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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 librarians Nicholas Stump and Stephanie Miller and Director of the Law Library, Professor Caroline Osborne, presented in multiple sessions at annual meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL). The meeting took place in Richmond, Virginia on March 9-11, 2023.

Professor Osborne and librarian Stephanie Miller presented "The Evolution of the Flipped Classroom: Lessons Learned Through a Pandemic."

West Virginia University College of Law Librarian Nicholas Stump published a new blog post for the Law & Political Economy (LPE) Project. The post, "Rural Civil Disobedience and Fossil Capital: Toward Radical Futures", closes a symposium on the topic of the LEP of Rural America. It was published on March 22, 2023.

Find more of Mr. Stump's scholarship on  SSRN and his  SelectedWorks profile.

West Virginia University College of Law Librarian  Nicholas Stump has recently published new scholarship in the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review . The article is titled  “COVID, Climate Change, and Transformative Social Justice: A Critical Legal Research Exploration and it appears in volume 47 of the journal.

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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."