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Professor Kirsha Trychta Speaks on Themis NextGen Bar Panel

On Thursday, September 14, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law Professor and Director of the Academic Excellence Center Kirsha Trychta joined a panel of academic excellence and bar success experts to discuss the latest developments in the NextGen bar exam. The program was titled "NextGen Examined" and was hosted by Themis Bar Review as a webinar.

A recording of the webinar is available from Themis Bar Review review: register here to view.

WVU Law at SEALS, Thursday, July 27, 2023

This week, WVU Law faculty members are presenting and discussing their scholarship at the 2023 SEALS Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, Florida. On Thursday, July 27, 2023, Professor Kirsha Trychta participated in a discussion group at the conference.

Professor Trychta was a discussant at a Newer Law Professor's Workshop titled "Formative Feedback in Theory and Practice" moderated by Professor Olympia Duhart of Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law.

Professor Kirsha Trychta Presents at Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors' Rights Seminar

On October 25, 2022 West Virginia University College of Law professor Kirsha Trychta spoke at a Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors' Rights Seminar on the WVU campus. The event was sponsored by Omega Phi Alpha. Speakers addressed "advocacy for survivors and the history behind this movement, community organizing, prevention in an intersectional and equitable way, societal level risk and protective factors of Gender Based Violence and Interpersonal violence".

Professor Trychta presentation focused on the intersection of sexual violence and the law. Specifically, how a case proceeds through the criminal justice system, balancing the rights of the complainant and the rights of the accused.