During July 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 18,519 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 852 different institutions across 144 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 537,081.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,213 times in July 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

On Saturday, August 12, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert spoke during an education session at the 2023 West Virginia Press Convention. Professor Cyphert's session was titled "Artificial intelligence, ethics and its implications for communications" during which she spoke about the impact of large language models on journalism and media. Professor Cyphert's scholarship on this topic includes:

A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 and the Practice of Law, 55 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 401 (2021).

On August 3, 2023, West Virginia University law professor  Cody Corliss published an op-ed piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In "Vladimir Putin, war criminal" Professor Corliss discusses the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court in The Hauge for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes committed in Ukraine. 

Find more of Professor Corliss's scholarship on  SSRN and his  SelectedWorks scholarship profile.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso was recently interviewed by host June Grasso on the Bloomberg Law podcast.  In the episode, which aired on July 18, 2023, Professor Lofaso discusses the implications of a law passed by the New York State legislature to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts.  

West Virginia University College of Law professor  S. Sean Tu recently published a new article in Nature Biotechnology. The article, titled  "The prevalence of drug patent term extensions in the United States, 2000–2018," analyzes the impact of patent term extension (PTE) on drug market exclusivity.  Professor Tu co-authored with work with Victor L. Van de Wiele, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and  Sarosh Nagar, all of whom are affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, It was published online by the journal on July 14, 2023.

Find more of Professor Tu's scholarship on  SSRN.