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Faculty Scholarship News: January 8, 2020

Assistant Dean Ernie Walton’s article on expungement legislation for trafficking victims in Virginia entitled “PROTECTING SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS THROUGH EXPUNGEMENT AND VACATUR STATUTES: WILL VIRGINIA JOIN THE REST OF THE NATION?" which can be downloaded at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3409345, was referenced in the Virginian Pilot, where he was quoted as well. See it at https://www.pilotonline.com/government/virginia/vp-nw-human-trafficking-expungement-bill-20200105-vmvr5lgcmnep7fqiikxch5kjg4-story.html.


Law Librarian Audrey Lynn’s article, Let’s (Not) Make This Work! Why Stare Decisis Workability Should Be a Sword but Not a Shield, 31 Regent. U.L. Rev. 91 (2018), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3161718, which can be downloaded, has been cited as a reference source in Michie's Jurisprudence (17 M.J. Stare Decisis sec. 1; see footnote--the very last citation and the only one to Regent University Law Review in that section).

Adjunct Brian Dennison’s article entitled, “The Resonance of Colonial Era Customary Codes in Contemporary Uganda,” is now available for download on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3507853. 

Lexington Books featured Professor Lynne Marie Kohm with Kathleen Akers, Law and Economics in Jane Austen, at the Allied Social Science Associations Conference (ASSA) which was held last week, January 3-5, 2020, in San Diego, California.  

Professor Ben Madison, Jeff Brauch, Craig Stern, Natt Gantt, Bruce Cameron, and Professor Kohm were notified for Top 10% download impact on SSRN. 

Professor James Duane has hit the 15,000 download mark in scholarly impact, a tremendous feat individually and for our law school.

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