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Members of the University of Virginia School of Law community have recently been singled out for excellence. Among the accolades, Professor Saikrishna Prakash<\/a> was part of an American Law Institute project<\/a> exploring reforms to the Electoral Count Act.<\/p>\n The group, co-chaired by New York University law professor Bob Bauer \u201976, unanimously agreed that Congress should reform the ECA, passed in 1887, in time for the 2024 election. The project proposed principles \u201cin an effort to contribute to a constitutionally sound bipartisan consensus in Congress.\u201d Among the suggestions were limiting objections to electoral votes grounded in explicit constitutional requirements; moving the Electoral College meeting date to account for recounts and legal challenges; and affirming that states cannot disregard votes or electors contrary to laws in place on Election Day.<\/p>\n \u201cThis group shares our commitment to focus on correcting the deep and serious structural problems in our system of counting and certifying ballots for President and Vice President, and we are pleased to note that many of the areas the American Law Institute members have selected parallel our group\u2019s efforts,\u201d U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Joe Manchin said in a joint statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prakash is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Albert Clark Tate, Jr., Professor of Law.<\/p>\n Professor Margaret Foster Riley<\/a> is co-directing the new Health Care Policy Initiative<\/a> at UVA\u2019s Miller Center with presidential history professor Guian McKee. The initiative focuses on domestic health policy and global health security. Riley, McKee and J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discussed the rapidly shifting public health approach to the pandemic at the initiative\u2019s debut event, \u201cThe Fight Against COVID: Has the U.S. Entered a New Normal?,\u201d on March 30.<\/p>\n Riley is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor at the Miller Center, Professor of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and director of the Law School\u2019s Animal Law Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\tRiley Joins Miller Center Initiative<\/h2>\n