During May 2024, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 15,109 new full-text downloads of the 5,813 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,077 different institutions across 142 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 708,659.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,242 times in May 2024. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:
Generative AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright Infringement in Legal Documents by Amy Cyphert, 147 new downloads
Use of Artificial Intelligence to Determine Copyright Liability for Musical Works by S. Sean Tu, 66 new downloads
Land Use Conflicts Between Wind and Solar Renewable Energy and Agriculture Uses by Peggy Kirk Hall, Whitney Morgan, and Jesse Richardson, 65 new downloads
Gandhi: The Spirituality and Politics of Suffering by Charles R. DiSalvo, 48 new downloads
Patent Examination and Examiner Interviews by S. Sean Tu, 47 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 12,564 times in May 2024. The most downloaded articles from the West Virginia Law Review are:
People of the State of Illinois vs. John Gacy: The Functioning of the Insanity Defense at the Limits of the Criminal Law by Donald H. Herman, et al., 494 new downloads
John Locke's Theory of Government and Fundamental Constitutional Rights: A Proposal for Understanding by Nicholas L. DiVita, 236 new downloads
Folklore and Forensics: The Challenges of Arson Investigation and Innocence Claims by Parisa Dehghani-Tafti and Paul Bieber, 181 new downloads
Judicially Imposed Liquor Liability and Developments in West Virginia Negligence Actions by R. Scott Summers, 174 new downloads
A Survey of the Law of Easements in West Virginia by John W. Fisher II, 161 new downloads