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Research Repository Update: July 2024

During July 2024, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 16,124 new full-text downloads of the 5,815 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 787 different institutions across 141 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 739,258.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,413 times in July 2024. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Professor Sean Tu Speaks on Panel, Prescription for Change: Reforming Patents to Lower Drug Costs

West Virginia University College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently participated in a virtual panel discussion on patent reform and the affordability and accessibility of prescription drugs. The event was organized by the R Street Institute and held on July 24, 2024. Professor Tu was joined on the panel by Wayne Broug, R Street Institute, and Tahir Amin, Co-founder and CEO of Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge. The discussion was moderated by Canyon Brimhall, R Street Institute. 

Watch the panel discussion online now:    

Professor Tu Publishes New Scholarship in Nature Biotechnology

West Virginia University College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published a new article in Nature Biotechnology. The article, titled "The cost of drug patent expiration date errors," analyzes the impact of errors in the US Patent and Trademark Office’s automated program to calculate patent expiration dates on drug prices. Professor Tu co-authored with work with Dinis Cheian, Sarah Gabriele, Benjamin N. Rome & Aaron S. Kesselheim. It was published online by the journal on July 17, 2024.

Find more of Professor Tu's scholarship on  SSRN.

Professor Cody Corliss Presents at International Legal Ethics Conference

West Virginia University College of Law professor Cody Corliss recently presented forthcoming scholarship at the International Legal Ethics Conference held at the University of Amsterdam, July 17-19, 2024. Professor Corliss presented An International Prosecutor as U.S. Special Counsel, a paper forthcoming in the Utah Law Review in 2025.

From the abstract: