The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 10, Issue 1 on April 7, 2022. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:

S. Sean Tu, Overqualified and Under-Represented: Gender inequality in the Pharmaceutical Patent Field (with Paul R. Gugliuzza and Amy Semet), Technology Changes Drive Legal Changes for Antibody Patents: What Patent Examiners Can Teach Courts About the Written Description and Enablement Requirements, and Effectiveness of Examiner Interviews.

During March 2022, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 11,835 new full-text downloads of the 5,678 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,129 different institutions across 150 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 328,672.

The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection in March 2022:

On March 30, 2022, West Virginia University College of Law professor Nicole McConlogue spoke on a panel, The Surveillance State: Big Data as Big Brother. The program was hosted by the University of Baltimore School of Law as part of the UB Law in Focus Discussion Series. Professor McConolgue was joined by other experts in the field including Aiha Nguyen of the Labor Futures at Data & Society Research Institute and Univeristy of Baltimore Law Professor Michele Gilman. The discussion was moderated by University of Baltimroe Law Professor Colin Starger.

From the program description:

West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso recently published new work in the ABA's PREVIEW of United States Supreme Court Cases. Professor Lofaso writes commentary on LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Docket No. 20-807, an upcoming labor and employment law case.  It is titled "Is a Locomotive In Use and Therefore Subject to Locomotive Inspection Act Liability When It Makes a Temporary Stop?"  Professor Lofaso's contribution appears in volume 49, issue 6 of the journal, published in March 2022.

Case at a Glance:

During February 2022, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 10,298 new full-text downloads of the 5,675 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 934 different institutions across 124 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 316,692.

The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection in February 2022: