The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 9, Issue 3 on October 27, 2021. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:
Caroline Osborne, Copyright, Pandemics, and Emergencies: When Desperate Times Dictate Contextual Responses.
The scholarship of West Virginia University College of Law faculty members is frequently cited as authority in numerous legal disciplines. The following is a list of faculty authored works cited this year and made available on Westlaw Edge between July 1 and September 30, 2021.
Valarie Blake
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 Jesse Richardson recently posted new scholarship to SSRN. The paper is titled "Studying the impacts of environmental amenities and hazards with nationwideproperty data: best data practices for interpretable and reproducible analyses" and is co-authored by academics at ten universities across the country with expertise in property data analysis.
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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.
