Judge Richard Arnold of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will speak at UNLV on Oct. 7 in celebration of the opening of UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law.

His presentation is set for 7 p.m. in Marietta Tiberti Grand Hall, which is located in the Richard Tam Alumni Center. A reception and tours of the law school will take place 5-6:30 p.m.

Those wishing to attend are asked to RSVP by calling 895-3671 no later than Oct. 2.

Arnold, a highly regarded jurist whose name has been mentioned as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee, has served as chief judge of the 8th Circuit, as a member of the executive committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and as chair of the budget committee of the Judicial Conference.

An honors graduate of Yale and of the Harvard Law School, Arnold clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and was an associate at Covington & Burling before returning to Arkansas to begin a law practice. After serving on the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas and as a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers, he was appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1978. He was appointed to the 8th Circuit in 1980.

He has served on the visiting committees of the Harvard Law School and of the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Association. Articles he has written have appeared in numerous law journals, including those of Harvard, Yale, Virginia, and Arkansas.

Arnold's lecture at UNLV will be the first in a series of talks sponsored by the law school.