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This Article explores intertwined contemporary crises via the Critical Legal Research framework (“CLR”), as initially developed by the critical legal ...

The balance between free speech and access to courts in defamation tort actions is fraught with public policy concerns. On ...

The U.S. environmental law regime has proven a wholly inadequate paradigm. This Chapter details the profound ecological damage Appalachia has ...

The contemporary Critical Legal Research (CLR) project exhibits much diverse and vital thought. However, this Essay draws, in particular, on ...

The author provides an overview of recent critical works on human rights that constitute important contributions to the literature and ...

John Rawls authored the modern seminal work on civil disobedience in A Theory of Justice. Like all Rawlsian political theory, ...

The nascent “critical legal research” movement applies the constellation of critical theory to the American legal research regime. Work in ...

Civil disobedience has long been a core dimension in the struggles against the ravages of the coal, oil, and natural ...

In a new feature for the blog, we’re asking WVU Press authors to suggest books, posts, and articles worth reading. ...

In a long-awaited victory, the UN Human Rights Council recently recognised, for the first time, that having a healthy environment ...

Central Appalachia, a region encompassing parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, often is characterized as a “national sacrifice ...

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a 1988 Reagan appointee, will leave behind a mixed environmental law legacy. Best known to ...

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a 303-mile U.S. interstate project currently under construction that would transport fracked natural gas ...

John H. Knox, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, recently issued a final report to the ...

Do we have a fundamental right to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food? The idea of ...

The Trump Administration’s gender-related policies have been characterized by some as a “war against women.” An analysis of these policies—as ...

The ecological ramifications of the Trump administration may well prove catastrophic. Climate change denial and problematic fossil fuel positions featured ...

Food deserts constitute a public health phenomenon in which communities lack sufficient access to nutritious whole foods.  The U.S. Appalachian ...

The natural resource extraction industry has long wrought environmental, social, and economic devastation in Appalachia—a U.S. region historically defined by ...

You’re a trial attorney who tends to settle your cases. Or maybe you’re a solo practitioner who generally practices before ...