During August 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 12,498 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 906 different institutions across 140 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 549,677.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,506 times in August 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

West Virginia College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published a new opinion piece in JAMA. The article, titled  "Free Speech Challenges to the Inflation Reduction Act," is co-authored by Professor Tu with Rebecca Tushnet of Harvard Law School.  It was published online by the journal on August 29, 2023.

The article discusses the First Amendment free speech claims raised by drug manufacturers in lawsuits brought after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.  The IRA attempts to lower prescription drug prices, insurance premiums, and out-of-pocket costs for patients. 

West Virginia University College of Law professor Caroline Osborne recently posted new scholarship to SSRN. The work is co-authored with Stephen Wolfson of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and titled Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, A Narrow Ruling or a Transformational Decision? An Essay.

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During July 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 18,519 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 852 different institutions across 144 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 537,081.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,213 times in July 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

On Saturday, August 12, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert spoke during an education session at the 2023 West Virginia Press Convention. Professor Cyphert's session was titled "Artificial intelligence, ethics and its implications for communications" during which she spoke about the impact of large language models on journalism and media. Professor Cyphert's scholarship on this topic includes:

A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 and the Practice of Law, 55 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 401 (2021).