During January 2025, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 29,555 new full-text downloads of the 5,845 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 2,377 different institutions across 151 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 822,459.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 6,536 times in January 2025. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:
Artificial Intelligence: Legal Reasoning, Legal Research and Legal Writing by S. Sean Tu, Amy Cyphert, and Samuel Perl, 247 new downloads
Generative AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright Infringement in Legal Documents by Amy Cyphert, 199 new downloads
The United Postal Service—The One Word that Makes all the Difference by Amy Cyphert, 70 new downloads
Land Use Conflicts Between Wind and Solar Renewable Energy and Agriculture Uses by Peggy Kirk Hall, Whitney Morgan and Jesse Richardson, 60 new downloads
Prosecuting Members of ISIS for Destruction of Cultural Property by Cody Corliss, 54 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 25,847 times in January 2025. 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, 118 new downloads
Courts of Law and Equity--Why They Exist and Why They Differ by Warren B. Kittle, 73 new downloads
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: Double-Tapping under the Laws of War by Stephen W. Simpson, 68 new downloads
Foundations of American Realism by Stephen R. Brooks, 67 new downloads
Nursing Malpractice--The Nurse's Duty to Follow Orders by Barbara R. Benningero, 61 new downloads