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During June 2024, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 13,341 new full-text downloads of the 5,814 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 697 different institutions across 140 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 722,000.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,264 times in June 2024. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

West Virginia University College of Law professor and Director of the Academic Excellence Center Kirsha Trychta was recently elected to serve as co-chair of the planning committee for the Association of Academic Support Educators. As co-chair, Professor Trychta will work to plan and manage AASE's annual meeting and other professional development programming. She will serve during the 2024-2025 term.

Professor Trychta's scholarship may be found on her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Mary Claire Davis recently published new scholarship in the West Virginia Law Review. The article is titled "Keeping All American Workers Paid and Employed? How Small Businesses with Independent Contractors Feel Slighted by the Paycheck Protection Program and What Can be Done" and appears in volume 126 of the journal.

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During May 2024, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 15,109 new full-text downloads of the 5,813 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,077 different institutions across 142 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 708,659.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,242 times in May 2024. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert was recently intereviewed by hosts Justice Rhonda Wood of Arkansas and Justice Beth Walker of West Virginia on the podcast, Lady Justice: Women of the Court . On the podcast, Justices Wood and Walker regularly discuss the real-world implicaations of the justice system and their role as women justices. The podcast is produced in partnership with the National Center for State Courts.

In season 4, episode 7 , Professor Cyphert shares her insight on AI and the law, including the advancements of generative AI and its impact on legal practice.