On Thursday, September 14, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law Professor and Director of the Academic Excellence Center Kirsha Trychta joined a panel of academic excellence and bar success experts to discuss the latest developments in the NextGen bar exam. The program was titled "NextGen Examined" and was hosted by Themis Bar Review as a webinar.
A recording of the webinar is available from Themis Bar Review review: register here to view.
As of June 30, 2023, we reached a meaningful milestone in scholarly impact data collection at WVU Law. With five years of download and citation data to consider, trends emerge more clearly and we begin to make a number of practical observations. A few early ideas worth sharing:
Prioritize scholarship in the institutional repository ("IR"). Downloads from our IR outperform downloads from SSRN by over 60% reflecting a broader audience attracted by our IR. We recognize that the body of scholarship hosted in the IR is different than the body of scholarship hosted in SSRN but by a margin of only 15%. Prioritizing scholarship in the IR does not substitute posting to SSRN. Both are recommended to maximize exposure and dissemination of scholarship.
The scholarship of West Virginia University College of Law faculty members is frequently cited as authority in numerous legal disciplines. The following is a list of faculty authored works cited and made available on Westlaw Precision between April 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023.
During August 2023, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 12,498 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 906 different institutions across 140 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 549,677.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,506 times in August 2023. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:
West Virginia College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published a new opinion piece in JAMA. The article, titled "Free Speech Challenges to the Inflation Reduction Act," is co-authored by Professor Tu with Rebecca Tushnet of Harvard Law School. It was published online by the journal on August 29, 2023.
The article discusses the First Amendment free speech claims raised by drug manufacturers in lawsuits brought after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The IRA attempts to lower prescription drug prices, insurance premiums, and out-of-pocket costs for patients.
