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."
West Virginia College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published new scholarship in the New England Journal of Medicine. The article is titled A "Method of Use" to Prevent Generic and Biosimilar Market Entry. Professor Tu co-authored the article with Ameet Sarpatwari, Ph.D., J.D., a colleague at the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Harvard Medical School where Professor Tu is a visiting professor. It was published online by the journal on January 25, 2023 and will subsequently appear in print in volume 388 on February 9, 2023.
Find more of Professor Tu's scholarship on SSRN.
West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso recently published new scholarship in the Utah Law Review. The article was co-authored with Ashley M. Stephens, a 2022 graduate of the College of Law. Alternatives to Mainstream Alternative Dispute Resolution: Eliminating Forced Arbitration Agreements as a Condition of Employment appears in the fifth issue of the 2022 volume of the journal.
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West Virginia College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published new opinion piece in JAMA. The article, titled "Recent Patent Reform Bills and Their Implications for Prescription Drugs," is co-authored by Professor Tu with researchers at Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Harvard Medical School where Professor Tu is a visiting professor. It was published online by the journal on January 13, 2023.
The article discusses three bills expected to be re-introduced in Congress this session with implication for intellectual property law: the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 (S. 4734), the Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2022 (S. 4430), and the Patent Examination and Quality Improvement Act of 2022 (S. 4704).
On Friday, January 6, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law professor and Director of the Academic Excellence Center Kirsha Trychta moderated a panel discussion at the AALS annual meeting in San Diego, CA.
