During May 2025, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 25,108 new full-text downloads of the 5,849 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,587 different institutions across 156 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 935,645.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 6,406 times in May 2025. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:
Legal and Policy Issues for a Growing Agritourism Industry by Peggy Kirk Hall, Jesse J. Richardson, and Kristine Tidgren, 603 new downloads
Artificial Intelligence: Legal Reasoning, Legal Research and Legal Writing by S. Sean Tu, Amy Cyphert, and Samuel Perl, 224 new downloads
Ecosocialism, Degrowth, and Global South Thought: Critical Legal Transformations by Nicholas F. Stump, 192 new downloads
Generative AI, Plagiarism, and Copyright Infringement in Legal Documents by Amy Cyphert, 96 new downloads
Cooperatives: The First Social Enterprise by Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, 92 new downloads
Articles from the West Virginia Law Review were downloaded 20,894 times in May 2025. The most downloaded articles from the West Virginia Law Review are:
The Dental Health of Rural Elderly People and Its Social Justice Implications by Jacqueline Fox, 450 new downloads
Rehnquist's Renunciation - The Chief Justice's Constitutional Duty to Preside over Impeachment Trials by Michael F. Williams, 426 new downloads
People of the State of Illinois vs. John Gacy: The Functioning of the Insanity Defense at the Limits of the Criminal Law by Donald H.J. Herman, et al., 221 new downloads
John Locke's Theory of Government and Fundamental Constitutional Rights: A Proposal for Understanding by Nicholas L. DiVita, 200 new downloads
Courts of Law and Equity--Why They Exist and Why They Differ by Warren B. Kittle, 135 new downloads