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West Virginia University College of Law librarian Nicholas Stump recently presented a webinar hosted by the Clinical Legal Education Association as part of its "Teaching Justice Webinar Series."  Mr. Stump was joined by co-presenters Priya Baskaran (American University Washington College of Law), Latia Ward (University of Virginia School of Law), and Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale Law).  The program is titled "Building on Teaching Critical Legal Research with Law Librarians " and was presented live on October 11, 2023.

West Virginia University College of Law librarian Nicholas Stump recently spoke at two different conferences on the topic of critical legal research. On July 13, 2022, Mr. Stump presented at the Global Meeting on Law & Society. This event is hosted by the Law & Society Association approximately every five years.  Mr. Stump spoke on a panel titled "Sites of Authority and Contestation in Global Law and Political Economy", giving a talk titled "An Ecosocialist and Critical Legal Research Approach."

On July 18, 2022, Mr. Stump presented "Critical Legal Research: Theory and Practice" at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting as part of a program titled "Critical Race Theory in Law Librarianship."  

West Virginia College of Law Librarian Nicholas Stump has recently published new schalarship in the Boston College Law Review Online. The essay is titled “Non-Reformist Reforms” in Radical Social Change: A Critical Legal Research Exploration and was presented as part of an online symposium, "Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave", hosted by the journal. The symposium and panel honors Professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic and their scholarship in Critical Race Theory.

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