During February 2025, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 13,565 new full-text downloads of the 5,845 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,335 different institutions across 141 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 836,024.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,698 times in February 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, 297 new downloads
Generative AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright Infringement in Legal Documents by Amy Cyphert, 157 new downloads
Blockchain Safe Harbor? Applying the Lessons Learned From Early Internet Regulation by Amy Cyphert and Sam Perl, 77 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, 38 new downloads
Patent Examination and Examiner Interviews by S. Sean Tu, 33 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 10,972 times in February 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, 83 new downloads
Bias Preservation in Machine Learning: The Legality of Fairness Metrics Under EU Non-Discrimination Lawr by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, and Chris Russell, 75 new downloads
"But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes, and the FLSA by Sam E. Ehrlich, 60 new downloads
Courts of Law and Equity--Why They Exist and Why They Differ by Warren B. Kittle, 56 new downloads
Suretyship, Guaranty and Indemnity--Distinctions by E.H.Y, 51 new downloads