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?"

West Virginia University College of Law professor Charles DiSalvo posted a new work to SSRN. The article, "Climate Change Disobedience", is forthcoming in the University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy. It will appear in print in 2020.

From the abstract:

West Virginia College of Law professor Jena Martin recently moderated a panel at the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, November 25, 2019. Professor Martin moderated a session titled "Voices from the Ground" during which participants offered insights into the lives and struggles of human rights defenders and community representatives and highlighted their expectations to businesses, investors and governments. Professor Martin guided discussions on achievements in defending human rights in business, common challenges, and what business, investors, and government entities can do to improve safety for human rights defenders and respect for human rights in their countries.

Read more of Professor Martin's scholarship on SSRN and find Professor Martin on Twitter @jenatmartin.

West Virginia University College of Law professor James Van Nostrand recently spoke at the Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on Energy Regulation, Technology, and Transaction Costs: Cross-Cutting Perspectives. The event was held at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.  Professor Van Nostrand was one of four speakers to present scholarship. His talk was titled "Quantifying the Resilience Value of Distributed Energy Resources".

Read more of Professor Van Nostrand's scholarship on  SelectedWorks and  SSRN.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Jesse Richardson was recently interviewed by Tiffany Lashmet on episode #68 of the Ag Law in the Field podcast. The podcast is an interview series examining issues in agricultural law. In episode 68 of the podcast, Professor Richardson joined other experts in the field to share their observations of the oral argument in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund , a Clean Water Act case, heard at the Supreme Court of the United States on November 6, 2019.