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Nicholas F. Stump

Faculty Member, George R. Farmer Jr., Law Library, West Virginia University

Nicholas F. Stump is a Faculty Member and Head of Reference and Access Services of the George R. Farmer Jr., Law Library at West Virginia University College of Law. He teaches in the legal research curriculum with subject expertise in energy and environmental legal research. His scholarship focuses on environmental law, critical legal theory, law and social movements, law and political economy, and Appalachian and rural studies.

Experience

  • 2012–present
    Faculty Member of George R. Farmer Jr., Law Library, West Virginia University College of Law

Education

  • 2014 
    University of Tennessee , M.S.I.S.
  • 2011 
    West Virginia University College of Law , J.D.

Publications

  • 2021
    REMAKING APPALACHIA: ECOSOCIALISM, ECOFEMINISM, AND LAW, WVU Press
  • 2021
    "Non-Reformist Reforms" in Radical Social Change: A Critical Legal Research Exploration, Boston. U. L. Rev. Online (forthcoming)
  • 2021
    Critical Legal Research and Contemporary Crises: Climate Change, COVID-19, and the Mass Black Lives Matter Uprising, Unbound: Harv. J. Legal Left (forthcoming)
  • 2018
    De-Essentializing Appalachia: Transformative Socio-Legal Change Requires Unmasking Regional Myths, 120 W.Va. L. Rev. 823
  • 2017
    Mountain Resistance: Appalachian Civil Disobedience in Critical Legal Research Modeled Law Reform, 41 U.C. Davis Envlt. L. & Pol'y J. 69
  • 2017
    Environmental Human Rights in the Trump Era: Modes of Resistance and Reform, Oxford Human Rights Hub
  • 2016
    Appalachia in Crisis: A Human Rights Approach to Environmental Justice in the U.S., Oxford Human Rights Hub
  • 2016
    Food Deserts in Appalachia: A Socioeconomic Ill and Opportunities for Reform, Oxford Human Rights Hub
  • 2015
    Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies as a Spark for Law Reform in Appalachia, 23 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 573