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Professor Elaine Waterhouse Wilson Publishes New Work in Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

West Virginia University College of Law professor Elaine Waterhouse Wilson recently published a new article in volume 56, of the Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal. The article is titled "The Fallacies Behind The Excise Tax On "Excessive" Charity Compensation". The full text is available on SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=5313541.

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Professor Amy Cyphert Publishes New Scholarship in Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy

West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert recently published new scholarship in the Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy . The article, Code Blue: The Threat of Synthetic Data Use to Generative Medical AI, was co-authored with Valarie Blake of the University of Tennessee College of Law. It appears in volume 24, issue 1 of the journal.

In this new publication Professors Cyphert and Blake "critically examine the burgeoning intersection of generative AI and synthetic data within the healthcare sector." The article is available online from the journal at: https://houstonhealthlaw.scholasticahq.com/article/128625-code-blue-the-threat-of-synthetic-data-use-to-generative-medical-ai

Research Repository Update: May 2025

During May 2025, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 25,108 new full-text downloads of the 5,849 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,587 different institutions across 156 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 935,645.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 6,406 times in May 2025. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Librarian Stephanie Miller Presents at Mapping Scholarly Communications in Law Libraries Conference

On Friday, May 23, 2025, law librarian Stephanie Miller presented a new work-in-progress at the Mapping Scholarly Communications in Law Libraries conference. The conference was held at the University at Buffalo School of Law and hosted by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. The conference presented the results of the first major survey describing the extent of scholarly communications work being performed in academic law libraries in the United States in addition to presentations of papers written by members of the study team and other librarian scholars. Ms. Miller presented a paper titled "All in Good Time: An Analysis of Longitudinal Citation Data to Assess the Impact of Open Access Digital Archives."

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Professor Elaine Waterhouse Wilson Publishes New Scholarship on the West Virginia Neighborhood Investment Program Credit

West Virginia University College of Law professor Elaine Waterhouse Wilson recently published a new article in volume 127, issue 2 of the West Virginia Law Review. The article is titled "The Hidden Cost of State Income Tax Repeal: A Case Study of the West Virginia Neighborhood Investment Program Credit". The full text is available on SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=5260128.

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