West Virginia University College of Law professor Valarie Blake presented at the Utah Law Review Symposium on Friday, November 30, 2018. The symposium is titled "The Opioid Crisis: Paths Forward to Mitigate Regulatory Failure". The symposium was designed to examine failures of the pharmaceutical market, inadequate regulatory responses, and possible solutions. Scholars discussed the impact of regulation from the national and state level, the impact of addiction on communities, and how public health research should inform future policy and regulation decisions.

Professor Blake participated in a panel discussion, "State Regulation: Failures and Paths Moving Forward".

West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin presented research at the Global Business and Human Rights Research Workshop on November 29, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop was organized by the BHRights Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching on Business and Human Rights .

Professor Martin presented research titled "Creating a Space to Assess: Examining Community Engagement in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives related to a Business and Human Rights Framework".

West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert authored a guest post on the WV Ed Law Blog, published on November 26, 2018. The blog is published by WVU Law professor Joshua Weishart.

In the post titled Some of DeVos’s New Rules on College Sexual Misconduct Not So New in West Virginia, Professor Cyphert discusses proposed regulations from the U.S. Department of Education on Title IX regarding how colleges and universities respond to allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus.

WVU Law professor James Van Nostrand was interviewed by Ohio Valley ReSource for a program that aired on WOUB.

Read the article, titled "Shading Out Solar: State Policies in Ohio Valley Dim Future of Energy Jobs", and listen to the interview:

WVU Law professor Valena Beety co-edited a new book titled The Wrongful Convictions Reader contributes to a new text published by Wolters Kluwer with Georgia State law professor Russell D. Covey.  The book is published by Carolina Academic Press.

The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel.