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Professor Tu Hosts Workshop on AI and Patents

On June 25, 2021, West Virginia College of Law Professor Sean Tu hosted AI and Patents Workshop @ ICAIL 2021 with co-hosts Dean Alderucci and Jerry Ma. The workshop was offered as part of the program at the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 2021. Professor Tu moderated the programs offered in track two of the workshop on the subject of patenting AI technology.

Videos from the workshop are available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwQLYuVxtUfWqyN1htHmqFg

WVU College of Law SSRN Paper Series Publishes Volume 8, Issue 2

The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 8, Issue 2 on April 30, 2020. The following authors were featured for their scholarship recently published to SSRN:

Shine Tu, Free Speech in the Balance: Judicial Sanctions and Frivolous SLAPP Suits (with Nicholas Stump), Patenting Fast and Slow: Examiner and Applicant Use of Prior Art, and Patenting Fast and Slow: Examiner Rejections and Applicant Traversals to Non-Prior Art Rejections.

Professor Shine Tu and Librarian Nicholas Stump to Publish New Work in Loyola Los Angeles Law Review

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Shine Tu and librarian Nicholas Stump co-authered a new article recently accepted for publication to Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. The article, " Free Speech in the Balance: Judicial Sanctions and Frivolous SLAPP Suits", will appear in volume 54 of the journal.

From the abstract:

WVU Law Faculty Participate in Law Review Education Law Symposium

West Virginia University School of Law faculty members will participate in the West Virginia Law Review's annual symposium to be held today, Thursday, February 21 and tomorrow Friday, February 22, 2019. The Education Law Symposium will explore two landmark education law decisions - Pauley v. Kelly and the Recht Decision. Other symposium topics include the 2018 teacher strikes; recent trends in state education rights litigation; the future for equity in education; and education law in higher learning.

Professors Joshua Weishart, Shine Tu, and Dean Gregory Bowman will all participate as panelists or panel moderators.

WVU College of Law SSRN Paper Series Publishes Volume 7, Issue 1

The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 7, Issue 1 on January 14, 2019. The following authors were featured for their scholarship recently published to SSRN:

Joshua Fershée, The End of Responsible Growth and Governance?: The Risks Posed by Social Enterprise Enabling Statutes and the Demise of Director Primacy