William & Mary - Law scholarship repository scores millionth download

“In July of 2010 the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School created the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository to house the intellectual output of the Law School community. The repository is an online, open access archive that includes our faculty publications, five law reviews, and numerous other documents relating to the unique history of the nation's first law school.  On May 9 the Scholarship Repository broke 1 million downloads -- less than two years after the first item was loaded. Digital repositories are being created in law schools across the country. William & Mary, like Duke, Georgetown, and Yale, is one of nearly forty law schools that use the Digital Commons platform that supports the Repository.  The William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository is one of the largest law school repositories, and to date has more downloads than any other law school using Digital Commons... The history-making 1 millionth download was an article by University of Tennessee Law Professor Thomas E. Plank titled "The Essential Elements of Judicial Independence and the Experience of Pre-Soviet Russia," published in volume 5 of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal...”