West Virginia College of Law professor Jena Martin recently spoke at the United Nations 10th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. The Forum was held virtually, November 29 to December 1, 2021. Professor Martin spoke in a session titled "Confronting racism: using the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to support transformative action". Her remarks centered on a joint project with Tara Van Ho of the University of Essex and Erika George of the University of Utah.  A recording of the session is now available: https://media.un.org/asset/k1w/k1w4gj52rf

The project culminated in a publication: Reckoning: A Dialogue About Racism, Antiracists, and Business & Human Rights .  The paper was published in Vol. 30 of The Washington International Law Journal. 

During November 2021, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 11,271 new full-text downloads of the 5,654 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 951 different institutions across 130 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 284,052.

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

On November 4, 2021, Amelia Smith Rinehart, West Virginia University College of Law Dean and Professor of Law, delivered the 28th annual fall lecture of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law at University of Houston Law Center. Dean Rinehart's lecture was titled "Navigating Multiplexed Technology Transfer", during which she shared her research on the question of ownership of technology when there are multiple inventors and multiple employers including the federal government, universities, or private corporations.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin was featured as a speaker in the University of Essex Human Rights Speaker series on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. The series is hosted by the University of Essex Human Rights Centre and the Essex Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub. Professor Martin's talk, titled "Racism and Business & Human Rights" was given with co-authors Erika George and Tara Van Ho. Professors Martin and George, and Dr. Van Ho published Reckoning: A Dialogue about Racism, AntiRacists, and Business & Human Rights in volume 30 of the Washington International Law Journal earlier this year.

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West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert recently published new scholarship in the U.C. Davis Law Review. The article, A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 and the Practice of Law, appears in volume 55, issue 1 of the journal.

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