Professor Amy Cyphert Cited by United States District Court, D. New Mexico in U.S. v. Gonzales

West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert was recently cited by the United States District Court for New Mexico. The Court cited Professor Cyphert's article, Reprogramming Recidivism: The First Step Act and Algorithmic Prediction of Risk , 51 Seton Hall L. Rev. 331 (2020) for its discussion of the First Step Act and PATTERN in U.S. v. Gonzales.

From the abstract of Reprogramming Recidivism: The First Step Act and Algorithmic Prediction of Risk :

Professor Valarie Blake Contributes to Bill of Health Blog at Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Valarie Blake recently contributed to the Bill of Health blog. The blog is published by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law and covers news, commentary, and scholarship in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. Professor Blake's post was published on May 11, 2021 and is titled: "Now is the Time for a Sex-Based Civil Rights Movement in Health Care."

Find more of Professor Blake's scholarship on SSRN.

Research Repository Update: May 2021

During May 2021, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in The Research Repository @ WVU had 9.059 new full-text downloads of the 5,628 total works archived in our collections. New readers came from 719 different institutions across 128 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law to 217,932.

The most downloaded faculty scholarship in May 2021 were: