eight years ago. On Tuesday, thanks to a group of law students, the Supreme Court will finally consider whether Henderson deserves some compensation for that property. Then, a group of students from the University of Virginia School of Law found his case and offered to take it up for him. "This is an issue, frankly, I was surprised that it hadn't been addressed before the Supreme Court," third-year law student Anna McDanal told CBS News. For one thing, multiple circuit c...
Just as the war metaphor commits the sin of too many unnecessary implications, it also forgets a very important one. As University of Virginia ethicist James Childress writes, “In debating social policy through the language of war, we often forget the moral reality of war.” This forgetfulness is cruel absentmindedness. To proclaim that a politician is waging war on whatever hot topic of the day is to forget the actual brutality of war and its moral violations. It is unfair to our soldiers and damaging to our souls to equate the dangers of war with the decision of whether to sa...
The director of the University of Virginia’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic is scheduled to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday about how newly convicted felons should dispose of their firearms. Henderson v. United States is the case of Tony Henderson, who was convicted of distributing marijuana and other drug offenses in 2007 in Florida. He forfeited his 19 firearms to the FBI upon arrest. The firearms were not connected to the drug dealing, according to records.As felons can’t own firearms, Henderson wanted the right to sell his guns to an independent buyer and...
The University of Virginia School of Law is experiencing a shrinking enrollment, a common trend being seen across the country. The university welcomed 307 new law students this year, down from last year's 330. The dean, Paul G. Mahoney, says UVA School of Law intends to reach an entering class of 300 students.
As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, Dr. Jaronda Miller of the UVa Women's Center joins CBS 19's Madeline Curott to discuss a new project that was started to honor Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, but has quickly evolved into a year-long endeavor.
The University of Virginia ranks No. 2 in the college basketball polls. It comes in third in a ranking of greater import. The Peace Corps reports that U.Va. is tied in third place with George Washington University for producing the most volunteers for the agency among medium-sized schools. The news compliments the individuals making the commitments as well as the university that nurtured them. The numbers may not be great — 36 U.Va. alums are serving in the Peace Corps — but the participants belong to the favored few. Peace Corps service is as impressive as an internship in a globa...
Dr. Sarah Kucenas and Dr. Stephen Cushman are among 13 Virginia educators named as recipients of the 29th annual Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA) for excellence in teaching, research, and public service.
(By Marc J. Selverstone, associate professor and chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center) The Oscars will be handed out tonight, honoring the year’s greatest achievements in film. “Selma,” which focuses on the 1965 campaign to secure voting rights for black Americans, will not be among the biggest winners — even though it is up for Best Picture — as the movie garnered fewer nominations than expected. At fault, according to some observers, was its depiction of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the ensuing contr...
(By Aniko Bodroghkozy, a professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia) “Selma" ignited controversy over whether its portrayal of the 1965 voting rights campaign misrepresents history. With the 50th anniversary of the landmark civil rights era struggle just weeks away, a closer look at the Hollywood film portrayal of this transformative moment reveals what media representations then and now got right, what they got wrong — and why it matters.
(By Brandon L. Garrett ,a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law) Is declaring a "time out" to the death penalty in Pennsylvania an abuse of the governor's power "ignoring duly enacted law," as prosecutors have claimed, or is it a much needed opportunity to step back?
The second chapter is by Steven A. Camarota, the Director of Research for the Center for Immigration Studies, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in public-policy analysis, and is a frequent commentator on these issues in major U.S. media. His main point in the chapter, “Immigration’s impact on public coffers in the United States” is that insofar as a society does not make the effort to select immigrants with high education, the costs associated with poorly-educated immigrants, for all levels of government, will tend to be high.