West Virginia University College of Law Librarian Nicholas Stump recently published new scholarship in Legal Reference Services Quarterly. The article is titled "Critical Explorations of Human Rights: Recent and Selected Works" and was published online in September 2019. It appears in Volume 38, Issue 3 of the journal.
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West Virginia University College of Law professor and Associate Dean for Administration Jessica Haught and Director of the Writing Center, Melanie Stimeling, recently presented a program at the International Writing Centers Association meeting in Columbus Ohio on Friday, October 18, 2019. The program was titled "Appraising the Value: Discipline-Specific Writing Centers". Haught and Stimeling discussed the services a discipline-specific writing center offers, the operation of the writing center by a writing professional, and gave advice on how to advocate for a discipline-specific writing center.
Today, West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso will speak on a panel discussing how law can address income inequality in the United States. The event is organized by the American Constitution Society in Washington, DC and takes place on Wednesday, October 23, 2019.
The event is titled "Mind the Gap: How Law Can Address Income Inequality in America". Professor Lofaso will be joined by fellow panelists Lisa Cylar Barrett, Director of Policy, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Lina Khan, Academic Fellow, Columbia Law School and Counsel, U.S. House Subcommittee on Antitru st, Commercial and Administrative Law , Ganesh Sitaraman, Chancellor Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School, and Dora Chen, Associate General Counsel, Service Employees International Union , Moderator.
West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso recently authored a report as a member of the West Virginia State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The report presents information on the civil rights impacts of collateral consequences of a criminal record in West Virginia. It discusses community reentry issues like employment, licensing, housing, and access to public benefits. The committee makes recommendations based on information gathered by public briefings and other documentation.
The full report is published online at: https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2019/09-25-Civil-Rights-Impacts-from-Collateral-Consequences-in-WV.pdf
West Virginia College of Law professor Joshua Weishart recently spoke at the 2019 Fellows Meeting for the National Education Policy Center. The meeting was held on September 28-29 in Boulder, Colorado. Professor Weishart participated in a panel discussion with other education law experts titled "Learning from the Field: Education Equity Issues on the Legal Horizon". The panel discussed emerging education equity legal issues.
