West Virginia University law professor Joshua Weishart will speak at the University of Arkansas Law Review Symposium tomorrow, November 2, 2018.   The symposium is titled "Hiding in Plain Sight: What Education Reform Needs". Professor Weishart will participate in the panel, "The New Impediment to School Reform." 

On Friday, November 2, 2018, WVU Law Professor Valarie Blake will speak at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT.  Professor Blake is participating in a symposium titled "The Law and Policy of AI, Robotics, and Telemedicine in Health Care".  The symposium is jointly hosted by the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy and the Information Society Project.

From the symposium website:
The interdisciplinary roundtable will take on a broad a range of questions at the intersection of medicine, robotics, and artificial intelligence, including the regulatory challenges of telemedicine, the privacy implications of these technological developments, evolving liability regimes for modern medical technologies, the impact of these challenges on health care disparities, costs and the doctor-patient relationships, and the political and financial realities of these advances in health science.

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Valarie Blake will speak today at the Indiana Health Law Review Symposium: The Intersection of Immigration Law and Health Policy .

Professor Blake will participate in a panel with other human rights experts to talk specifically about civil rights and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and how it expands anti-discrimination protections for immigrants in health care.

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Priya Baskaran will present at the "The Urgency of Poverty" Symposium at the University of Tennessee College of Law on Thursday, October 25, 2018.

Professor Baskaran coordinated the symposium which is hosted by the College of Law and the Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice.  The symposium, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign, will explore the transactional lawyer’s role in economic justice.  Professor Baskaran will present in a panel discussion titled "Infrastructure and Economic Development" with Katherine Garvey (West Virginia University College of Law) and Camille Pannu (UC Davis College of Law).

Melanie Stimeling, Director of the Writing Center at West Virginia University College of Law, presented at the International Writing Center Association Annual Conference on Saturday, October 13, 2018.

Professor Stimeling's roundtable discussion was titled "Activating Identities: What Does it Mean to be a Citizen of Disciplinary Writing Centers?" Participants discussed what is means to be an "active citizen" in disciplinary writing centers and how that identity changes, alters, or adapts their work.