These are called “deferred prosecution” agreements, meaning that if the banks don’t behave, the government can come back at them. These agreements are standard, and if you consult the data compiled by the University of Virginia’s Brandon Garrett (author of the well-reviewed “Too Big to Jail”) you will notice the initials DP next to many cases involving errant financial firms. In other words, nobody was convicted of a crime.
Morgan Brian was named the U.S Young Female Athlete of 2014 on Wednesday. As a senior at the University of Virginia, the talented midfielder has notched 37 goals and 34 assists in the 75 games she’s appeared in thus far. She has been an integral part of the burgeoning renaissance of the Cavaliers’ soccer program.
(By Rachel Harmon, a former prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice. She teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and civil rights at the University of Virginia School of Law.)Proving 'willfulness' is often the biggest obstacle to federal prosecution. If an officer genuinely believed the force he used was necessary, he is not guilty of a federal crime, even if he was wrong.
UVA Health System announced Friday morning that Chris Ghaemmaghami is taking over the position. He’s been serving as interim since February.
The divorce rate in America is rising. Do you think that statement is true? If you do, you’re not alone. As it happens, the divorce rate isn’t rising. This dynamic plays out in the popular press, where much of the news about marriage and divorce is derived from the National Marriage Project, founded at Rutgers University in 1997 and now based at the University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia student’s harrowing description of a gang rape at a fraternity, detailed in a recent Rolling Stone article, began to unravel Friday as interviews revealed doubts about significant elements of the account. The fraternity issued a statement rebutting the story, and Rolling Stone apologized for a lapse in judgment and backed away from its article on the case.
Many people in the University of Virginia community remain outraged about the Rolling Stone account of a gang rape at a campus fraternity house that unraveled into a journalistic debacle Friday.But Tommy Reid, the president of U-Va.’s Inter-Fraternity Council, said Saturday that he had other concerns. Reid said he wants to keep attention locked onto efforts to reform the Greek system and the university as a whole to stop sexual violence.
Journalists are paid to be skeptical and to distinguish facts from assertions: Don’t get too close to your sources and check what they tell you.Rolling Stone magazine, it appears, ignored both principles in its explosive story, “A Rape on Campus.”The 9,000-word article about Jackie, a University of Virginia freshman who alleged a frat-house gang rape, was apparently fraught from the beginning with gaps in basic reporting. The story’s writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, as well as a phalanx of editors, fact-checkers and lawyers who massaged the piece before publication, accept...
The lighting of the lawn began as a way to get the community back together after 9-11. It brings together families, students and UVa faculty. They drink hot chocolate and cider and listen to acapella holiday music sung by choirs. This year there are more reasons than ever to come together.
University of Virginia faculty will seek to ban fraternities from campus for at least the rest of the academic year as investigators sort through a report of an alleged gang rape two years ago.
Charlottesville’s youth leaders are talking, and Charlottesville’s Youth Council found City Council listening. The group also backs forming a responsibility campaign, similar to the University of Virginia’s “Hoos Got Your Back,” initiative, which encourages people to help prevent sexual assault.
Not all U.S. Supreme Court law clerks head to law firms with long-established practices at the high court after a year with their justices. McGuireWoods announced Thursday it has hired three former Supreme Court law clerks among 33 new associates at the firm. All three are University of Virginia School of Law graduates. Coincidentally, the Virginia law school recently announced that four of its graduates will clerk for the high court next term, tying a five-year-old record for the school. Since 2005, University of Virginia has come in fourth in placing graduates in Supreme Court clerkships.
In May, the journal Science published a study, led by a young University of Virginia psychologist, Thomas Talhelm, that ascribed these different orientations to the social worlds created by wheat farming and rice farming. The authors of the study in Science argue that over thousands of years, rice- and wheat-growing societies developed distinctive cultures: “You do not need to farm rice yourself to inherit rice culture.”
To ensure your business concept meets people’s needs, testing is essential. Treat your idea like a hypothesis, says Jeanne M. Liedtka, a professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. She says that too many times managers try to confirm their ideas and not disprove them, as a scientist might.
As Rachel A. Harmon, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a former prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division explains, civil rights violations by police are exceptionally hard to prove. “There is an extra burden in federal civil rights cases because the statute requires that the defendant acted ‘willfully,’ ” Harmon said. “It is not enough to prove that he used too much force. You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did so willfully.”
Good design can play a central role in addressing today's complex health challenges. In Charlottesville, Virginia, VMDO Architects collaborated with Dr. Matthew Trowbridge, assistant professor at the University of Virginia Medical School, to study how to reduce incidence rates of childhood obesity through design. The team leveraged this research at the new Buckingham County Primary and Elementary School in Dillwyn, VA, with a goal of supporting healthy eating and physical activity through educational design strategies.
Two weeks after Rolling Stone published an exposé about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, media critics are increasingly questioning the reporter’s methods and the accuracy of the article. Students at the University of Virginia, though, are drawing a distinction between criticizing the article’s presentation and questioning its veracity.
A scandal at the University of Virginia raises new concerns about the role of Greek life in college sexual assaults.
Following a harrowing Rolling Stone story on the gang rape of a University of Virginia student, several state lawmakers are proposing new legislation that would require university officials to notify the police when they receive a report of sexual violence against students -- or potentially face prosecution themselves.
Several outlets are now calling into question the credibility of the Rolling Stone magazine article centered on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Some are skeptical, but others defend the article's integrity.