During December 2024, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 10,095 new full-text downloads of the 5,822 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 671 different institutions across 142 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 792,899.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 2,931 times in December 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, 204 new downloads
Artificial Intelligence: Legal Reasoning, Legal Research and Legal Writing by S. Sean Tu, Amy Cyphert, and Samuel Perl, 160 new downloads
Yielding to the Necessities of a Great Public Industry: Denial and Concealment of the Harmful Health Effects of Coal Mining by Caitlyn Green and Patrick C. McGinley, 45 new downloads
Land Use Conflicts Between Wind and Solar Renewable Energy and Agriculture Uses by Peggy Kirk Hall, Whitney Morgan and Jesse Richardson, 44 new downloads
Tinker-ing with Machine Learning: The Legality and Consequences of Online Surveillance of Students by Amy Cyphert, 39 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 8,056 times in December 2024. The most downloaded articles from the West Virginia Law Review are:
John Locke's Theory of Government and Fundamental Constitutional Rights: A Proposal for Understanding by Nicholas L. DiVita, 233 new downloads
Gaming--Slot Machines as Gaming Devices Under West Virginia Statute by P.B.H., 88 new downloads
Torts--Invitees, Licensees and Trespassers--A Trend towards Abolishing Classification of Entrants by Stephen R. Brooks, 78 new downloads
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: Double-Tapping under the Laws of War by Stephen W. Simpson, 68 new downloads
Strengths and Limitations of Forensic Science: What DNA Exonerations Have Taught Us and Where to Go From Here by Vanessa Meterko, 67 new downloads