The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 9, Issue 2 on June 29, 2021. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:
Alison Peck, Standard Oil, Consolidation Coal, and the Roots of the Resource Curse in West Virginia.
West Virginia University College of Law professor Jesse Richardson was recently interviewed by Tiffany Lashmet on Ag Law in the Field. The podcast is an interview series examining issues in agricultural law. In episode 107 of the podcast, Professor Richardson discusses the interstate water wars at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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 :
West Virginia University College of Law Professor Sean Tu has contributed to a newly published open access Patent Law casebook. Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook is available to download from SSRN and from LawCarta.com. Professor Tu is a chapter editor for the text.
From the editors:
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."
