West Virginia University College of Law professor Matthew Titolo was named WVU Law's Significant Scholarship Award winner for the 2023-2024 academic year. Professor Titolo earns this award for his recently published book, "Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy." The Significant Scholarship Award is given to a law faculty member each year whose written work addresses an important public issue while demonstrating their ability to conduct thorough research through clear and concise writing.

"Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy" is published by Cambridge University Press.

The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 12, Issue 1 on May 2, 2024. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:

Anne Marie Lofaso, Is the Statutory 60-Day Deadline for Filing a Petition for Review of a Final MSPB Order Jurisdictional?, No. 2024-001

West Virginia University College of Law professor Dale Olson recently published new scholarship in the Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review. The article is titled Defining Fair Use in the Digital Era: A tentative Appraisal of Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc." and appears in volume 7 of the journal.  The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review is published by the University of Missouri School of Law.

From the abstract:

During March 2024, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 16,663 new full-text downloads of the 5,805 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,265 different institutions across 154 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 675,675.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,977 times in March 2024. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

On Thursday, April 16, 2024, 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 NextGen bar exam. The program was titled "NextGen Faculty Meeting – How to Prepare and Respond when Presenting on the NextGen Bar Exam" and was hosted by AccessLex Institute at the Building Bar Skills Conference.