tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20012704454183535302024-03-13T14:26:31.285-07:00Scholars@UNLVLawE-Newsletter of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of LawWilliam S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-16629916538931573492013-04-08T11:43:00.000-07:002013-04-08T11:43:23.404-07:00David Tanenhaus Educates on Legal History, Juvenile Justice through Conferences, Scholarly Work, and Speaking Engagements <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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David Tanenhaus is starting
a new chapter in his career, but he’s hitting the ground running with
conferences, speaking engagements, teaching, and scholarship. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I see this as a new chapter
in my career,” said Tanenhaus, <span style="color: #262626;">Professor and Chair of
the UNLV History Department and </span>James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law. “I just concluded an eight-year editorship of <i>Law & History Review</i>, the leading
journal in the field, where I devoted a lot of time and energy. Now I’m focusing
more attention on my scholarly agenda.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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On
Feb. 21, Tanenhaus hosted the ninth annual Philip Pro Lectureship, which drew more
than 60 attendees. The event featured Bancroft award-winning author and Harvard
Professor of Law and Professor of History Tomiko Brown-Nagin, who presented her
book, <i>Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the
Long History of the Civil Rights Movement</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I
spent two weeks in my course in the fall on the book. It’s very exciting for
students to hear directly from the author,” said Tanenhaus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In
2005, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Gordon Wood inaugurated the Philip Pro
Lectureship in Legal History at the Boyd School of Law. The series annually
brings an internationally prominent scholar to UNLV to deliver a public
lecture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since the Philip Pro Lectureship, Tanenhaus has
turned his attention to planning a conference focused on choosing the future
for American juvenile justice. He, along with Frank Zimring, William G. Simon Professor
of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Law, will
host the two-day conference on April 12 and 13. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Before
the event, I heard from a range of people, some from outside the state, who
said they were interested in attending – a documentary filmmaker, public
defenders, juvenile advocates,” said Tanenhaus. “When there’s a big Supreme
Court decision, like 2012’s <i>Miller v.
Alabama</i>, it attracts a lot of interest to the field. This has turned out to
be a big year for juvenile justice.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sessions
will focus on important reform issues that are relatively novel to traditional
juvenile justice, yet must be addressed by policymakers in the near future.
They include: disconnecting the school-to-prison pipeline, the relationship
between immigration policy and juvenile justice, the significance of brain
science for youth policy, the behavioral and legal issues involving juvenile
sex offenders, and the disclosure of juvenile records. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The conference will bring together prominent
scholars to look at the 21<sup>st</sup> juvenile justice system. It’s very
exciting to host the conference,” said Tanenhaus, who will present an overview
of the history of juvenile justice reform at the conference. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
conference presenters’ papers will be published in a volume that Tanenhaus and
Zimring are editing for <i>Youth, Crime, and
Justice</i>, their new book series with New York University Press. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Our
goal for the series is to create a center for the interdisciplinary field of
juvenile justice,” said Tanenhaus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
series aims
to become a central repository of studies that span the range of social,
behavioral and policy sciences about youth development and governmental efforts
to foster adolescent development yet control youth crime.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition to hosting
conferences, Tanenhaus this semester is teaching an upper division
undergraduate survey of American Constitutional History as well as a graduate
seminar in American legal history. He has or is scheduled to make research presentations
at the University of Illinois, Whittier Law School, and Texas Tech.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s
important to draw on past experiences because you can use history to make
better decisions about policymaking,” Tanenhaus said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rebecca Nathanson, Ph.D. has
one goal in mind: make sure children can tell their story in court. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The reality is, many people
don’t think kids belong in court, but it’s always been important to me for kids
to be able to tell their story in court,” said the James E. Rogers Professor of
Education and Law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Kids’ Court School, established in 2002 by Nathanson, was created to help educate children about the
courtroom process, reduce their anxiety before legal proceedings, and help
facilitate their ability to tell their story in court. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
program has garnered national recognition as a model for children’s courtroom
education. In 2012, it won Harvard University’s Bright Ideas award, a
recognition given to programs that can be models for improving government at
different levels. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“My career has focused on
examining the capabilities and limitations of children, with a specific
interest in kids with disabilities,” said Professor Nathanson. “I began this as
a Research Fellow at UCLA Medical School, and over the years I’ve developed
various strategies to enhance the completeness and accuracy of children’s
reports. It is from this work that the
Kids’ Court School evolved, a program I take great pride in since it has the
potential of helping so many children and youth.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The program’s curriculum is
not only evidence-based but standardized, so that parties on all sides of a
case know what participants are being taught. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Research conducted in June
by Nathanson shows that the Kids’ Court School does indeed reduce children’s
level of stress. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“This research is exciting
because it’s helping instill more confidence in kids. It could potentially
affect the way people look at kids in the legal system,” said Nathanson. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since December, Nathanson
has turned her attention to research exploring attorneys’ and guardians’
perceptions of Kids’ Court School. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We think parents who are
hesitant to have their kids testify would be more comfortable if they perceived
their kids’ anxiety as lessened,” said Nathanson. “The second implication of
our research is if attorneys perceive their clients’ anxiety as less, it may
increase their confidence in their clients’ ability to testify in court. Many attorneys
are hesitant about putting kids on the stand, but it’s important that they do.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kids’ Court School was
developed originally for child witnesses, but the curriculum more recently has
been expanded to help juvenile delinquents. Two months ago, Nathanson and her
team began collecting data on the efficacy of this component of the Kids’ Court
School.</div>
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“The juvenile system has
been sending to us juveniles who are about to stand trial. Because of the need
to remediate juvenile competency in this community and country, we began
developing an additional curriculum for kids involved in delinquency
proceedings,” Nathanson said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soon, she will undertake
research to determine attorneys’ and judges’ perceptions of the credibility of
children who go through the Kids’ Court School. In the near future, she will start
another study to determine if juveniles have the ability to stand trial, or if
developmental issues – problem-solving or decision-making skills – preclude
that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We want to explore if the
development of such processes, which typically develop in later adolescence,
can be accelerated through the Kids’ Court School,” Nathanson said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since opening in 2002, more
than 740 children have participated in the Kids’ Court School. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“It gives me great pride that
many of these kids who wouldn’t have had a voice, did,” Nathanson said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While her frequent travels
and speaking engagements may seem taxing, Francine Lipman doesn’t mind them at
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“As a tax law professor researching,
writing, and working with low-income taxpayers, there is always more work to be
done,” said the William S. Boyd Professor of Law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition to being a tax
law expert at the Boyd School of Law, Lipman is an elected member of the American Law
Institute and a vice chair and editor for the Section of Taxation of the
American Bar Association (ABA). She was
recently elected to the American College of Tax Counsel, an organization for experienced
tax attorneys who seek to improve the operation of the country’s tax systems.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not surprisingly because it
is tax season, the spring semester is a busy time of the year for Lipman. She teaches an Advanced Federal Income Tax Law
seminar and participates in many tax outreach events and conferences. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lipman attended the ABA,
Section of Taxation 2013 Midyear Meeting in January in Orlando, Fla., where she
presented on tax issues facing immigrants, focusing on H-2A and H-2B visa
holders who are temporarily working in the United States. In mid-March, she
spoke on tax issues facing same-sex married couples and registered domestic
partners in Irvine, Calif. At Pepperdine University School of Law Lipman presented
her forthcoming essay at a symposium titled Tax Advice for the Second Obama
Administration. Coinciding with inauguration weekend, the symposium featured
panel discussions with a variety of prominent and well-know scholars and
practitioners who discussed how the tax code may (or may not) change during the
next four years. The conference was
webcast to more than 600 online viewers.
Lipman spoke on a panel titled “Occupy the Tax Code: The Buffett Rule,
the 1%, and the Fairness/Growth Divide.” The presentation "<i>Access to Tax <s>In</s>Justice</i>" will be published as an essay in the spring 2013 issue of the <i>Pepperdine Law Review</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The essay focuses on the
challenges lower-income taxpayers have accessing social benefits provided
through the income tax system. Because the federal income tax system is an
established, far-reaching, and cost effective institution, members of Congress
are using it increasingly to deliver a myriad of social benefits through
a variety of tax provisions, including refundable tax credits,” Lipman said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Examples of refundable
credits include an adoption credit; the First-Time Homebuyer Credit; and the
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the largest and most successful anti-poverty
program for working families. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The EITC has a meaningful
economic stimulant effect on communities with large populations of working lower-income
families. Annual tax refunds put
critical dollars in the hands of a working family and they spend it for needed goods
and services often in their own neighborhoods. The EITC is a bipartisan social
benefit program introduced by then-Governor Ronald Reagan that is tied to work.
It provides an offset to regressive Social Security taxes as well as an
earnings subsidy for working families with children,” Lipman said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While the EITC has many
benefits, Lipman said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disproportionately
audits EITC tax returns pushing the capacity of lower-income working families to
deal with a revenue collection rather than a social benefit agency.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The IRS is the United States’ revenue
collection agency collecting 96% of all government revenues,” Lipman said. “Accordingly,
IRS personnel have been trained as collection agents rather than as social
benefits counselors. However, if Congress continues to charge the IRS with the
delivery of social benefits, we need to train personnel for this purpose. Congress has appropriated the resources to help working families who
are in critical need of these benefits. So we should provide a delivery system
that is consistent with getting these benefits to targeted families.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Another problem is the
current design of the EITC as a lump sum annual tax refund. The large cash refund makes taxpayers
vulnerable to unscrupulous tax preparers and lenders. Families who struggle
with cash flow and lack basic banking resources and financial planning skills
end up with oppressive bills and interest charges,” Lipman said. “Fortunately, law students at Boyd School of
Law offer free tax preparation and electronic filing for many of these families
during tax season through a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program in
partnership with the IRS. This is a great example of how the law can pay meaningful
dividends for law students, and the individuals and communities it serves.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law alumnus Elias P. George ‘11
has recently published an article that has drawn the attention of the academic
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His article, <i>“</i>Using
Game Theory and Contractarianism to Reform Corporate Governance: Why
Shareholders Should Seek Disincentive Schemes in Executive Compensation Plans,”
was published in the May 2012 installment of the <i>Golden Gate University Law Review. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The article focuses on why relying heavily on incentives
without providing sufficient deterrents has not been a successful approach to
preventing corporate directors and officers from harming their companies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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George said that his economics background is what steered
him toward writing this paper.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Seeing the collapse in the market, I was curious to find
out what Congress, the courts, or the private sector could implement to make corporate
managers more accountable [to shareholders],” George said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He added that his economics background emphasizes the
neoclassical school of thought – that the private sector is best able to align
incentives to create a more efficient market.
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“The problem is that the current judicial scheme has
misaligned this structure, tilting the scale in favor of corporate managers and
effectively incentivizing them to steal money and opportunities from the
companies they lead,” he said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In discussing possible solutions to this problem, George
said: “What’s interesting is that so often we focus closely on properly structuring
incentives between corporate managers and shareholders, but we don’t often
think about disincentives.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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By disincentives, George means that the public and private
sectors have not established effective mechanisms for punishing managers who
steal money or opportunities from shareholders.
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Seeing this problem, George’s research looked at how the
private contract market could address this problem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What I’m asking is this: What can we do to force corporate
managers to have some skin in the game? What
I propose is creating a disincentive scheme by punishing managers and titling
the scale back in favor of shareholders.
This can be done by including a provision in executive compensation
contracts that requires managers to pay, as damages, the amount of money stolen
divided by the probability of them being caught.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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This solution effectively requires executives to pay damages
proportionate to the severity of their illicit activities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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George said that he got this idea while working as an
investment advisor from 2006-09, but he wasn’t able to properly articulate his
idea until he took business law courses while at the Boyd School of Law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He said that the judicial system limits what corporate
managers must pay if they steal money; the law requires that they only pay back
any ill-gotten gains (i.e., disgorgement). <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The courts have effectively capped shareholder recovery;
and that’s really powerful because if we as shareholders demand more
accountability and stronger markets, we can’t allow managers to abuse their role
as fiduciaries without proportionate consequences,” he said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The specific provision works this way: If you steal $100,
and it’s discovered that the probability you were going to get caught equaled
100 percent, you’d pay $100 as damages. But if you steal $100, establish an
offshore bank account, file false tax returns, create sham entities, and take
additional steps to conceal your illicit activity, this is evidence I can use
to show that you’ve significantly reduced your probability of being caught.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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George went on to say, “So if I can prove that, through your
efforts, you have effectively reduced your chances of being caught to 50
percent, you pay me twice what you stole. In other words, with this specific provision corporate
managers police themselves.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The article has already gained some attention. Within two months of its publication it made
the Top 10 downloaded list for the Social Science Research Network’s Game
Theory & Bargaining Theory list for all newly announced papers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Currently, George is working as an associate at Gordon
Silver in Las Vegas. His practice
focuses on intellectual property and litigation. He said the best advice that he could give to
law students and recent graduates is to continue researching, writing, and becoming
a student of your craft.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-850944374458021362012-11-16T15:07:00.000-08:002012-11-16T15:09:02.850-08:00Jean Sternlight Digs into the Psychology of Lawyering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Being able to understand the mindset of clients, witnesses, and fellow lawyers can have a profound impact on legal proceedings.<br />
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<a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/jean-sternlight.html">Jean Sternlight</a>, Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law, has spent a sizable portion of her career helping drive that point home.<br />
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This semester, Sternlight is teaching a class on Psychology and Lawyering, which she said is based on her recently published book, <i><a href="http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/index.cfm?pid=5100021&section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart">Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation and Decision Making</a></i>. She co-wrote the book with Jennifer Robbennolt, Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of Illinois College of Law. <br />
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Sternlight said this book was a long time in the making.<br />
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“I had the idea for this book as soon as I moved from practice to academia, but it took me a while to get around to it. For one thing, I had to find a good co-author,” she said. “So a couple of years ago, I hooked up with my co-author who teaches at the University of Illinois. She’s a Ph.D. psychologist; so I think between the two of us, we have a good skill set to try and address these issues.”<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KtQ8vsvzC7A/UKVACjW0FwI/AAAAAAAAAM0/WGTvXLEmc3g/s1600/JeanSternlightBookThumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KtQ8vsvzC7A/UKVACjW0FwI/AAAAAAAAAM0/WGTvXLEmc3g/s1600/JeanSternlightBookThumbnail.jpg" /></a>Sternlight added that this book should be beneficial to students and professionals alike.<br />
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“What the book is designed to do is teach both law students and lawyers a lot of cognitive and social psychology that we think would be useful to them as attorneys,” Sternlight said. “The first eight chapters of the book go into various types of psychology… and then the latter chapters take all those basic aspects of psychology and apply them to things like interviewing clients, counseling clients, negotiation, mediation, discovery, writing and ethics. Then the last chapter discusses lawyers’ productivity and success.”<br />
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Sternlight noted that while many applications of psychology in law are covered, the book avoids trial advocacy because that is what psychology is normally applied to in law.<br />
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“There’s been lots written about how you can use psychology in the courtroom, how you can use psychology with juries; and although that’s fairly important, it turns out that these days, hardly any cases even go to trial anyway, so lawyers spend a lot more time on the areas we chose to talk about,” she said.<br />
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One example she pointed to was a story of when she practiced law and realized that people’s memories were not as good as she thought, and that it was more suspicious if two people remembered the same traumatic event in the exact same way. She said that she gets this point across in her class by doing a social experiment.<br />
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“I did an exercise on the first day of class where my assistant came in to hand me an object, which was actually a rubber chicken, and she wore weird clothes like a backward baseball hat and an unusual purse,” she said, “and then I handed out a survey to see what [the students] remembered of the encounter. It turned out that they had very different memories of what had transpired.”<br />
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Besides teaching, Sternlight works as Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. She will teach a course in Alternative Dispute Resolution in the spring semester.<br />
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For more information on the Saltman Center, click <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/saltman.html">here</a>. Click <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/SaltmanCenterNewsletter_2012_Web.pdf">here</a> for the latest issue of the Saltman Newsletter.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-89218641168675194442012-11-16T15:02:00.000-08:002012-11-19T09:07:36.006-08:00Terrill Pollman Helps Build Students’ Legal Writing Skills <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Professor <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/terrill-pollman.html">Terrill Pollman</a> is a nationally recognized expert with a great deal of experience helping law students improve their writing.<br />
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Pollman is spending the academic year instructing in the Lawyering Process Program. The LP Program is a three-semester-long curriculum where students complete nine credits in legal analysis, research, writing and skills training.<br />
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“In the first-year courses, the students learn the basics of legal analysis, research, and lawyering skills,” she said. “The legal writing classes are active learning classes, where the students are engaged during the class in exercises and learning opportunities.”<br />
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Pollman added that she enjoys teaching legal writing because of the opportunity to work with students on a more individual level.<br />
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“My first teaching experience in law was teaching legal writing and I loved it,” she said. “You get a lot of time to work with students and it’s really a chance to get to know them in a different way. It’s the only first-year class where they get sustained individual attention on legal analysis, so that’s a great opportunity.”<br />
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She also teaches an editing course for an advanced legal writers group.<br />
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“The advanced writers group gives students the chance to develop the vocabulary to talk about writing,” she said. “Every firm has a few lawyers who are in demand because they are good writers, care about writing, and can help other lawyers with their writing by being able to articulate the way to turn a mediocre draft into something really good.<br />
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Pollman has also written a textbook on legal writing, <i><a href="http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/books/45/">Examples and Explanations: Legal Writing</a></i>, which she references while teaching first-year students.<br />
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“My book is mostly for first years. It gives students the chance to practice the skills they’re learning without taking the time to create entire new documents,” she said.<br />
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She added that she wrote the piece when the publishers asked her to write a book for their “Examples and Explanations” series. She wanted to give the students a textbook that would allow them to apply the skills they learn.<br />
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“There are many textbooks for first-year students, but there’s not a lot of help outside of textbooks on subjects like legal writing,” she said.<br />
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One thing she noted was that legal writing is unique from other types of writing, like prose or technical pieces.<br />
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“The conventions of legal writing are different. It’s more like business or technical writing, but it really is its own animal,” she said. “The principles of good writing are consistent no matter what the genre, but the legal genre is different from other academic or professional writing.”<br />
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She added that most students tend to use more elevated language, when in reality it’s better to get to the point and make the piece as accessible as possible.<br />
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“Legal readers are busy people, so they need very straightforward analysis that is both concise and precise,” she said.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-51322680751708617002012-11-16T15:01:00.000-08:002012-11-16T15:10:24.112-08:00International Refugee Law Expert Michael Kagan Brings Middle East Experience Back Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After more than a decade building legal aid programs for refugees in the Middle East, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Professor <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/michael-kagan.html">Michael Kagan</a> is channeling what he learned abroad into the American immigration system.<br />
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Kagan first developed an interest in immigration and refugee law as a law student, taking a semester off in the Middle East.<br />
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“I was working for an Egyptian human rights organization in 1998. An Algerian refugee came in and said he needed protection and wanted to go to the U.S. or Canada,” he said, adding that he was reluctant at first. “I thought it would be really tedious and technical, but there was no one else so I took the case. I learned how difficult it is and how rewarding it is to see people at this turning point in their lives, when they could either be sent to the lions’ den or rebuild.”<br />
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He said that some of his most difficult experiences have been hearing stories from torture victims. He said the torture victim who really stuck out in his mind was a veterinarian from South Sudan.<br />
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“This man had been beaten, had all kinds of awful things done to his body. He could talk about these things with no problem, but when his torturers found out that he was a veterinarian, they made him get on his knees and make animal sounds,” Kagan said. “When he talked about that, that’s when he started to cry, and that taught me a lesson about what really hurts.”<br />
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Kagan, who has also worked in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, has published multiple works about Middle Eastern refugee policy. He published several recent papers on the politics of refugee policy in the Arab world, including proposals for how stronger asylum systems might be built after the Arab Spring.<br />
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"Refugee policy in the Middle East is close to my heart because I spent most of my career working there," he said. "No country in the Middle East has a genuinely working asylum system. So what I was trying to do is point the way toward a more functional refugee protection system that might be able to work within the politics of migration in countries like Egypt."<br />
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Kagan says that he received his first serious practical training in law from an Egyptian activist who had taken up law after being tortured as a political prisoner. “He told me that even though the law is never perfect, lawyers should always try to take it seriously,” he said. “I think it was in Egypt where I really learned what it meant to be a lawyer.”<br />
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One of the first challenges Kagan had to confront concerned the difficulty that asylum systems have separating genuine refugees from people who might be inventing their claims. His experience in Egypt produced one of the most widely cited studies of refugee credibility assessment, which was published in 2003 and has since been relied on by the 9th and 7th Circuit courts of appeal in precedent-setting decisions.<br />
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“Very few of the cases I saw in Cairo raised any controversial legal issues,” Kagan said. “But they turned on credibility assessment, and there were no clear standards about what should be considered believable. Every decision-maker was different, and the decisions were basically arbitrary.”<br />
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Kagan’s interest in credibility assessment has led him to focus on how American courts handle immigration appeals. He is currently working with Boyd Professor Fatma Marouf on a large-scale study of how the circuit courts decide whether to block a deportation while an appeal is pending, known as granting a stay of removal.<br />
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At UNLV, Kagan is teaching in the Immigration Clinic, Professional Responsibility, and Administrative Law.<br />
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The Clinic takes some asylum and torture cases, raising issues similar to those Kagan dealt with abroad.<br />
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“This is great for students because not only do they get experience and get to make real arguments, they get to see the complexity of how these rules apply to real people,” Kagan said.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-81023086642798361682012-11-16T15:00:00.000-08:002012-11-16T15:10:08.077-08:00Bryn Esplin Honored with Neuroethics Award <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law second-year student Bryn Esplin is the latest student to be recognized for her academic contributions.<br />
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Her work, titled “Identical Prescriptions, Disparate Treatment: Anticonvulsant Usage in Frontal Lobe Epilepsy and Bipolar I Disorder,” received the Early Career Scholar in Neuroethics Award. She presented her work at the International Neuroethics Conference at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 24-25, 2012.<br />
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Esplin said it was an unexpected delight to be recognized for her work at the international level.<br />
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“It's an honor and very encouraging, but it's also a larger recognition of the caliber and commitment of Boyd's professors,” she said. “I simply wouldn't have received the award without Professor [Stacey] Tovino's support and guidance.”<br />
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Her paper discusses the advances in neuroscience and legislation that can affect the diagnosis and treatment of the conditions she studied.<br />
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“I conclude that, working in tandem, breakthroughs in neuroscience and legislative interventions can enhance understanding and access to care, helping to dismantle the philosophical heritage of persistent stigma,” she said. “This work is an outgrowth of a directed research project supervised by Professor Tovino.”<br />
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Esplin said that she became interested in researching this topic for the same reason she got into law school: being able to direct change to systems that need it.<br />
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“Part of the impetus for pursuing a J.D. is my belief that legal training affords the ability to effectuate meaningful, necessary change. Of particular concern to me is the marginalization of individuals with mental illness, which has been and continues to be reiterated and reified,” she said. “It's irrefutable that the categorization of physical versus mental illness as evidenced by Epilepsy and Bipolar Disorder is both problematic and conspicuously arbitrary.”<br />
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She added that she feels her work articulates why unequal treatment in health care and legislation is such a problem and how it impacts not just those afflicted, but the public at-large.<br />
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“More importantly, it proposes solutions to disparity and offers new modes of thinking and reconciling difference,” Esplin said.<br />
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As for post-graduation plans, Esplin hopes to continue working on things she finds to be fulfilling.<br />
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“I've been lucky to do the things I find enjoyable irrespective of whether they're lucrative or sustainable. More and more I realize there are so many paths to take post-law school, so I can't say which I'll follow,” she said.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-59499007455384441952012-04-16T14:55:00.000-07:002012-11-15T10:42:13.747-08:00Professor Bret Birdsong Explores the Legal Mechanics of the Modern Food System<br />
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The legal academy has paid relatively little attention to issues of broad popular concern about the modern food system, but UNLV Boyd School of Law Professor <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/bret-birdsong.html">Bret Birdsong</a> is working to change that. <br />
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He is one of a group of legal scholars who are rethinking and redefining food law. <br />
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In a forthcoming article, Birdsong argues that the field of Food Law must expand beyond the values of “safe” and “cheap.” He exhorts legal scholars to address the legal determinants of the food system from a broader array of perspectives and values. <br />
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“There is an increasing understanding that food is not just some nicely wrapped bundle found on the supermarket shelf. It is a product of a long supply chain and of processes – from the farm to the factory – that have implications not just for eaters, but for workers, for wildlife, for the environment, even for foreign relations,” Birdsong said. <br />
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The law, he added, should incorporate those broader values, and legal scholars should work to explore how the modern food system either serves or does not serve those values.<br />
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“My broader project,” he said, “is to look under the hood of the modern food system to see what legal machinery is there and to evaluate how that machinery makes the food system run. Once we know that, we can think about how to tinker with that machinery in order to steer the food system where we want it to go based on society’s modern values.” <br />
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Food and farming have always been important industries, he explains, and a set of laws has long addressed the core issues that those industries face. As a result, statutes like the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act are pillars of progressive-era regulation and are aimed at ensuring a “safe” food supply. <br />
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Similarly, New Deal programs aim to provide support and stability for the farm sector, largely to ensure that affordable food will be produced in plentiful amounts in the long run. Legal scholars to date have tended to think narrowly of “Food and Drug Law,” or “Food Safety Law,” or “Agricultural Law.”<br />
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In recent years, there has been a cornucopia of popular books and documentary films about food and food policy. <br />
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Books like Michael Pollan’s <i>The Omnivore’s Dilemma</i> and Eric Schlosser’s <i>Fast Food Nation </i>as well as films like <i>Food, Inc.</i> and<i> Super Size Me</i> have spawned new perspectives on how and what we eat and the consequences of our modern food system. It is now commonly understood that what people eat affects not just their own health, but also the workers that produced the food, the environment and many other important values.<br />
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Birdsong presented his thoughts at the annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools and organized a group of papers for the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities conference held at the Boyd School of Law in March 2011. He also will be participating in a workshop of food law scholars at the University of Colorado in June 2012.<br />
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“It is exciting to be part of an emerging group of legal scholars looking at food from different perspectives,” Birdsong said. <br />
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He noted that he comes to food law as a scholar of environmental and natural resources law. Other legal scholars approach food law with other areas of expertise, ranging from labor to intellectual property. <br />
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Ordinarily, he said, legal scholars with such disparate interests might have little reason to exchange ideas. <br />
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“But food is bringing us together.”William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-63049730902129138532012-04-16T14:54:00.002-07:002012-04-18T17:33:07.196-07:00Professor Rachel Anderson Studies Law, Lawmaking and the Legal Profession in Nevada<br />
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In the past few years, UNLV Boyd School of Law Professor <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/rachel-anderson.html">Rachel Anderson</a> has been researching Nevada law, lawmaking and the legal community. <br />
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Her most recent publication, “<a href="http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/689/">Timeline of African-American Legal History in Nevada (1861-2011)</a>” in the February issue of the <i>Nevada Lawyer </i>weaves together cases, statutes, events, community activism and the lives of individuals. <br />
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The “Timeline” illustrates developments in civil rights and the African-American legal community in Nevada. <br />
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“The numbers of African-American attorneys and judges in the state are small. So far, I have documented approximately 150 lawyers and 11 judges over the last 48 years,” Anderson said. “In 2010, African Americans made up 8 percent of Nevada’s population. Currently, African-American attorneys make up approximately 1 percent of the practicing attorneys and 2 percent of the judges in Nevada.”<br />
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Anderson applies theories developed by sociologist W.E.B. DuBois to frame her analysis of the relationship between Nevada law and social and economic development. <br />
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She is currently writing a law review article on the African-American legal community in Nevada, using the narratives of individuals to explore how laws affect communities, and individuals can contribute to lawmaking and social change. <br />
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As part of her work as the Secretary of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association (LVNBA), Anderson was instrumental in creating the LVNBA Archive at the Wiener-Rogers Law Library in 2011. <br />
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The archive collects materials about the LVNBA and African-American attorneys in Nevada and is a resource for scholars, students and the general public. The archive houses a unique and growing collection of historically significant oral histories, documents and photographs relating to Nevada legal history. <br />
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In addition to her research on Nevada legal history, Anderson also writes in the areas of business and international law. She is currently writing a book review of <i>Bishop and Zucker on Nevada Corporations and Limited Liability Companies</i> and conducting research for an article examining the extent to which lawmaking can influence decision-making in corporate boardrooms.<br />
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Anderson’s research is integrated into her activities beyond the walls of the law school. In February 2012, she gave presentations at the law school and at Snell & Wilmer based on her research on the history of the African-American legal community in Nevada. She also moderated a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0Oxkfp_p4&feature=youtu.be">Vegas PBS roundtable</a> on the Early African-American Legal Community in Nevada. <br />
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Anderson is a member of the State Bar Law Related Education Consortium and serves as a person-at-large on the Executive Committee of the Business Section of the State Bar of Nevada. <br />
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In 2011, she was elected to the office of Vice President of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association.<br />
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Anderson will be speaking at the 2012 Nevada Judicial Leadership Summit.<br />
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A graduate of Reed High School in Sparks, Anderson returned to Nevada in 2007 after practicing in the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. <br />
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“I’m excited to apply the knowledge and experience I’ve gained to the challenges and opportunities here at home,” she said of returning to Nevada.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-20714599831315285852012-04-16T14:54:00.001-07:002012-04-16T14:54:29.165-07:00Professor Marketa Trimble Publishes on Cross-Border Legal Problems Affecting Intellectual Property Rights<br />
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UNLV Boyd School of Law Professor <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/marketa-trimble.html">Marketa Trimble</a> is publishing two major works in the first half of 2012 (one published, one forthcoming) that have arisen out of her research on transnational litigation and the functioning of national laws on the Internet. <br />
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The debate on a major reform of U.S. patent law, which resulted in the adoption of the <i>America Invents Act</i> in 2011, evidenced the desire for greater compatibility of the U.S. patent system with other national patent systems to facilitate access to patenting in multiple countries. <br />
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“Inventors are disappointed to learn that there is no global patent available to protect their inventions worldwide,” Trimble said. “Notwithstanding the globalized economy and the territorially unlimited business aspirations of inventors and businesses, patents are still granted country by country, making global protection for an invention very difficult and impossible for small businesses.” <br />
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In her book, “<a href="http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/books/60/">Global Patents: Limits of Transnational Enforcement</a>,” published by Oxford University Press in January 2012, Trimble discusses the limitations of protecting inventions globally and explores the possibilities for extending the protection of a single country patent beyond the territory of the country in which the patent is granted. In addition to reviewing international patent law, Trimble discusses and analyzes patent laws in the U.S and Germany—countries among those with the highest volume of patent litigation in the world.<br />
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In her second work, to be published later in the first half of 2012, Trimble contributes to the debate about the enforcement of national laws on the Internet. <br />
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Discussions about recent legislative proposals on the enforcement of U.S. copyright law on the Internet, such as the proposal for the <i>Stop Online Piracy Act</i> (“SOPA”) and similar initiatives in European countries, have shown that the topic is highly controversial.<br />
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Trimble understands the importance of a free media, having grown up during the Soviet era in Central Europe.<br />
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“Having grown up behind the Iron Curtain, I am very sensitive to the need for access to uncensored information,” Trimble said. “Listening to foreign radio stations was my family’s everyday routine in Czechoslovakia before 1989 because foreign stations offered the only easily accessible alternative to the local government-censored news. When the government began to interfere with foreign broadcasts in the Czech language, we would tune to the same broadcasts for Poland. I learned quite a bit of Polish that way.”<br />
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Trimble’s background and interests in the legal issues of the Internet led her to write about Internet geolocation tools, which are used to limit access to content on the Internet from certain jurisdictions, and explore the legality of the evasion of these tools. Her article, “<a href="http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/648/">The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation</a>,” will be published by the <i>Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal </i>and looks not only at the current status of tools for the evasion of geolocation, but also suggests how the law may treat these tools in the future.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-69113833287461518172012-04-16T14:54:00.000-07:002012-04-16T14:54:00.718-07:00Boyd Alumnus’ Work Experience and Education Help Him to ‘Engineer’ Law Career<br />
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Alumni of the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law have a variety of backgrounds, each of which helps them when they begin their post-law school careers. <br />
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Seaton Curran ’08 currently works at <a href="http://www.howardandhoward.com/attorneys/bio.asp?id=192">Howard & Howard</a>, a business law firm where his focus is on intellectual property and patent law. However, before going to law school, Curran was a professional engineer.<br />
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He gained his degree in engineering from Loyola Marymount in 1996 and began his career as an engineer before going back to school part-time to earn a master’s in business administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business in 2000.<br />
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Curran moved to Las Vegas in 2003 and worked for Black & Veatch engineering firm. He worked as an engineer throughout his time going to school at Boyd.<br />
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“It’s not uncommon for me to be dealing with Ph.D. level scientists and engineers at my job,” Curran said. “It’s been a nice culmination of all my previous experience.”<br />
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Curran’s job requires him to deal with foreign clients and foreign patent attorneys on many occasions. He said that it’s not unusual for him to deal with foreign jurisdictions, whether their laws are similar to the United States or not.<br />
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“The interesting thing about intellectual property is that since companies are now going global, it’s not surprising that local companies are looking to manufacture in other countries,” he said. “When looking at patent protections, we have to deal with other countries’ laws and how a client’s product could expand into other countries. It’s a little short-sighted to only be dealing with U.S. laws.”<br />
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Curran’s time as an engineer also provides him the opportunity to give back to UNLV. He has offered his services to students at the School of Engineering, providing guidance and assistance regarding patent protection.<br />
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He said that patent protection is important for the students to have for multiple reasons.<br />
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“If they obtain patent protection, it not only helps them to protect their project, but if investors ask about it they have it to weigh risk,” Curran said. “So it gives them a leg up on other people.”<br />
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Curran also serves as a member of the Nevada Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board. The board consists of members appointed to 4-year terms, and it deals with collective bargaining and labor relations between local government employers, employees, unions and associations.<br />
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“I was made aware of the position three years ago. I filled out the application, and Jim Gibbons, who was governor at the time, made the appointment,” he said<br />
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Curran said that the position takes up about 200-220 hours of his time per year. Though his work focus is patents, Curran said he is still able to contribute a great deal.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-46528738909809316962011-11-17T18:30:00.000-08:002011-11-22T17:06:46.909-08:00Professor Studies the Art of Writing Persuasively<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Professor <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/linda-berger.html">Linda L. Berger</a> studies the art of writing persuasively.<br />
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“I’m not writing so much about substantive law as I am about how you would write something in a substantive field to persuade someone else in that field,” Berger said. <br />
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Berger, who is in her first year as a professor at UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, researches and writes in the field of legal rhetoric. Recently, she has analyzed and written about the ways in which judges’ decisions match up with the stories and images (narratives and metaphors) that are traditional in our culture. In one article, Berger examined the influence of traditional images of mothers, fathers, and families on child custody decisions. Similarly, culturally embedded stories of wise judges (going back to King Solomon) can be seen to have affected those decisions. In addition to uncovering such images and stories through rhetorical analysis, Berger also makes suggestions for lawyers to work more imaginatively with metaphor and narrative. These suggestions can help lawyers better fit their clients’ situations into the rules that grew up alongside long-established stories and images. <br />
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“In my scholarship, I’m more interested in how the judicial decision making process works, and especially in how to persuade decision makers, than I am in what the rules are,” she said.<br />
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Berger’s most recent work draws on cognitive studies of decision making. In particular, she is exploring whether judges engage in something similar to the “recognition-primed decision model” that has been identified in studies of experts in other professions. When a person experienced in an area is faced with a complex issue, these studies indicate that the expert quickly recognizes patterns and then makes a decision based on simulating or imagining the outcome of various approaches. The model emerged in studies of decision makers such as firefighters, nurses, jet pilots, and military commanders.<br />
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“Even though there are many differences between judges and military commanders in the field, it will be interesting to examine whether the decision model provides insights into judging.”<br />
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Berger said one area where judges might be likely to demonstrate this type of decision making would be at the trial court level where a judge is more likely to have to make decisions based on uncertain facts under time pressure. One challenge in her research has been the difficulty of obtaining sufficient trial court decisions on a particular subject to analyze.<br />
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Berger has been interested in rhetoric and writing for a long time. “I was a journalist before law school, and I’ve always been interested in how communication and composition work,” she said.<br />
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After entering the legal field, Berger became more interested in the interpretation of writing.<br />
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“If you can see what is effective and figure out why, you can apply that principle to your own writing,” she said.<br />
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Berger said she was particularly drawn to the Boyd School of Law because of its youth, energy, and commitment to the community. In addition, she said taking the position at Boyd School of Law gives her the opportunity to work with people whom she has admired in the legal writing field. Previously, Berger taught at the University of San Diego School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Mercer University School of Law.<br />
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“I get a very positive and optimistic outlook about the future from most of the people I meet here at UNLV,” she said.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-42037825077119622022011-11-17T18:00:00.001-08:002011-11-22T17:10:25.272-08:00Professor Challenges Traditional Legal Thought with Newest Projects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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William S. Boyd School of Law <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/thomas-mcafee.html">Professor Thomas McAffee’s</a> current scholarly works challenge the way legal scholars have traditionally viewed implied fundamental rights and how a recent presidential administration has viewed the war powers.<br />
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“Most of the scholarship on the Ninth Amendment has been mainly wrong,” McAffee said. “The largest percentage of scholarly works has presumed that its reference to other rights retained by the people is a reference to unenumerated rights and may relate to the natural rights thought to be inherent. I am convinced that the text was referring to all the rights that were secured by the system of enumerated powers granted by the states.”<br />
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The Ninth Amendment, McAffee said, should be read as a companion to the 10th Amendment—the “twin guardians of federalism.” McAffee’s current research explores that idea, along with some of the points made in the book “The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment” by Kurt T. Lash. McAffee hopes to update a law review article he wrote in 1990 for the Columbia Law Review on the subject, in light of some of the more current interpretations of the Ninth Amendment.<br />
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Originally, McAffee explained, Congress sent out 12 proposed amendments. Two of the 12 failed, and the remaining 10 comprise what we now know as the Bill of Rights. However, much of the history of the Ninth Amendment had become lost because of semantics.<br />
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“It became habitual among legal scholars in the first third of the 19th Century to refer to the Bill of Rights with the amendments <i>proposed</i> by Congress. Judges used to refer to the ‘11th Proposed Amendment’ … what we now know as the Ninth Amendment,” McAffee said.<br />
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McAffee said that most of the case law prior to the <i>Griswold v. Connecticut</i> decision, which most legal scholars point to for an interpretation of the Ninth Amendment, seems to share the assumption that the Ninth Amendment is a federal provision. His intention is to write an article about the original reading of the Ninth Amendment, 20 years after his first. In addition, he intends to explore the ways in which he feels Lash “basically got it wrong too” in “The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment.”<br />
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“There’s stuff I’ve become aware of that I didn’t even know of when I wrote my original article,” McAffee said.<br />
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In addition, McAffee is working with <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/christopher-blakesley.html">Professor Christopher L. Blakesley</a> on a book about justiciability and national security issues involving the war powers. In the book, the professors are exploring University of Berkley School of Law Professor John Yoo’s interpretation of the president’s war powers. Yoo was an official in the United States Department of Justice during the Bush Administration. Yoo’s memos on enhanced interrogation techniques broadly interpreted the president’s war powers.<br />
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McAffee said that the president’s powers during war time, as defined by the Constitution, include how war should be fought and what strategies should be used.<br />
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“The question is, are there some issues that relate to tactics and strategy that are still entirely within the scope of the legislative powers held by Congress?” McAffee said.<br />
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The book will explore the administration’s decision to use enhanced interrogation techniques and the president’s role during times of war.<br />
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In addition, McAffee is working on an article for the <i>Nevada Law Journal</i> about <i>Terry v. Ohio</i>, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that permitted law enforcement officials to stop and search people for “reasonable suspicion.” McAffee will write about how the decision lends itself to the possibility of racial profiling.<br />
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“(The decision) was one of our unhappier results, I think,” McAffee said.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-51588527524645336882011-11-17T17:30:00.000-08:002011-11-22T17:11:06.631-08:00Professor Studies Hazards of Experiential Theater, Public Performance Rights of Recording Artists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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William S. Boyd School of Law <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/mary-lafrance.html">Professor Mary LaFrance</a>, who currently holds the title of IGT Professor of Intellectual Property Law, is spending her time working on intellectual property and entertainment law projects, exploring a variety of entertainment and advertising issues.<br />
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Most recently, LaFrance published an <a href="http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/679/">article</a> in the <i>Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law</i> about the practical challenges of implementing a public performance right for sound recordings.<br />
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“This exists in almost every other country in the world except the United States,” LaFrance said.<br />
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Elsewhere, whenever a record is played publicly, record companies and performers receive compensation. In the United States, broadcasters and public venues pay royalties to composers and publishers in order to play a song, but the record companies and performers receive nothing. Currently, the only performances in the United States for which such compensation is paid are those which occur on satellite radio, Internet radio, or streaming music services, such as Spotify or Pandora.<br />
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“In Las Vegas, playing recorded music is a big deal,” she said.<br />
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Recently, Congress proposed legislation that would expand such compensation to radio broadcasts. LaFrance’s article critiques the proposed legislation, then goes beyond, analyzing what steps need to be taken to apply the right more broadly.<br />
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LaFrance also presented the paper at a major music conference in Boston, after receiving a research grant from the University of Houston Law Center. A shorter version of the paper has been published in the Music Business Journal put out by the Berklee College of Music in Boston.<br />
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Currently, LaFrance has a number of projects in her areas of study. She has just completed a comparative law article analyzing unfair competition laws in the United States and Europe. <br />
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“In the United States, our concept of ‘unfair competition’ applies when one party uses a brand name or a confusingly similar name, passing off a product or service as though it were coming from another party,” LaFrance explained. “In Europe, it’s much broader.”<br />
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LaFrance said that the European standards for unfair competition do not require consumer confusion. For instance, LaFrance said, one company could not market an imitation perfume by comparing it to the brand name perfume.<br />
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“In the European Union, if a company achieves success, the policy is to protect that brand and that success and not let others cheapen it,” she said.<br />
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LaFrance also recently completed an article about the hazards of experiential theater, particularly about the risks of personal injury. Her interest in the topic came when she attended a performance in which she witnessed injuries.<br />
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“I am a big fan, but I am concerned that the theatre companies don’t self-regulate or take precautions,” she said. “This is an attempt to encourage this industry to mitigate the risks while still engaging in artistic experimentation.”<br />
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Additionally, LaFrance is finishing up work on an entertainment law casebook that covers both domestic and international entertainment law.<br />
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“I’ve tested the international material on some students at UNLV and elsewhere. I will test the domestic materials on students next spring,” she said.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-33812272201403810312011-11-17T17:00:00.000-08:002011-11-22T17:12:01.606-08:00Student Analyzes Ninth Circuit Reversal in Published Article<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When William S. Boyd School of Law student Jaime E. Serrano, Jr. ‘12 found out about a United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision handed down concerning a bankruptcy court sanctions last year, he felt compelled to write about it.<br />
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Notably, Gov. Brian Sandoval, then a federal judge, affirmed the original sanctions opinion when it was first appealed to the Federal District Court in Nevada. However, the Ninth Circuit found the sanctions to be “unduly harsh” and disagreed with Markell’s legal conclusions.<br />
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“It was a plainly wrong decision, but not surprising if you consider that the sanctioned attorneys were the only party to present their case, and given the court’s unfamiliarity with bankruptcy policy and code,” Serrano said, referring to the Ninth Circuit’s opinion.<br />
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Serrano consulted with Boyd School of Law <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/nancy-rapoport.html">Professor Nancy Rapoport</a>, who originally alerted him to the decision and agreed that it raised important procedural and ethical issues. Rapoport suggested this situation would make an interesting article submission to the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Journal. He submitted the <a href="http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/American-Bankruptcy-Institute/interactivejournal9-11/2011082901/50.html#50">article</a>, and it appeared in the <a href="http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/American-Bankruptcy-Institute/interactivejournal9-11/2011082901/50.html#50">September 2011 edition</a>. The article’s publication coincided with the ABI’s conference hosted at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, and Serrano said he received a great deal of positive feedback from those in attendance, including from Markell.<br />
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Serrano first became interested in bankruptcy during his first year, when he taught basic bankruptcy concepts as part of the school’s community service program. He ultimately won the bankruptcy community service award that spring. <br />
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“I believe an understanding of basic bankruptcy concepts is important for every attorney doing any kind of business or family practice, because it is an option available to most individuals and businesses,” he said. “What happens if your client, their partners, or third parties consider filing bankruptcy? Especially in this economy, it is super important to understand the consequences of bankruptcy.”<br />
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Later this academic year, Serrano will intern for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada and compete with a team of Boyd students in the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition in Brooklyn, New York.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-12041005899729971242011-04-26T19:29:00.000-07:002011-05-03T11:53:19.926-07:00Professor Nancy Rapoport Examines the Practices of Bankruptcy Lawyers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-behKU894Yzk/Tbd-eXoGtNI/AAAAAAAAAEA/MGfYBMZ3rt8/s1600/NBR-Color-Cherie-Hogan-Photography_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-behKU894Yzk/Tbd-eXoGtNI/AAAAAAAAAEA/MGfYBMZ3rt8/s320/NBR-Color-Cherie-Hogan-Photography_web.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/nancy-rapoport.html">Nancy B. Rapoport</a> studies intersections: the intersections between professional responsibility and various fields of law. She’s known best for her work studying the behavior of bankruptcy lawyers, but she also studies corporate governance and the images of lawyers in popular culture. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">She came to academia from Morrison & Foerster, where she practiced bankruptcy law. “What I love about bankruptcy law is that it’s the last great frontier of generalist practice, wrapped inside a specialty. At MoFo (yes, that’s its nickname), I was both a transactional lawyer and a litigator, and I had to be at least familiar with other areas of law that intersected bankruptcy law, including labor and employment law, intellectual property, and of course secured transactions.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">While she was at MoFo, she started thinking about her first research project based on her experience doing a conflicts check at her firm. “I marked pretty much everyone as potentially adverse, because folks can team up in various ways during a Chapter 11 case.” That conflicts check was several inches high, and it triggered a question: do state ethics rules really work in Chapter 11 cases? Rapoport’s answer is no, and she’s written extensively about conflicts of interest ever since.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">She’s also written a lot about professional fees in Chapter 11 cases, both because she’s interested in how law firms bill their clients and because she has been a fee examiner in some large Chapter 11 cases, and she's just been named the fee examiner in the Station Casinos cases. Using a team of law students and recent graduates, Rapoport and her staff ask why professionals have chosen to staff particular tasks in certain ways and how their work product relates to their billable time. “Being an expert—especially when I’m hired by a bankruptcy court directly—gives me a window into how lawyers practice today, and that helps me do a better job as a researcher as well.” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Her work in the area of law and popular culture has led to an ongoing relationship with the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (<a href="http://www.theamec.com/">www.theamec.com</a>), where she co-chairs the Law School Advisory Board. AMEC is about to launch a writing competition for law students as a way of getting them interested in the entertainment law field. <span style="color: black;">In 2009, AMEC presented her with the </span><a href="http://law.unlv.edu/node/372">Public Service Counsel Award</a><span style="color: black;"> at the 4<sup>th</sup> Annual Counsel of the Year Awards.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In her spare time, Rapoport competes pro-am (she’s the “am”) in ballroom dancing in the American Rhythm and American Smooth divisions. She chose the Boyd School of Law because she appreciates the close-knit community of very active scholars, the talented students and staff members, and the ability to be part of a school that continues to invent its own traditions.</div>William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-56496666014283168112011-04-26T19:28:00.003-07:002011-05-04T08:45:35.375-07:00Professor Ann Cammett Seeks Access to Justice for Families on the Margins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q89pg-iK2cw/Tb8VrqKI-WI/AAAAAAAAAEE/bYOHWwYh60c/s1600/news_faculty_Cammett_D66497_23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q89pg-iK2cw/Tb8VrqKI-WI/AAAAAAAAAEE/bYOHWwYh60c/s320/news_faculty_Cammett_D66497_23.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/ann-cammett.html"><br />
Professor Ann <span class="SpellE">Cammett</span></a> is well versed on the impact of incarceration on families. <span class="SpellE">Cammett</span> notes that "as a family lawyer providing support to formerly incarcerated parents, I was struck by the breadth of civil consequences faced by them upon release from prison – barriers to voting, employment, housing, education and other critical life supports – all of which prevented them from successfully reunifying with their families, establishing themselves within their communities, and regaining status as productive members of society." </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Since her time as a <span class="SpellE">Skadden</span> fellow in 2000, <span class="SpellE">Cammett</span> has engaged in the work of identifying the range of these sanctions, and educating advocates to provide support to low-income clients in navigating them. She later worked as a policy analyst in New Jersey, providing technical assistance to government and community-based organizations, engaging in legislative activity, and assisting with the development of model programs to facilitate more positive prisoner reentry outcomes by addressing civil sanctions. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">In particular <span class="SpellE">Cammett</span> recognized that civil barriers at the intersection of incarceration and family law were not being adequately addressed. Many prisoners are also parents, and are at risk for automatic termination of parental rights. Moreover, in many states child support obligations continue to accrue in prison, despite the fact that parents earn little or no money to satisfy them – a practice that renders many low-income parents debtors upon release.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Professor <span class="SpellE">Cammett</span> sought, through her scholarship, to define the public policy impact of burgeoning child support arrears on prisoner reentry. She broke new ground by identifying child support debt, coupled with aggressive federal enforcement mechanisms, as a <i>de facto</i> collateral consequence of incarceration. Her current research agenda explores the broader contours of child support policy toward incarcerated parents. "<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1620410">Deadbeats, <span class="SpellE">Deadbrokes</span> & Prisoners</a>," a forthcoming article in the <i>Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy</i>, demonstrates how modern day mass incarceration has radically skewed the paradigm on which the child support system is based, removing millions of parents from the formal economy, diminishing their income opportunities after release, and rendering them ineffective economic actors within established normative family support structures. She specifically notes how this flawed policy approach creates unintended consequences for the children of these parents by compromising a core non-monetary goal of child support system – parent-child engagement – as enforcement measures serve to alienate parents from the formal economy after reentry and drive them underground and away from their families. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Professor <span class="SpellE">Cammett</span> came to Boyd after a teaching fellowship at Georgetown University’s clinical program, and founded the <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/clinic/family-justice.html">Family Justice Clinic</a>, bringing her extensive portfolio of service to low-income clients. The clinic, now jointly directed by <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/elizabeth-macdowell.html">Professor Elizabeth MacDowell</a>, has a particular focus on prisoners and their families, clients engaged with immigration issues, and those affected by the child welfare system and other forms of state intervention. Student attorneys in the clinic explore the role of families in society, the strengths and weaknesses of state intervention into families, and the meaning of access to justice for children and parents, through direct representation of clients and associated policy projects.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">In February of 2011, the Family Justice Clinic at the Boyd School of Law provided testimony in support of Nevada’s proposed Senate Bill 87, The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Convictions Act. The Act, based on the Uniform Law Commission’s draft legislation, seeks to alleviate some of the disabling invisible civil penalties that follow a person after a plea or conviction for a crime. While collateral consequences inhibit successful reintegration by individuals, what is less commonly explored is the negative effect that these barriers have on families. The Family Justice Clinic stands ready to provide education on these issues.</div>William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-15217613187207258042011-04-26T19:28:00.001-07:002011-05-04T14:05:12.005-07:00Faculty Collaborate to Provide Experiential Learning to the Max at Boyd<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--sdOoEn5HuE/Tbd92axS8nI/AAAAAAAAAD8/gjFW56tjqBI/s1600/news_lcb-supreme-127.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--sdOoEn5HuE/Tbd92axS8nI/AAAAAAAAAD8/gjFW56tjqBI/s320/news_lcb-supreme-127.jpg" width="177" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Students at the William S. Boyd School of Law have many opportunities for experiential learning but a particularly popular one is available only when the Nevada Legislature is in session. During the spring semester of odd-numbered years, thanks to a collaboration among several faculty members, students can participate in a “legislative immersion” experience that includes a legislative externship for up to 12 credits and, if they so choose, an advanced legal writing course on Legislative Advocacy. And the entire enterprise happens in the capitol, Carson City, 300+ miles from the law school.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/martin-geer.html">Professor Marty Geer</a>, Boyd’s externship program director, has arranged for a variety of <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/externship-program.html">externship placements</a>. Some students are placed with law firms that lobby for non-profit or government entities; others are placed with non-profit organizations such as the ACLU; still others are placed with Nevada’s Legislative Counsel Bureau (LCB) and work in legislative leadership offices or in the legal division of the LCB. <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/john-white.html">Dean John Valery White</a>, who is part of UNLV’s lobbying team, is the faculty supervisor for the Legislative Externship course and meets with the students several times throughout the semester to discuss their experiences.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This spring semester, <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/faculty/jean-whitney.html">Professor Jean Whitney</a> is teaching a course that complements the legislative externship and allows students to complete their required third semester of legal writing. Advanced Advocacy: Legislative Policy is a hands-on course in which the students select a legislative issue they are interested in, draft a bill, write a policy memo to support their proposed legislation, and make a presentation at a mock legislative hearing This semester Professor Whitney has also arranged for a series of guest speakers, all of whom play some role in the legislative process. Students have had opportunities to meet with staff from the LCB, including Darcy Johnson (’01); organizational and grass roots lobbyists, including alumnus Denise <span class="SpellE">Tanata</span> Ashby ‘03, <a href="http://law.unlv.edu/staff/christine-smith.html">Associate Dean Christine Smith</a> and UNR Professor Jim Richardson; and attorney lobbyists. During the last classes, when the students will be giving their “testimony” on the legislation they have drafted, many volunteers from the impressive cadre of alumnae in the Legislature and some of the lobbyists and LCB staff will serve as members of the mock legislative committees that will hear the students’ legislative proposals. This year we have five alumni serving in the Nevada Legislature: Lucy Flores ’10, Jason <span class="SpellE">Frierson</span> ’01, William Horne ’01, John <span class="SpellE">Oceguera</span> ’03, and James <span class="SpellE">Orenschall</span> ’09.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr align="justify"><td class="tr-caption">Professor Jean Whitney's Advanced Advocacy: Legislative Policy class held in the Nevada Legislature's Committee Hearing Room in Carson City, Nevada. From left, front row: Karl Shelton, 2L; Sean McDonald, 2L; Whitney Richburg, 2L; Steven Miller, UNR graduate student. From left, back row: Max Fetaz, 3L; Debra Amens, 2L; Elana Graham, retired Clark County Deputy District Attorney; Elana L. Graham '10; Seth Floyd '10; Asher Killian, LCB attorney; Darcy Johnson '02, LCB attorney; Jeremy Thompson, 3L.</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Pinning down one thing that I have learned is hard. The session is going by so quickly, and new issues are presented every day, I feel lucky if I am able to recollect issues that were brought up last week. I guess the experience is more about learning the process and the political landscape in Nevada, which is so different from where I grew up. Sitting in the Senate committee on Government Affairs has exposed me to some of the peculiarities of rural Nevada- for instance Pahrump, a town of 41,000 remains unincorporated, and this has had the result that the people there don't get to make zoning decisions- those are made at the county. <span class="GramE">Also</span>, White Pine county didn't provide workers compensation insurance to their firefighters because they couldn't afford to. Another thing that I will take away with me is how accessible our government is here in Nevada. It’s true that paid lobbyists outnumber the members of the legislature and their staff, but every day I see unpaid citizen lobbyists testify on issues that affect them and the groups they represent, and the legislators seem to consider the points of view of everyone who testifies- even the certifiable ones.”</div><div style="text-align: right;">- Karl Shelton, 2L</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> “My legislative externship has given me the opportunity to help shape some of Assembly leadership's bills. I have been privileged with a behind-the-scenes look at what goes in to drafting a bill---the research, lobbyist negotiations, <span class="SpellE">causus</span> meetings, and so on. The legislators and their staff live and <span class="GramE">breath</span> Nevada policy during the session, working tirelessly to do what it takes to further the policies they believe will positively impact the state.”</div><div style="text-align: right;">- Whitney Richburg, 2L</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“This is an amazing experience. The amount of hands on, close observation of the process is fascinating. The quality and amount of legislative material on line is a great example of how a state can easily engage the public in the legislative process. I am most surprised with the level of access to legislators and their willingness to engage and debate the issues.”</div><div style="text-align: right;">- Debra <span class="SpellE">Amens</span>, 2L</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“What is the most surprising? This externship is my first in-depth experience with the legislature and politics. I am simply in awe at how much information my Senator is expected to recall. There are so many bills and so many topics and I am amazed that everything can get done in a proper manner in only 120 days. Combining the legislative externship with the legislative drafting class is a great experience. Being able to share my experiences during the session with classmates is very rewarding. As I drafted my statute and memo for class, I kept in mind all the testimony, exhibits, ideas, positions, questions, and confusion that I have watched over the session. The externship opened my eyes to how a really simple idea can actually be so complex.” </div><div style="text-align: right;">- Jeremy Thompson, 3L</div>William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-76726424083088981432011-04-26T19:28:00.000-07:002011-05-02T17:23:57.142-07:00Boyd Alumna Researching Domestic Violence Among Ethnic Groups<div class="MsoNormal"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://socialwork.unlv.edu/directory/faculty.html#kbergquist">Kathleen Ja Sook Berquist</a> '09, a UNLV Professor <br />
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Professor Kathleen Ja Sook Berquist’s</a> interest in the care of victims of domestic violence began before she graduated from the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2009.<span class="SpellE"> </span><br />
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<span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> will be pursuing that interest this year as she completes research work identifying possible linguistic and cultural barriers among local domestic violence providers that may affect education, outreach and intervention within the Spanish-speaking and Asian communities in Southern Nevada. <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/node/6663">The Lincy Institute recently awarded her a fellowship</a> to conduct her research.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“I heard about the fellowship and thought my research would be perfect to create a community-university partnership,” <span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> said.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://lincyinstitute.unlv.edu/">The <span class="SpellE">Lincy</span> Institute</a> at UNLV awards four to six fellowships each year to UNLV faculty who design research projects that pertain to topics of relevance to community need within the areas of education, social services and health; directly involve community agencies in Southern Nevada and contribute to the necessity of the agencies; add to data in any of the named fields; or provide immediate and potential funding opportunities from federal, state or private sources.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span>, who already had her doctorate in counselor education before pursuing her <span class="SpellE">Juris</span> Doctorate, has long been involved with the Asian-Pacific community. She noticed that the three shelters in Las Vegas that provide services for victims of domestic violence report low numbers for domestic violence care within the Asian-Pacific community.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“National and regional numbers on domestic violence do not tend to look at specific ethnicities,” <span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> said.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Within the Asian community,” <span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> said, “data has shown that domestic violence occurs just as often as it does within the non-Asian population, but the fatality rate tends to be higher. The reason is that there is a general distrust of law enforcement or anyone not within the Asian ethnic group, a cultural expectation to not discuss family issues and a different definition of what constitutes domestic violence.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Also, because of the rate of population growth among the ethnic communities,” <span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> said, “shelters have trouble keeping up. Of the people who use the shelter’s <span class="GramE">service, about 30 percent of them are</span> Hispanic.” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Maybe the headway has been made there where is hasn’t been made elsewhere,” she said. <span class="SpellE">Bergquist’s</span> legal background has helped her with her current research. In addition to teaching at UNLV, she also does pro bono work for the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. Part of what brought her attention to the subject of domestic violence among minority groups was her work at Legal Aid, where she primarily sees Asian-Pacific clients. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Immigration often goes hand-in-hand with family law,” she said, “because immigrants face unique circumstances that U.S. citizens don’t.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Immigration is often used by the batterers,” <span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> said. “Sometimes, the person committing the domestic battery will say that filing a police report will lead to one or both being deported as a way to keep the victim from reporting the crime.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> plans to go out to the service providers, along with eight research assistants, and conduct interviews and focus groups to find out who is using the services and what things are being done right. The project must be completed by the end of the year, and <span class="SpellE">Bergquist</span> said the initial research should be finished by the end of the semester.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“My hope is that it will provide valuable information, “ <span class="SpellE">Berquist</span> said. “Just by asking questions, it will raise awareness about the issue.”</div>William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-64141774087936180662010-12-20T17:40:00.001-08:002010-12-20T17:40:43.289-08:00Professor Sylvia Lazos Fights for Equality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_SylviaLazos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_SylviaLazos.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/sylvia-Lazos.html">Sylvia Lazos</a>, Justice Myron Leavitt Professor of Law, has been researching issues of diversity since arriving at the UNLV Boyd School of Law in 2003. She has written on a variety of issues, including how initiatives by the electorate affect the civil rights of minorities, the difficulties in appointing judges who are minorities and women to the federal bench, and in general, why the concept of "diversity" has not easily gained access to mainstream legal thought.<br />
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Her latest project is an empirical investigation of whether judicial performance evaluations are fair to minorities and women judges. Her interest in this project began when she was enlisted to help form a panel for the National Association of Women Judges for the purpose of commenting on a recent controversy in Missouri. The Missouri State Bar administered judicial performance evaluations that were published on the Internet in order to aid voters to cast an informed vote in retention elections. However, a recent statistical study had revealed that the survey used in Missouri scored women judges eight points lower than men, and black judges ten points lower than white judges, on a 100-point scale.<br />
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In the upcoming issue of <i>Law and Society Review</i>, Lazos will publish with her co-author, political scientist Dr. Rebecca Gill, an analysis of the judicial evaluation polls conducted by an independent consultant hired by the <i>Las Vegas Review-Journal</i>. The judicial evaluation poll data from 1998-2008 found that even after statistically controlling for judicial qualifications and performance records, women on average score 11.5 points lower than their male colleagues. Lazos and Gill attribute this rating difference to systemic unconscious bias, because there is no evidence that women judges as a group are less qualified than men. Unconscious bias, as distinct from explicit prejudices, cause people who believe they are neutral to nonetheless make judgments linked to race, gender or other factors.<br />
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Lazos and research assistant Mallory Waters have just completed analysis of another data set of judicial performance evaluations from Missouri, also controlling for qualitative and performance factors and found similar results in this data set. Even after controlling for experience, education, and other factors, women judges on average are rated 10 points lower than male judges.<br />
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In the next phase of Lazos's work, she will be looking to enlist the help of local judges to observe how the court room is different for women judges as opposed to male judges, and to confirm her theory that gender bias is at work in explaining the consistently lower evaluations that women receive in this state.<br />
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Lazos’s other research interests are in the area of education. She has been serving on the Clark County Superintendent's Equal Opportunities Advisory Commission since January 2010. Just recently named a Lincy Institute Fellow, she is working with colleagues from the <a href="http://education.unlv.edu/">UNLV College of Education</a> to determine the efficacy of English Language Learner programs currently in use at the elementary school level at CCSD. This research, funded by The Lincy Institute, will help identify the teaching practices that are most effective. These research-based recommendations will be presented as part of a <a href="http://brookingsmtnwest.unlv.edu/">Brookings Mountain West</a> event in May 2011. Lazos believes that this research work is the beginning of a truly collaborative research partnership with CCSDWilliam S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-36146109473049404102010-12-20T17:40:00.000-08:002010-12-20T17:40:04.217-08:00Professor Keith Rowley Strives to Serve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_KeithRowley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_KeithRowley.jpg" /></a>In May and July 2010, respectively, the American Law Institute (ALI) and the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) approved extensive amendments to the official text of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9, governing personal property security interests. William S. Boyd Professor of Law <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/keith-Rowley.html">Keith Rowley</a> actively participated in 18 months of UCC Article 9 Joint Review Committee meetings and conference calls that culminated in the amendments and accompanying commentary. <br />
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That experience has already paid dividends for students enrolled in his Secured Transactions course; forms the basis of an article he is writing for the <i>American Bankruptcy Institute Journal</i>; has provided additional fuel for his ongoing research and writing about what he calls the “Polyform Commercial Code,” a portion of which he presented in mid-November at the University of Tulsa College of Law; and is infiltrating a less provocative book about the law of secured transactions he is currently writing for Aspen (Wolters Kluwer). It has also made him the resident expert on the proposed amendments and the de facto liaison to the Nevada Bar and the Nevada Legislature, which may take up a bill to enact some or all of the amendments after it convenes in early 2011. <br />
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This latter role is not unfamiliar: after reading a two-part article Rowley wrote for the <i>Nevada Lawyer</i> in 2004 (which later morphed into a longer, updated article in the <i>Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal</i> and continues to thrive as a periodically-updated on-line resource), then-Senator Terry Care sought Rowley’s counsel during the 2005 legislative session regarding pending bills proposing to revise or amend six articles of Nevada’s version of the UCC. Rowley has since consulted with legislators, state bar leaders, and other interested parties regarding similar efforts in eleven other states and keeps a wide audience updated on UCC legislative developments (and related topics) through two blogs to which he contributes, his <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/rowley/">Boyd website</a>, and his work as Developments Reporter for the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s UCC Committee.<br />
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In addition to serving all who legislate, adjudicate, practice, teach, study, or are otherwise affected by commercial law through his work with the ALI, the ABA, and his presence in the cybersphere, Rowley more directly serves the legal academy through leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Having chaired the AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law until the January 2010 AALS annual meeting in New Orleans, Rowley continues to serve on that section’s executive committee as Immediate Past Chair. In January 2010, he became Chair-Elect of AALS Section on Contracts, and will take over as Chair at the January 2011 AALS annual meeting in San Francisco.<br />
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Rowley pursues scholarship across a broad spectrum of contract and commercial law topics (while also indulging a passion for law and popular culture that has thus far produced a book chapter on lawyers and lawyering on <i>The West Wing</i>, contributions to two <i>ABA Journa</i>l cover articles and another forthcoming in <i>National Jurist</i>, and several conference papers). Along with several law review articles, book chapters, and conference papers in various stages of progress, and his forthcoming book for Aspen, he is also currently writing a second book on selected topics in the law of contracts for LexisNexis, and is under contract to write a third. Just as Rowley’s involvement in the Article 9 amendment process informs the secured transactions book he is writing for Aspen, his awareness-raising and consulting efforts pertaining to UCC Articles 1, 2, and 2A will benefit both of the LexisNexis books.<br />
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In addition to pursuing his own scholarship, Rowley also devotes considerable effort to promoting scholarship across a broad spectrum of contract and commercial law topics.<br />
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In January, Rowley moderated a program he conceived and organized for the AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law on the recently-promulgated ALI Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. The program – <i><b>The Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes of Article 2B and UCITA?</b></i> – yielded a print symposium in the <i>Tulane Law Review</i>, which Rowley organized, and is the launching point for a book-length collection of essays, responses, and replies.<br />
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In February, Rowley brought more than 80 legal academics and practicing attorneys from thirty-one states and several foreign countries to the Boyd campus for the <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/rowley/2010ContractsConferenceProgram022410.pdf">2010 Spring Conference on Contracts</a>, which received rave reviews virtually guaranteeing a sequel in the not-too-distant future. Several papers presented at the conference have since appeared, or are forthcoming, in a variety of law reviews.<br />
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In January 2011, Rowley will moderate a program he has conceived and spent considerable time this fall organizing for the AALS Section on Contracts. <i><b>Navigating Lombard Street in a Fog: Seeking (or Ignoring) Landmarks of Intent and Context</b></i> will explore foundational issues including whether the parties’ intent is or should be an integral part of contemporary contract law; the extent to which context affects or should affect a party’s ability to consent or the significance of its manifested consent; and, assuming that intent and context matter, how best to determine and give effect to the parties’ intent in the context of their transaction. The discussion promises to be lively and the program, like the 2010 Spring Contracts Conference, will provide a platform for several emerging contract scholars as well as a showcase for some of the leading lights in the field.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-52837336598290515882010-12-20T17:11:00.000-08:002010-12-20T17:11:22.348-08:00Professor Marketa Trimble Joins the Boyd School of Law Faculty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_MarketaTrimble.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_MarketaTrimble.jpg" /></a>The Boyd School of Law is fortunate to be the home of not only nationally but also internationally recognized scholars in the fields of international law and intellectual property law. This year the Boyd community welcomed a new addition to this group of renowned scholars and respected educators – <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/marketa-trimble.html">Professor Marketa Trimble</a>. Her research concerning cross-border aspects of intellectual property law combines her interest in both fields and provides insights that are extremely valuable in the global economy.<br />
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In her forthcoming book on cross-border enforcement of patents Professor Trimble explores the challenges that patent holders face because of the existing patent regime, which despite the global use of inventions, still follows a country-by-country model for protecting those inventions. Notwithstanding efforts at the international level to create a system that would facilitate patenting in multiple countries, inventors still find the costs of doing so prohibitive. Most patent holders can patent their inventions in only one or a few countries and therefore relinquish the benefits from their inventions in much of the world. Professor Trimble uses examples from the United States and Germany – the two largest patent litigation venues in the world – to show how patent holders attempt to mitigate the problem by reaching activities in third countries through U.S. and German patent laws. Her book will be published by Oxford University Press in 2012.<br />
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In her research, which also concerns cross-border problems in copyright, Professor Trimble uses her broad experience, education and foreign language abilities. She came to the United States from Europe, where she worked as a lawyer for the government of the Czech Republic. In her capacity as head of the European Union Law Unit at the Czech Ministry of Justice, she prepared the country for membership in the European Union in the area of cross-border judicial cooperation, conflict of laws and enforcement of intellectual property. She represented the country in the committees of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, where she also worked as a national legal expert in Eurostat, the central statistical body of the European Union. After moving to the United States and interning for a judge she returned to law school and earned master’s and doctoral degrees at Stanford Law School to complement her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Czech Republic, all of which contribute to her valuable and unique background.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-53920953646621131172010-12-20T17:10:00.000-08:002010-12-20T19:52:22.499-08:00Spotlight: Alumnus Michael J. Higdon ’01<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_MichaelHigdon2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_E-Newsletter_2010Nov_MichaelHigdon2.jpg" width="292" /></a>Michael J. Higdon ’01 is a Boyd School of Law alumnus of many firsts. He was the first student Editor-in-Chief of the <i>Nevada Law Journal</i>, the first graduate to be hired as a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals law clerk, the first graduate hired to teach at Boyd, and the first graduate hired as a tenure-track law professor.<br />
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Recognized for his talents, Higdon caught the attention of other law schools and secured a tenure-track position at the University of Tennessee College of Law. He was appointed <a href="http://www.law.utk.edu/faculty/higdon/index.shtml">Associate Professor of Law</a> beginning in 2009.<br />
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Higdon teaches and writes in the areas of family law; sexuality, gender and the law; and legal writing. He also has published in the areas of law and rhetoric; and wills, trusts, and estates. His work has been published in a number of journals including the <i>Wake Forest Law Review</i>, the <i>U.C. Davis Law Review</i>, and the <i>Indiana Law Journal</i>. Higdon’s work has caught the attention of some of the leader’s in his disciplines. For instance, his article on <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1009981">informal adoption</a> is cited in Dukeminier’s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wills-Trusts-Estates-Eighth-Dukeminier/dp/0735579962/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291070685&sr=8-1-spell">Wills, Trusts, and Estates</a></i>, the leading textbook in that area. <br />
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Additionally, in August, Higdon was quoted in <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2008119,00.html"><i>Time</i> magazine</a> as a result of a piece he wrote, focusing on methods of teaching and critique. The article features Higdon’s comparison between teaching and the reality TV show <i>Project Runway</i>, pointing out methods of critique used on reality television shows and how those examples can help law professors offer more effective critique to law students.<br />
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At present a member of the Legal Writing Institute’s Board of Directors, Higdon has also given presentations at a number of universities, most recently at Arizona State University School of Law. <br />
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His most recent article, “To Lynch a Child: Bullying and Gender Non-Conformity in Our Nation's Schools,” forthcoming in the <i>Indiana Law Journal</i>, builds on previous articles he has written relating to discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation. Higdon currently serves on an LGBT commission at the University of Tennessee, which is dedicated to making the university a more inclusive environment for LGBT students.<br />
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When asked about his future in terms of scholarship, Higdon said, “both my immediate and long-term goals are to continue writing pieces that focus, generally, in the area of law and psychology but, more specifically, the way in which bias and prejudice influence the legislative process and the degree to which law can have a psychological impact on minority communities in the U.S.”<br />
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Higdon adds that: “I enjoy the process of research and writing scholarly articles, primarily because I love teaching; scholarship makes me a more critical thinker and, thus, a better teacher.” <br />
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Before teaching, Higdon began his career as a law clerk. Upon graduation from Boyd, he was selected from intense competition to be a judicial law clerk for Judge Procter Hug, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before practicing commercial litigation and employment law for two years with the Las Vegas firm of Schreck Brignone (now part of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck).<br />
In 2004, Higdon was hired as a Boyd faculty member. He served as Lawyering Process Professor from July 2004 to July 2009. He also was invited to serve as a visiting professor at Seattle University School of Law.<br />
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While teaching at Boyd, Higdon was recognized by the student body as the 2006 law faculty member of the year. He also coached several outstanding student moot court teams and served as adviser to the Society of Advocates, the Boyd School of Law’s moot court program. In 2009, Higdon was named the William S. Boyd School of Law Alumnus of the Year, the highest and most prestigious alumni award given by the school.<br />
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A Summa Cum Laude graduate of Boyd’s charter class, Higdon is a recipient of the James E. Rogers Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. He holds a B.A. in English from Erskine College, Due West, SC, and an M.A. in Communication Studies from UNLV.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001270445418353530.post-947359720071749532010-03-17T16:47:00.001-07:002010-03-17T16:47:30.727-07:00Professor Jeffrey Stempel Wins Liberty Mutual Prize<a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_FacultySpotlight_photo_JeffStempel2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.law.unlv.edu/images/email_BSLnews_FacultySpotlight_photo_JeffStempel2.jpg" width="205" /></a>In February 2010, <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/jeffrey-Stempel.html">Professor Jeffrey Stempel</a> was named the winner of the Liberty Mutual Prize. The prize is awarded annually for an exceptional article on the law of property and casualty insurance, its regulation and corporate governance.<br />
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Entries are judged by a panel consisting of judges, attorneys, and professors having particular expertise in the insurance law field, who evaluate submissions on the basis of quality of analysis, originality, thoroughness of research, creativity, and clarity of thought and expression. Professor Stempel’s article, "<a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/pdf/email_BSLNews_JeffreyStempel_2010-03_WilliamMaryFeb18-2010.pdf">The Insurance Contract as a Social Instrument and Social Institution</a>," was "the clear and unanimous choice of the panel," according to the notification of the award.<br />
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The article will be published in 2010 by the William & Mary Law Review. In addition, Professor Stempel has been invited to formally present the article this fall at Boston College Law School.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/john-White.html">Dean John Valery White</a> of the Boyd School of Law, "This is a significant honor for Jeff and, by association, for the law school. While we all know Jeff's work is great, it is nice to see a confirmation of our assessment by others.”<br />
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Professor Stempel’s article suggests that insurance policies are not merely contracts but also are designed to perform particular risk management, deterrence, and compensation functions important to economic and social ordering. This fact, he writes, "has significant implications regarding the manner in which insurance policies are construed in coverage disputes." Specifically, traditional contract analysis should be supplemented by appreciation of the particular function of the policy in dispute as part of the insurance product's larger role as a social and economic instrument or institution.<br />
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The article examines in detail the frequently litigated issue of how many "occurrences" have taken place within the meaning of liability instance. It also considers issues of "business risk," "accidental" events, liquor liability exclusions, claims for inherent diminished value of vehicles involved in automobile collisions, trigger of coverage, and the workers' compensation implications of post-injury suicide.William S. Boyd School of Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15904972873023463974noreply@blogger.com0