In May 2021 West Virginia University College of Law profeessor Robert M. Bastress published Cases and Materials on West Virginia Constitutional Law to the Research Repository @ WVU. This open access casebook covers all aspects of constitutional law in West Virginia. Professor Bastress is an expert on West Virginia constitutional law having published numerous other works on the subject.

In October 2021, Professor Bastress's casebook hit a significant milestone - 350 downloads.  Readers of the casebook are located across the United States and from 19 different institutions including universities, law firms, and federal courts.

On Monday October 11, 2021, West Virginia University College of Law professors Jena Martin and Amy Cyphert were interviewed on South Korean radio program Morning Wave in Busan. In the interview, Professors Martin and Cyphert discuss the recent testimony of Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, before Congress and the potential consequences for Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The interview can be heard in full here.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Sean Tu will publish new scholarship in a forthcoming issue of the Washington University Law Review. Professor Tu co-authored the article, "What Litigators Can Teach the Patent OfficeAbout Pharmaceutical Patents", with Professor Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School.

From the abstract:

On Monday, October 4 the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Mississippi v. Tennessee. Both states have filed exceptions to the latest recommendations of Special Master. Mississippi filed suit arguing, essentially, that Memphis, Tennessee has stolen the groundwater from beneath Mississippi by placing several high volume water wells near the state line.

The litigation began in 2005, when Mississippi filed suit against the Memphis public water supplier in federal court. The district court and court of appeals both found that Mississippi needed to file suit against Tennessee and request that the United States Supreme Court divide the groundwater between the states (“equitable apportionment”). The United States, without comment, refused to hear the appeal and denied Mississippi’s motion to file a bill of complaint, in 2010.

West Virginia University College of Law professor and clinic director Nicole McConlogue's latest scholarship, Discrimination on Wheels: How Big Data Uses License Plate Surveillance to Put the Brakes on Disadvantaged Drivers, was recently featured by Jotwell, in its Technology Law section. The review, Automated Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems and ALPRs in Consumer Lending Transactions, was written by Stacy-Ann Elvy and praised Professor McConlogue's work as and "important contribution to scholarship in the consumer and technology law fields by exposing the relationship between ALPR technology and automated algorithmic decision-making in the automobile lending industry".

Professor McConlogue's article is forthcoming in volume 18 of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.