West Virginia University College of Law librarian Nicholas Stump recently authored a new post at the Oxford Human Rights Hub. The post is titled "UN Council Resolution on Human Right to Healthy Environment: Implications for US Grassroots-Led ‘Non-Reformist Reforms'" and appeared on January 24, 2022.  Mr. Stump has been a contributor to the blog since 2016, published several pieces which are collectively available to read here: https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/author/nicholas-stump/

Find more of Nicholas Stump's work on SSRN and his SelectedWorks scholarship profile.

West Virginia University College of Law Professor and Academic Success Center Director Kirsha Trychta recently spoke at a program by the American Bar Association for first year law students. The event, held on January 28, 2022, was titled "Rebounding From First-Semester Law School Grades" and is now available to watch in its entirety.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Jesse Richardson presented at a recent program hosted by the National Agricultural Law Center. The program, titled "Wind and Solar Farms in Farm Country: Addressing Land Use Conflicts" was held on January 19, 2022. A recording is now available to watch: https://uada.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b2d87be8-6d94-48e3-a8c7-ae220131e443.

With co-presenters Whitney Morgan, also of WVU Law, and Peggy Kirk Hall of Ohio State University, Professor Richardson authored a related article: " Land Use Conflicts Between Wind and Solar Renewable Energy and Agricultural Uses".

West Virginia University College of Law professor Sean Tu has authored the newest edition of "Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, and Trademark."  This is the seventh edition of the volume which is a comprehensive desk reference with analysis of United States (US) copyright, patent, and trademark laws. Professor Tu's co-authors are Amanda Reid of the University of North Carolina and Jessica Kiser of Gonzaga University.

Find more of Professor Tu's scholarship on SSRN.

During December 2021, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 9,033 new full-text downloads of the 5,659 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 792 different institutions across 132 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 294,207.

The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection in December 2021: