Nicholas F. Stump

Publications

• Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law (2021) (peer-reviewed book) (Weatherford Award Finalist) 

• Book Launch Transcript, Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law: A Conversation With Author Nicholas F. Stump and Professor Priya Baskaran , 69 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 106 (2021)

• Ecosocialism, Degrowth, and Global South Thought: Critical Legal Transformations, 49 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 367 (2025) (featured in Legal Theory Blog)
  
• Labor and Environment Entwined: A Radical Green New Deal and Just Transition in Appalachia , 127 W. Va. L. Rev. 723 (2025) (co-authored)
• COVID, Climate Change, and Transformative Social Justice: A Critical Legal Research Exploration , 47 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 147 (2022) (featured in Poverty Law for Professors and Legal Academics)
• “Non-Reformist Reforms” in Radical Social Change: A Critical Legal Research Exploration , 101 Boston U. L. Rev. Online 6 (2021) 
• Free Speech in the Balance: Judicial Sanctions and Frivolous SLAPP Suits , 54 Loyola Los Angeles L. Rev. 2, (2021) (co-authored)
• 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))

Education

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