Ngai Pindell (Law) led a session at the 2014 Associate Deans' Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado Law School. His session was titled "Taking the Lessons of Critical Competencies into the Curriculum: Answering the How Questions." It helped answer the question of how to take advantage of the resources available for legal education,…

UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble and UNLV Jazz Ensemble I (both Music) won awards at the 2014 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in California in March. The Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Uli Geissendoerfer, won second place in the Open Combo Division and Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb , garnered a third place award in the College Big Band…

Jean Sternlight and Lydia Nussbaum (both Law) gave a universitywide talk sponsored by the UNLV Women's Council in April on the topic of "Negotiation Strategies for Women." In addition to discussing social science literature regarding how negotiation styles may differ by gender, their talk provided practical tips on how to negotiate in personal and…

Marketa Trimble (Law) presented a paper, "Foreigners in U.S. Patent Litigation: An Empirical Study of Patent Cases Filed in Nine U.S. Federal District Courts in 2004, 2009, and 2012" in San Diego at the PatCon 4 conference, the largest annual conference for patent scholars in the world. The article will be published in the Vanderbilt Journal of…

David Tanenhaus (Law) is co-editor, along with law professor Franklin E. Zimring from the University of California, Berkeley, of the book, Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (NYU Press).

Elizabeth MacDowell (Law) presented her work in progress, "Rethinking Access to Justice: Self-help, Advocacy and the Poor People's Courts," at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference. She also presented her empirical research on the project as part of the Bellow Scholars' panel at the conference.

Stacey Tovino (Law) gave a talk titled "Mental Health Benefit Disparities after the Affordable Care Act" in March at a mental health law symposium hosted by the Mississippi College School of Law's Bioethics and Health Law Center. The symposium was titled "Mental Health in Mississippi." In April she gave a talk as part of a Translational…

Jeanne Price and David McClure (both Law) participated in a panel discussion on Gamifying Access at the Nevada Conference on Digital Learning held at UNLV in April. Their talk was titled "Institutional Repositories as Gamified Environments to Stimulate Student Agency and Faculty Impact."

Rachel Anderson (Law) moderated a Black History Month panel on Judicial and Black Legal History in Nevada. The February event was sponsored by the Clark County Black Caucus.