Nicholas F. Stump – The Conversation

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

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