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Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller Give Virtual Presentation on Assessment for American Association of Law Libraries

West Virginia University College of Law professor Caroline Osborne and librarian Stephanie Miller recently presented a webinar sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries on the topic of assessment as decision-making tools. The webinar was part of AALL's "Coffee Talk" series and was presented on April 25, 2023.

From the program description:

Law Librarians Present at SEAALL Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia

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."

Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller Publish Scholarly Impact Article in "The Role of Citation in the Law'

Scholarship by West Virginia University College of law professor Caroline Osborne and law librarian Stephanie Miller is newly published in The Role of Citation in the Law. The volume follows the April 2021 symposium, Citation and the Law, hosted by Yale Law School. It features twenty-one of the scholarly works presented at the symposium. Professor Osborne and Ms. Miller's work, The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work, was previously published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly. It was also awarded AALL ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award in 2021.

From the abstract:

Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller Win Outstanding Article Award

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller won the Outstanding Article Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section for their article: "The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work". The article was published in volume 39 of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal.

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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.