Nicholas F. Stump

Education

• M.S.I.S., University of Tennessee, 2014
• J.D., West Virginia University College of Law, 2011
• B.A., West Virginia University, 2008

Publications

Books

• Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law , (2021), (Weatherford Award Finalist) (book launch transcript published in UCLA Law Review Discourse)

Articles & Essays

• Ecosocialism, Degrowth, and Global South Thought: Critical Legal Transformations, 49 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025) (featured in Poverty Law)
• COVID, Climate Change, and Transformative Social Justice: A Critical Legal Research Exploration , 47 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 147 (2022)
• “Non-Reformist Reforms” in Radical Social Change: A Critical Legal Research Exploration , 101 Boston U. L. Rev. Online 6 (2021) (symposium)
• Free Speech in the Balance: Judicial Sanctions and Frivolous SLAPP Suits , 54 Loyola Los Angeles L. Rev. 2, (2021) (co-authored)
• Critical Explorations of Human Rights: Recent and Selected Works , 38 Legal Reference Services Q. 115 (2019)
• De-Essentializing Appalachia: Transformative Socio-Legal Change Requires Unmasking Regional Myths , 120 W. Va. L. Rev. 823 (2018) (symposium) (co-authored) (adapted as cover story Unmasking the Appalachian Myth: Can We Bring About Transformative Change in Appalachia? in WVU Law Magazine)
• Mountain Resistance: Appalachian Civil Disobedience in Critical Legal Research Modeled Law Reform , 41 Environs: Envtl. L. & Pol'y J. 69 (2017) (featured in Legal Theory Blog)
• 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 (2015) (excerpted in Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law in Society (Francisco Valdes, Steven W. Bender, and Jennifer Hill, eds.) (2021))

Selected Other Publications

• Legal Research for Public Interest Lawyering: An ALR Course Module (RIPS Law Librarian Blog May 2023)
• Rural Civil Disobedience and Fossil Capital: Toward Radical Futures (Law & Political Economy Blog, Mar. 2023)
• UN Council Resolution on Human Right to Healthy Environment: Implications for US Grassroots-Led Non-Reformist Reforms, (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Jan. 2022)
• Democratic Leadership and Transformations of Academic Law Libraries, (American Association of Law Libraries ALL-SIS Newsletter, Vol. 41, Issue 2, 2022)
• Book Review: Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries, 50 Int. J. Legal Info. 1-2 (2022)
• Environmental Law Has Failed. Can Transformative Ecological Change Begin in Appalachia?, The Rural Rev. (2021)
• Justice Kennedy’s Mixed Environmental Legacy Turns Tragic, (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Sep. 2018)
• Legal Actions Against Mountain Valley Pipeline Underscore Grassroots Activism’s Importance, (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Aug. 2018)
• U.N. Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment: A Catalyst for Grassroots-Centered U.S. Reform? , (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Apr. 2018)
• Is a Healthy Environment a Human Right? Testing the Idea in Appalachia, The Conversation (Jul., 2017); republished in Huffington Post (Jul. 2017)
• Food Deserts in Appalachia: A Socioeconomic Ill and Opportunities for Reform, Oxford Human Rights Hub  (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Nov. 2016)
• The Future of Academic Law Librarianship, Lib. J. Peer to Peer Rev. (2015) (co-authored)

Selected Professional Presentations

• "Teaching to the Platform: Critical and DEI Perspectives," Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries, Lexington (2024) (panel co-organizer)
• "The Biases of Legal Generative AI," Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries, Lexington (2024)
• "Building on Teaching Critical Legal Research," Clinical Legal Education Association Teaching Justice Webinar Series (2023)
• “Designing a Critical or Social Justice Module in a Legal Research Course,” Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries, Richmond (2023) (panel co-organizer)
• “Sites of Authority and Contestation in Global Law and Political Economy,” Law & Society Association (2022)
• “Critical Race Theory in Law Librarianship,” American Association of Law Libraries (2022)
• “Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave (A Panel Honoring Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic),” American Association of Law Schools, (2021)
• “Critical Legal Research in the Law School Classroom,” AALL Research Crits Caucus (2020)
• “Democracy, Social Justice, and the November 2020 Election,” ClassCrits (2020)
• “Partnership Opportunities to Enhance Access to Justice” Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries, Hot Springs (2019) ( panel co-organizer )
• "Academic Law Libraries: Better Serving the State and Region," West Virginia Libraries Association (2017)
• "Civil Disobedience in Critical Legal Research Modeled Law Reform," Boulder Conference on Legal Information: Teaching and Scholarship (2016)