"From today's perspective, there was carnage on the road; the accident rate was a hundred times higher than it is now per driver," says Kenneth Abraham, a University of Virginia insurance law professor. "Auto insurance wasn't mandatory back then, so there wasn't massive demand, even among the people who owned vehicles."
That was a precedent that Obama's lawyers leaned on in 2011 as they made their determination on the Defense of Marriage Act. The decision prompted a debate outside the White House as well. Neal Devins and Saikrishna Prakash, law professors at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia respectively, wrote in The Columbia Law Review that given his belief that the law was unconstitutional, Obama "should neither enforce nor defend it."
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the seven most imperiled Senate seats in the country – Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia – are all held by Democrats, according to University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato’s recent Crystal Ball analysis.
Monticello High School hosted 24 South American students part of the Youth Ambassador Program through the UVa Center for Politics and the State Department. After touring the University of Virginia, talking about politics with Professor Larry Sabato and singing karaoke on the corner they spent a full day at Monticello High School to see what school is like in America.
Thursday night, a University of Virginia student is sharing his story about transitioning to college with a disability. James Cassar has relied on his positive attitude, UVA's Learning Needs and Evaluation Center, and a little help from his friends to adjust to his first year of college. Now, he's sharing his outlook to help other students get ready for what's ahead.
Among kidney dialysis patients, Hispanics tend to live longer than blacks and whites, a new study finds. Learning the reasons for these racial differences could help improve care for all kidney disease patients, the investigators said. ... The longer survival time associated with race "is one of the unresolved issues that has been around for some time and is of interest to health care providers, patients and public policy," study author Guofen Yan, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said in a journal news release.
Guest is Joseph J. Thorndike, author of “Their Fair Share: Taxing The Rich In The Age Of FDR” and a visiting scholar in History Department
Earl Howerton watched with pride Thursday morning as the first of two ecoMod home units for South Boston’s Poplar Creek Subdivision project were placed on their respective foundations. After all, the president of Southside Outreach Group has been a driving force in bringing affordable housing to Halifax County in recent years. This latest project, a cooperative effort between the Town of South Boston, University of Virginia, SIPS of Virginia in Blairs, SVHEC and Cardinal Homes of Wylliesburg, is a big step forward, he explained.
Teenagers who have difficulty making and maintaining healthy friendships with peers at age 13 continue to struggle with relationships long after high school, according to a new University of Virginia longitudinal study.
the position is attractive because it is seen as a stepping stone to become the governor, said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
As for the back story, researchers from the University of Virginia and College of William and Mary investigated how daylight saving time impacts crime rates. Results revealed daylight saving decreased robbery by a staggering 51 percent!
"I suppose it's legal, but it's also tawdry," said Larry Sabato, director at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
A recent New York Times article reported U.S. law schools are facing a 30-year lull in applications, which may be the result of increases in tuition rates, rising student debt levels and a declining job market. ... Not all Virginia schools have seen a downward trend in applicants. Both the College of William and Mary’s and the University of Virginia’s law programs saw an increase in applicants during the past few years. ... “What we saw at the tail end of the housing bubble [was] applications increased substantially,” said University of Virginia Law School Dean Paul G. ...
...This kind of hands-on guidance can be especially important for girls in their early teen years, said Edith "Winx" Lawrence, a professor at the University of Virginia. ... So Lawrence, who will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Women’s Week at the University of Utah, co-founded the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP), which matches up UVA college women mentors with girls at surrounding middle schools. They talk with, listen to and support each other.
Looking past the barbed wire and armed guards, this classroom is like any other, with books, desks, even a chalkboard. Inside this room at the Dillwyn Correctional Center inmates transform into students, enrolled at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. "When we first stepped in the classroom to teach these MBA type classes to people that were incarcerated, there were questions," said Greg Fairchild, a professor at Darden and the brains behind the Prison Entrepreneurship Program at the prison.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing cut the ribbon to its new 62,000-square-foot facility on Monday morning in Prince George County. The public-private research facility, the first of its kind in the United States, aims to improve the research processes in the fields of surface engineering and advanced manufacturing. CCAM is partnering with 15 member companies, such as Canon, Siemens and Rolls-Royce, as well as three universities, Virginia State University, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Book review of Jewish studies professor Asher Biemann’s new book, “Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme”