West Virginia University College of Law Professor Shine Tu and librarian Nicholas Stump co-authered a new article recently accepted for publication to Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. The article, " Free Speech in the Balance: Judicial Sanctions and Frivolous SLAPP Suits", will appear in volume 54 of the journal.
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On Monday, April 6, 2020, Professor Caroline Osborne and co-author Stephanie Miller presented new scholarship as part of the UNC KRELL Scholarship Series. The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library Scholarship Series is a workshop opportunity designed to foster scholarship to the profession and careers of law librarians. The workshop series is coordinated by Anne Klinefelter, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library ant UNC School of Law. The paper, The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create and Informed Story of a Scholar's Work was presented virtually to a group of 11 other scholars and law librarians.
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On Thursday, March 5, 2020, West Virginia University College of Law professor Shine Tu joined other patent law experts in a webinar discussion hosted by IPWatchdog. The experts discussed types of prior art rejections by fast and slow patent examiners, how the current count system can motivate examiners to either delay or expedite patent prosecution, and how different patent examination strategies may impact patent quality.
Professor Tu has recently posted two new papers to SSRN on related topics: Patenting Fast and Slow: Examiner and Applicant Use of Prior Art and Patenting Fast and Slow: Examiner Rejections and Applicant Traversals to Non-Prior Art Rejections.
West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert was cited last week by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The Court cited Professor Cyphert's article, Prisoners of Fate: The Challenges of Creating Change for Children of Incarcerated Parents , 77 Md L. Rev. 285 (2018), in support of its sentencing decision in United States v. Parra.
From the abstract of Prisoners of Fate: The Challenges of Creating Change for Children of Incarcerated Parents :
West Virginia University College of Law professor Charles DiSalvo is a featured scholar this week at "Truth and Nonviolence in Post-Truth Times: An International Conference Mohandas Gandhi" . The conference is hosted at UCLA and takes place from January 30 to February 2, 2020. The conference brings together the world's leading scholars on Gandhi and nonviolent resistance to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Professor DiSalvo will speak on Sunday, February 2nd. His talk is titled "Advocate Gandhi: Race, Role, and Redemption?"
