Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law
David Orentlicher (Law) recently published “Politics and the Supreme Court: The Need for Ideological Balance,” in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. The divisive battle over the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court reflects a disturbing reality — the justices’ personal ideologies exert undue influence on the court’s…
Ann C. McGinley and Benjamin P. Edwards (both Law) published an op-ed in the Las Vegas Sun pointing out that legal ethics rules constrain the ability of attorney general candidates to associate with and endorse groups that use false and misleading speech.
Ruben J. Garcia (Law) has been appointed to a project based at the Harvard Law School labor and worklife program titled "Rebalancing Political and Economic Power: A Clean Slate for the Future of Labor Law." The project began with a convening of law professors, labor attorneys, and organizers at Harvard Law School in July.…
Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) presented a paper at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's annual institute. His paper addressed the ethical obligations for lawyers serving on corporate boards. The institute peer-reviews all submissions and publishes them.
Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was appointed by Rudy Fichtenbaum, president of the American Association of University Professors, to the organization's Committee on College and University Governance for a three-year term.
Linda H. Edwards (Law) received the Legal Writing Institute's (LWI) Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Writing for her article “Telling Stories in the Supreme Court: Voices Briefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation,” published in Volume 29 (2017) of the Yale Journal of Law and…
Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill explaining why Trump's tweet tipping the Labor Department's Employment Report undermines financial institutions.
Eve Hanan (Law) presented last week on two panels at the Association of American Law Schools Conference on Clinical Legal Education. Both panels addressed how to teach lawyering skills in novel and changing areas of legal practice.
Ruben Garcia (Law) presented "Responding to Janus v. AFSCME" at the annual meeting of the National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions in New York City earlier this month.
Eve Hanan (Law) presented her research on the implications of neuroplasticity in criminal sentencing decisions at the University of New Mexico School of Law in Albuquerque earlier this month.
Eve Hanan (Law) presented on the “Advancing Social Justice Through ADR” panel at the annual conference of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section in Washington, D.C.
Lydia Nussbaum (Law) recently provided an op-ed piece to the Las Vegas Review-Journal titled "School Discipline Reform Didn't Create Florida Shooter — and Can Help Kids Who Need It." In the piece she not only corrects the record on a recent article regarding the Florida shooting and school discipline reform, but also explains how school districts…