Read Full Article (PDF) Confirm Julie Rikelman for the First Circuit Now that the United States Senate has reconvened after pauses for holidays, the upper chamber must expeditiously appoint designee Julie Rikelman to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Read Full Article (PDF) Redemption Lawyer and University of Richmond Law graduate Robert C. Smith—the great-great-grandson of T.C. Williams, Sr.—has recently claimed that his family is owed a refund of $3.6 billion from the University of Richmond,...
Read Full Article (PDF) Unavoidable Necessities: How COVID-19 and Ali v. Commonwealth Illustrate the Need for a New Balancing Test for Speedy Trial Right Claims The COVID-19 pandemic is still an ever-present phenomenon in the United States. Since the...
Read Full Article (PDF) The Role of Virginia Evidence Law in Colas v. Tyree The Supreme Court of Virginia recently decided a significant case involving an all-too-common circumstance: a police officer’s use of deadly force against a person suffering a...
Read Full Article (PDF) Acknowledgments The University of Richmond Law Review is honored to present its 2023 Symposium Issue: Overlooked America: Addressing Legal Issues Facing Rural United States. Each year, the University of Richmond Law Review hosts a...
Read Full Article (PDF) Foreword: Toward a New Compact With Rural America The interpretation of United States laws and policies, and the extent to which they obstruct or support rural places and people to take advantage of opportunity, are at the nexus of our...
Read Full Article (PDF) Rural America as a Commons With many ready to dismiss non-urban life as a relic of history, rural America’s place in the future is in question. The rural role in the American past is understandably more apparent. As the story of...
Read Full Article (PDF) Those Who Need the Most, Get the Least: The Challenge of, and Opportunity for Helping Rural Virginia Rural America, as has been well documented, faces many challenges. Businesses and people are migrating to more urban and suburban...
Read Full Article (PDF) Enhancing Rural Representation Through Electoral System Diversity Rural Virginians face disparities in outcomes regarding healthcare, access to important infrastructure, and other services. Some disparities may be related to rurality....
Read Full Article (PDF) With a Wink and a Nod: How Politicians, Regulators, and Corrupt Coal Companies Exploited Appalachia Environmental regulators treated America’s leading coal companies like Wall Street’s mismanaged banks leading to the “Great...
Read Full Article (PDF)Rural Bashing Anti-rural sentiment is expressed in the United States in three major threads. The first is a narrative about the political structure of our representative democracy—an assertion that rural people are over-represented thanks...
Read Full Article (PDF)Duped by Dope: The Sackler Family's Attempt to Escape Opioid Liability and the Need to Close the Non-Debtor Release Loophole The opioid epidemic continues to rage on in the United States, ravaging its rural populations. One of its main...
