Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law

Marketa Trimble (Law) contributed a blog post to the Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The post, "The Legal Implications of Datacenter Location," discusses a recent opinion that suggests that venue for patent litigation might be proper in the court where datacenter servers are located.
Marketa Trimble (Law) published a blog post, "The False Sense of Victory in Bypassing The Hague Convention on Service of Process," on in Patently-O. The blog post, discusses problems associated with a recent court decision that permits alternative service of process on a defendant in China. 
Benjamin Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in the Nevada Independent.  His opinion piece argues that investors should remain cautious with hedge funds and with financial advisers who promote them.
Marketa Trimble (Law) published a chapter, "Intellectual Property Law and Geography" in Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives, edited by Irene Calboli and Maria Lillà Montagnani.
Benjamin Edwards (Law) recently published a synopsis of his article "Supreme Risk" in the Duke FinReg Blog.  The post is based on an article forthcoming in the Florida Law Review.  It highlights how legal doctrines resurging with the post-Trump era Supreme Court pose a risk to the financial system.  
Benjamin Edwards (Law) published a short piece summarizing a recent article highlighting how the post-Trump era Supreme Court poses systemic risk to the global financial system in the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog. Many financial markets depend on the steady functioning of self-regulatory organizations. Yet these…
Eve Hanan (Law), co-director of the Misdemeanor Clinic, spoke at a Mob Museum panel discussing the new documentary, Racially Charged, which examines how misdemeanors serve as an engine for racially discriminatory policing and criminal justice debt. 
Eve Hanan (Law) published an article, Talking Back in Court, in the Washington Law Review. The article analyzes three types of power that prevent defendants from responding to opportunities to advocate for themselves in court: sovereign, disciplinary, and social-emotional power. The article argues that the dynamics of social-emotional…
David Orentlicher (Law) recently discussed, “From the Academy to the Legislature: Translating Health Policy into Law," at the 2021 Annual Health Health Law Professors Conference of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Marketa Trimble (Law) authored chapter "Intellectual Property and Geography," which was published by Oxford University Press in edited volume "Handbook of Intellectual Property Research." In the chapter, Trimble explores the various facets of the “law and geography” research prism, notes the existing research avenues, and suggests potential…
Ruben J. Garcia (Law) published his article "Building Worker Collective Action Through Technology" in Volume 65 of the St. Louis University Law Journal.  The article argues for the development of mobile applications for workers to leverage collective power by providing voice channels to each other and to government agencies.
Keith A. Rowley (Law) testified before the Nevada Assembly's Judiciary Committee in opposition to a bill that would have had negative repercussions to the existing commercial law regime in Nevada, potentially placing Nevada consumers and businesses at a competitive disadvantage. He then worked with the bill's proponents (and with other…