Three-quarters of deferred prosecution agreements in recent years did not require a corporate monitor, according to Brandon L. Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor, who has a forthcoming book, “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations.” Professor Garrett notes that when prosecutors reach a deferred or nonprosecution with a company, follow-up charges against executives are rare.
BookTraces is a new project to track down the human markings in 19th-century books that, in the era of digitization, will (at best) end up in deep storage throughout the nation's library system. "A book is more than a bag of words," the project's founder, University of Virginia's Andrew Stauffer, told me. "These books as objects have a lot to tell us."
As University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett shows in his soon-to-be-published book, Too Big to Jail, when corporations break the law, prosecutors tend to back off and make deals, intimidated by the companies’ huge resources.
Women in the minority party of the House of Representatives get more done, Craig Volden of the University of Virginia found. Volden and his team looked at every bill introduced in the House between 1973 and 2008. Bills introduced by women in the minority party generally went farther than bills offered by men.
The results will set the table for the general election, and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics predicts that Republicans will pick up four to eight Senate seats in the fall election.
In a 2011 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers from the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics found that female drivers wearing seat belts were 47% more likely to suffer a serious injury than male drivers in comparable crashes.
By Robert F. Graboyes, senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a professor of health economics at U.Va. and author of “The Economics of Medicaid: Assessing the Costs and Consequences.”Obamacare isn't innovative enough. And neither is the Republican alternative.
Editor's note: W. Mark Crowell, who helped lead tech transfer efforts at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State as well as the building of NCSU's Centennial Campus, is returning to Chapel Hill after a four-year tenure as the award winning executive director at U.Va. Innovation. The University of Virginia's H. Brevy Cannon interviewed Crowell about the development of the university as a tech transfer and entrepreneurial leader.
The U.S. Supreme Court for decades has tried to balance freedom of speech with freedom of religion. For example, the court ruled 20 years ago that religious speech deserves equal footing as other speech when it struck down a University of Virginia policy barring publication funding for student groups of faith. Now a divided court has found that a New York community didn’t violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause by inviting speakers to give sectarian invocations at town council meetings.
Bill Neukom’s gift to Dartmouth is one of multiple recent, large contributions for the pursuit of data science or use of big data. Most recently, the University of Virginia and the University of Rochester each received $10 million gifts to establish institutes studying the subject.
A Virginia government shutdown could mean a halt to Medicaid payments to hospitals and doctors. The Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and University of Virginia Health System hospitals treat the vast majority of Medicaid and uninsured residents in the state.
Barbara Spellman, U.Va. professor of law and editor-in-chief of "Perspectives on Psychological Science" is one of three guests who discuss the most common scientific shortcomings, proposed solutions and how to judge whether research is reliable.
TIME's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014" described Larry Sabato’s feed as "a veritable encyclopedia of political knowledge, context and trivia."
More than a dozen media organizations challenged the government’s ban on the use of drones by journalists Tuesday, saying the Federal Aviation Administration’s position violates First Amendment protections for news gathering. The organizations, including The Associated Press, filed a brief with the National Transportation Safety Board in support of aerial photographer Raphael Pirker. Pirker was fined $10,000 by the FAA for flying a small drone near the University of Virginia to make a commercial video in October 2011.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Mountain Empire Community College and Southwest Virginia Community College were each gifted about $4 million from the estate of Carol Phipps Buchanan, a Dickenson County woman.
The University of Virginia's Fralin Museum of Art has new leadership. The museum announced Tuesday that John Casteen, president emeritus of the university, will chair the museum's advisory board.
The Supreme Court upheld the practice of public prayer before Greece, N.Y., town board meetings, rejecting arguments that the invocations. "I think this is a green light to local majorities to impose their religious practices on any citizen who seeks to participate in civic affairs," said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor who represented the Greece residents who challenged the prayers. "It's not an absolutely blanket approval, but it goes awfully far."
(Audio and transcript) Law professor Douglas Laycock discusses a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed public prayer before public meetings in a case in which he represented the unsuccessful plaintiffs.
Vanessa Ochs introduced me to the discipline of “material culture” — stuff, essentially, and what it says about its owners and collectors. In an essay, “What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?,” Vanessa inventoried the home of a “past president of a Conservative synagogue in suburban New Jersey,” and tallied her various objets d’art and tchotchkes, from the framed Israeli art on her walls to the jars of borscht in her pantry. “In Judaism and, I imagine, most other faith traditions, the spiritual is material,” wrote Vanessa, a member of the U...