On Monday, October 16, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law Professor Joshua Weishart participated in conference to launch the Education Rights Institute at the University of Virginia School of Law. The Education Rights Institute is a newly formed center at UVA Law that "aims to expand the opportunity for students in the United States to enjoy a right to a high-quality education that empowers them to be college- and career-ready and engaged citizens."

Professor Weishart served as a panelist in a program titled "Law and Policy Reforms for Educational Opportunity Gaps" with other education law experts and moderated by the ERI's inaugural director Kimberly Jenkins Robinson.

During September 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 14,551 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1173 different institutions across 141 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 574,852.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,870 times in September 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

This semester, we have been curious as to the impact of promotion of our faculty scholarship, specifically our institution’s SSRN paper series. Our inquiry extended to how broadly a work is promoted, distributed, and how descriptive is its metadata via SSRN.  We typically distribute issues of our paper series multiple times throughout an academic year.  Some observations:

Downloads of works with tiles that include a case name increased by 21% in the week after distribution. No additional promotion efforts were undertaken during that time frame, for this example.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso recently published in the ABA's PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases. Professor Lofaso comments on an upcoming employment law case, Murray v. UBS Securities LLC, Docket No. 22-660, to be heard in the October 2023 term. The article is titled "Under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Must Whistleblower–Employees Prove Their Employer Acted With Retaliatory Intent?" Professor Lofaso's contribution appears in volume 51, issue 1 of the journal, published in September 2023.

Case at a Glance:

The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 11, Issue 2 on September 14, 2023. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:

Valarie Blake, The Freedom Premium, No. 2023-010