During April 2025, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 22,085 new full-text downloads of the 5,846 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,777 different institutions across 152 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 875,080.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 5,276 times in April 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, 279 new downloads
Generative AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright Infringement in Legal Documents by Amy Cyphert, 113 new downloads
Cooperatives: The First Social Enterprise by Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, 67 new downloads
Land Use Conflicts Between Wind and Solar Renewable Energy and Agriculture Uses by Peggy Kirk Hall, Whitney Morgan and Jesse Richardson, 63 new downloads
Prosecuting Members of ISIS for Destruction of Cultural Property by Cody Corliss, 61 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 18,626 times in April 2025. The most downloaded articles from the West Virginia Law Review are:
Protecting the Faithful from Their Faith: A Proposal for Snake-Handling in West Virginia by Robert W. Kerns, Jr., 335 new downloads
John Locke's Theory of Government and Fundamental Constitutional Rights: A Proposal for Understanding by Nicholas L. DiVita, 180 new downloads
Hard Cases Make Bad Law: Extraterritorial Application of the United States Constitution by Brendan O. Beutell, 161 new downloads
"Environmental Racism and Invisible Communities by Robert D. Bullard, 111 new downloads
The Founders' Multi-Purpose Chief Justice: The English Origins of the American Chief Justiceship by Justin W. Aimonetti and Jackson A. Myers, 106 new downloads