David Orentlicher (Law) was appointed by the Uniform Law Commission as the Vice-Chair of its Study Committee. The committee will examine the question whether people born via assisted reproduction should be able to learn the identity of an egg or sperm donor whose donation led to their birth.

Keith Rowley (Law) recently attended the annual meeting of the Uniform Law Commission, where he participated in discussions with the drafting committees of several acts and proposed changes that were incorporated into the texts of the subsequently-approved Uniform Consumer Debt Default Judgments Act, Uniform Restrictions in Land Records Act, and…

Professor Julián Barroso-Merino (World Languages and Cultures Department) presented "Cognitive, metacognitive strategies and processing fluency in acquisition of Spanish vocabulary" during the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2023 Conference in Salamanca, Spain, on June 26-29. This case analysis demonstrates that…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office, about the range of interpersonal, interactive, and interesting workshops that the Ombuds Office offers to campus.  For more information about the Ombuds Office, please visit its website. 

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) developed and led two continuing education courses during the Academy of General Dentistry annual meeting in July. Her presentations are titled, “The Mouth-Body Connection: Oral Manifestations of Systemic Diseases,” and “What is It and What Do I Do with It: Common Oral Lesions and Their Management.” Shah also organized and…

Benjamin Edwards (Law) co-wrote a blog post, "FINRA Faces Uphill Battle in Case Challenging Its Enforcement Authority," that was published in the Columbia Blue Sky Blog, one of the nation's top blogs for corporate and securities law. The post features scholarship on the risk that court decisions may destabilize financial regulators.

David Orentlicher (Law) published an article, "Gun Regulation and the U.S. Constitution," in a special issue on U.S. law for a French legal journal that publishes research on International, Comparative, and European Law, Confluence des droits_La revue. 

Joan Howarth (Law) has been announced as a speaker at the AccessLex Legal Education Research Symposium in Chicago on November 7-8. 

Nancy Rapoport (Law) was recently published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal (volume 97, issue 2) for an article she co-wrote with Joseph R. Tiano, Jr. titled, "Reimagining "Reasonableness" Under Section 330(a) in a World of Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence." The article discusses the differences people will see in job…