Professor Sean Tu Interviewed by MedPage Today

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Sean Tu was recently interviewed by MedPage Today. In the interview, Professor Tu discusses the methods that pharmaceutical companies use to monopolize the prescription drug market such as evergreening, patent thicketing, and product topping.  The interview was published online on February 3, 2023.

Professor Tu has recently published on the topic in the New England Journal of Medicine: A “Method of Use” to Prevent Generic and Biosimilar Market Entry. This article was published online by the journal on January 25, 2023 in print in volume 388.

Research Repository Update: January 2023

During January 2023, the contents of the   WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 13,617 new full-text downloads of the 5,730 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,207 different institutions across 145 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 449,676.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,004 times in January 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Professor Jena Martin Publishes Book Chapter in The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin will publish a chapter in a forthcoming volume from Edward Elgar Publishing, The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Professor Martin authored "Guiding Principle 8: Ensuring Policy Coherence". The book is available for pre-order now and will be available in March 2023.

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Professor Joshua Weishart Publishes Commentary in Washington Post

West Virginia College of Law professor Joshua Weishart recently published commentary in the Washington Post on teachers' rights. In this article, titled "The basic rights teachers don’t have", Professor Weishart discusses the retraction of teacher rights nationwide over the last decade, including their First Amendment rights as educators and thus, academic freedoms.

Professor Weishart's article is informed by research recently published in the U.C. Davis Law Review: "The Right to Teach."