The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 11, Issue 1 on May 16, 2023. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:
Joshua E. Weishart, Brief of Amici Curiae Constitution and Education Law Scholars in Support of Respondents in West Virginia v. Beaver, No. 2023-001
During April 2023, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 13,567 new full-text downloads of the 5,766 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,121 different institutions across 144 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 493,769.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,702 times in April 2023. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:
West Virginia University College of Law professor and director of the Law Library Caroline Osborne is the 2023 recipient of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship. This national award recognizes leaders in law librarianship who demonstrate continued efforts to improve and advance the profession. The Hicks Award was established in 2000 and is awarded annually by the Academic Law Libraries SIS of the American Association of Law Libraries. Professor Osborne joins an impressive list of distinguished librarians, scholars, and teachers. This much-deserved award acknowledges her accomplishments and commitment to innovation in law librarianship.
Find Professor Osborne's scholarship on SSRN and on her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.
West Virginia University College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published a new Research Letter in JAMA. The article, titled "Five-Year Sales for Newly Marketed Prescription Drugs With and Without Initial Orphan Drug Act Designation," analyzes sales revenue earned in the first 5 years for drugs with and without an initial orphan designation. Professor Tu co-authored with work with Sarosh Nagar; Aaron S. Kesselheim, Zhigang Lu, and Benjamin N. Rome, all of whom are affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. It was published online by the journal on May 9, 2023.
Find more of Professor Tu's scholarship on SSRN.
West Virginia University College of Law professor Caroline Osborne and librarian Stephanie Miller recently presented a webinar sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries on the topic of assessment as decision-making tools. The webinar was part of AALL's "Coffee Talk" series and was presented on April 25, 2023.
From the program description:
