During April 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 13,567 new full-text downloads of the 5,766 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,121 different institutions across 144 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 493,769.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,702 times in April 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

West Virginia University College of Law professor and director of the Law Library Caroline Osborne is the 2023 recipient of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship. This national award recognizes leaders in law librarianship who demonstrate continued efforts to improve and advance the profession. The Hicks Award was established in 2000 and is awarded annually by the Academic Law Libraries SIS of the American Association of Law Libraries. Professor Osborne joins an impressive list of distinguished librarians, scholars, and teachers. This much-deserved award acknowledges her accomplishments and commitment to innovation in law librarianship.

Find Professor Osborne's scholarship on SSRN and on her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.

On April 26, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law professor and director of the law library, Caroline Osborne, was a featured speaker in the Lillian Goldman Law Library Speaker Series at Yale Law School. Professor Osborne spoke about scholarly impact metrics as a tool to develop a scholar's personal narrative and to advance a research agenda. Her program was titled "The Scholar's Narrative: Creating a Narrative Using Impact Metrics."

During March 2023, the contents of the    WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 15,424 new full-text downloads of the 5,747 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,326 different institutions across 169 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 476,159.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,308 times in March 2023. The most downloaded articles from the   faculty scholarship collection last month are:

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  and made available on Westlaw Precision between October 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022

Robert Bastress Jr.