During March 2025, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 18,061 new full-text downloads of the 5,846 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,421 different institutions across 148 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 854,085.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,126 times in March 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, 267 new downloads
Generative AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright Infringement in Legal Documents by Amy Cyphert, 113 new downloads
Prosecuting Members of ISIS for Destruction of Cultural Property by Cody Corliss, 44 new downloads
Land Use Conflicts Between Wind and Solar Renewable Energy and Agriculture Uses by Peggy Kirk Hall, Whitney Morgan and Jesse Richardson, 43 new downloads
Reprogramming Recidivism: The First Step Act and Algorithmic Prediction of Risk by Amy Cyphert, 26 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 15.423 times in March 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, 112 new downloads
Environmental Law--The Refuse Act by David Jeffrey Millstone, 98 new downloads
Strengths and Limitations of Forensic Science: What DNA Exonerations Have Taught Us and Where to Go From Here by Vanessa Meterko, 71 new downloads
"Environmental Racism and Invisible Communities by Robert D. Bullard, 67 new downloads
Courts of Law and Equity--Why They Exist and Why They Differ by Warren B. Kittle, 67 new downloads