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(New) media and memory
No full textThis chapter suggests that while media, and “new” media in particular, have offered tremendous possibility for the storage, circulation, and study of memory, “new” platforms have also created spaces for the abuse and manipulation of the past, creating inroads for hate and hate speech. Given the expanse of mediated memory’s reach, this chapter focuses on several key arenas where the politics of “new” media have most profoundly shaped memory and its study: knowledge and knowledge production, narrative, space/place, time, affect, and ethics. The case studies considered are cited to underscore the opportunities, challenges, and spaces of tension that necessarily arise when considering the place of “new” media within the context of memory work
An essential element of indigenous nations
No full text“Every time we carry an eagle feather, that’s sovereignty. Every time we pick berries, that’s sovereignty. Every time we dig roots, that’s sovereignty.” Billy Frank, Jr., Nisqually Nation
The U.S. Supreme Court recently shifted judicial gears by reaffirming U.S. treaty obligations and Native sovereignty. What is Native sovereignty, why is it important, and how do Native Nations coexist with America’s federal system?
Recent studies by Paulette Steeves (Cree-Metis) and other scholars place Native peoples continuously in the Americas for at least 130,000 years. During those millennia, communities organized themselves in various ways, continuously exercising a set of powers we now call sovereignty
[Abstract for] Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent
No full textndigenous Governance is a comprehensive, critical examination of Native political systems—the senior political sovereigns on the North American continent in terms of their origin, development, structures, and operation. Nearly six hundred Indigenous governments operate on lands connected to the state and federal governments. This study will, of necessity, be a broad comparative and illustrative analysis of these organic bodies. This study provides both the recognition and respect due to Indigenous governments while offering a critique of attributes that merit scrutiny. Governments are human constructions and, therefore, imperfect institutions. This appraisal will highlight their history, evolution, internal and intergovernmental issues, and diverse structures. These governments have always mattered to their constituencies but, today, given the weight and importance of many issues confronting Native peoples—from the devastating and lingering health and economic impact of COVID-19 to the profound environmental problems that have been exacerbated by climate change, and jurisdictional conflicts with local, state, and federal actors—they arguably matter even more to their peoples and the broader society. Native governments command attention as, after recovery from decades of federal dominance and dependence, they now exercise greater degrees of political, economic, and cultural power, and have become critically important as the chief providers of basic services and the authors of solutions to collective problems in their societies. They are major vessels of Indigenous-infused democratic politics; they are, for many communities—including non-Native neighbors—the largest spenders and employers; and key players in negotiating intergovernmental agreements that fortify their unique political status.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1418/thumbnail.jp
The amenity value of natural views
No full textWe estimate nonmarket values for natural views in an urban setting. These views contain the aesthetics of natural areas commonly found in public parks and open space, and offer an aspect of property valuation that previous research is unable to disentangle from proximity to parks and open space. We incorporate machine learning techniques on Google Street View images to identify natural views in an urban setting. We find positive capitalization rates associated with household views of park-like properties. Estimates are robust to a variety of specifications, including models that are identified off of new developments on neighboring properties and falsification tests that help to rule out the effect of a broader neighborhood environment. From a policy perspective, our results inform as to the optimal size, location, and shape of open space. Furthermore, machine learning methods used in the construction of our view variable provide a potentially powerful tool for other nonmarket valuation studies
Hybridization and polyploidy in the Turtleheads
No full textThe VNPS Wildflower of the Year for 2024 is Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead. Altogether, there are four species of Turtlehead native to eastern North America, and three of these are known to occur in Virginia
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person-Centered Approach to Examine Cross-Domain Multi-Passion Profiles during a Crisis
No full textWe examine whether having cross-domain passion (i.e., harmonious and obsessive passion for work and for non-work activities) during the COVID-19 pandemic can help individuals fare better amid the crisis. Drawing from work-family boundary framework, we develop a provisional theory of cross-domain multi-passion, and in two studies, we use latent profile analysis to uncover five passion profiles – Dispassionate at Work and Play; Dispassionate at Work, Ambidextrous at Play; Harmonious at Work, Ambidextrous at Play; Harmonious at Work and Play; and Moderately Harmonious at Work and Play. In Study 1, we inductively explore these profiles and their relationships with life satisfaction. In Study 2, we replicate the number and content of these profiles, and test whether segmentation-integration preferences and work and non-work constraints predict the probability of individuals belonging to a certain profile. Overall, these profiles reveal how individuals can co-host multiple forms of passion simultaneously, and how doing so relate to their life satisfaction during the pandemic
Acknowledgements
Get PDFEach year, in a tradition dating back twenty-three years to Volume 33, the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Richmond Law Review authors acknowledgements to be included in their volume’s final publication. In keeping with tradition, I offer below my gratitude to those who have contributed to this publication and to the overall success of the Law Review, and reflect upon the fifty-seventh volume of our journal
How Biden Can Continue Making the Federal Courts Better
Get PDFFrom 2017 until 2020, former President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate majority nominated and confirmed record-breaking numbers of appellate court judges. This emphasis undermined ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and experiential diversity as well as ideological balance on these courts and neglected to address persistent district court and emergency vacancies. Moreover, to achieve these historic confirmation levels, the GOP Senate majority eviscerated or altered certain rules and customs of regular order, which included the creation of a circuit-level exception to the blue slip process. President Joe Biden, in turn, has pledged to rectify the damage to the courts and the judicial selection process wrought by the Trump Administration.
This Article provides an overview of the recent historical and political context regarding judicial nominations and confirmations followed by an examination of the nomination and confirmation processes deployed by President Trump and the Senate majorities in the 115th and 116th Congress. Next, the Article explores the nomination and confirmation processes that have been employed thus far by the Biden Administration and the Democratic Senate majority. These processes include emphasis on openings at the appellate court level and intentionally nominating candidates who are diverse in terms of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ideology, and experience. The quintessential illustration is the confirmation of the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Finally, the Article proffers both short-term and long-term suggestions respecting how the Biden Administration might continue to improve the judicial selection process and the courts. Short-term suggestions include elevating magistrate, state-level, and district court judges; renaming qualified Obama nominees whom the Senate did not confirm; and maintaining or expanding the blue slip exception for the time being. Long-term suggestions include clarifying and codifying the Leahy Rule and instituting a bipartisan judiciary. Having maintained Democrats’ Senate majority in the 2022 elections, which happened shortly after the writing of this article, President Biden and the Democratic senators may have the opportunity to implement these suggestions in the near future
Taxation
Get PDFThis Article reviews significant recent developments in the laws affecting Virginia state and local taxation. Its Parts cover legislative activity, judicial decisions, and selected opinions from the past year. Part I of this Article addresses taxes administered by the Virginia Department of Taxation (the “Tax Department” or “Department”). Part II covers local taxes, including real and tangible personal property machinery and tools, license taxes, and other discrete local taxes.
The overall purpose of this Article is to provide Virginia tax and general practitioners with a concise overview of the recent developments in Virginia taxation that are most likely to impact their clients. However, it does not address many of the numerous minor, locality-specific, or technical legislative changes to Title 58.1 of the Code of Virginia, which covers taxation
The Current State of Abortion Law in Virginia Leaves Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence Vulnerable to Abuse: Why Virginia Should Codify the Right to Abortion in the State Constitution†
Get PDFAll people must have access to safe and legal reproductive health care—especially victims of sexual and domestic violence who can and do become pregnant because of the violence they experience. This year, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In doing so, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. Though abortion access is currently protected in Virginia, this could change with each new General Assembly session. To guard against the danger that this poses to victims of sexual and domestic violence, Virginia can guarantee the ability of every citizen to access necessary healthcare by enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution and by enacting strong statutory protections