West Virginia College of Law Professor Caroline Osborne and librarian Stephanie Miller recently spoke at the Yale Virtual Symposium on Citation held on April 22-23, 2021. The symposium featured scholarship of law librarians and faculty on range of issues such citation analysis, scholarly impact metrics, link rot, and other empirical research in the use of citations. The event was sponsored by Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, The Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School, AALL ALL-SIS Committee on Research and Scholarship, The Boulder Conference, and Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

Professor Osborne and Ms. Miller presented their paper, "The Scholarly Matrix Impact: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of A Scholar’s Work", which has been recently published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.  All papers presented at the symposium will be published in a forthcoming volume from the Hein Company.

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Joshua Weishart recently presented at the National Education Finance Academy Annual Conference. The conference was held virtually on April 6-9, 2021. Professor Weishart's session was titled "IEPs for All: Democratic, Equitable, & Respectful Remedy".

From the program:

The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 9, Issue 1 on April 13, 2021. The following authors were featured for their scholarship recently published to SSRN:

Shine Tu, Patent Examination and Examiner Interviews.

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Sean Tu was recently a featured speaker at the Intellectual Property Law Spring Seminar 2021 hosted by the Intellectual Property Section of the Michigan State Bar and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education. On March 25, 2021, Professor Tu presented "Patenting Fast and Slow: How Examiners Speed Up or Delay Prosecution". Professor Tu presented among other experts in IP law including scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom and members of the bench and bar.

Find Professor Tu's related scholarship in Patent Law on SSRN.

West Virginia College of Law Professor Jesse Richardson recently spoke on a webinar panel for the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. The webinar, held on March 19, 2021, was hosted by the SEER Water Resources Committee. Panelists discussed the effects of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the sufficiency of water supply, water management, and water supply protection. Cases included: County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (federal jurisdiction over groundwater), Texas v. New Mexico and Florida v. Georgia (withdrawals by one state affecting flows relied upon by the neighboring downstream state), and Mississippi v. Tennessee (pumping groundwater from an aquifer serving an adjoining state).

Find more of Professor Richardson's scholarship in the WVU Research Repository.