Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) presented a new draft paper, "Performance-Based Investor Protection," at a workshop on financial regulation at Indiana's Mauer School of Law. The draft makes the case for a comprehension-based framework for regulating investment advice. Participants included faculty from the Columbia Law School, University of Pennsylvania…

Eve Hanan and Anne Traum (both Law) presented a webinar for the national teaching justice webinar series of the Clinical Legal Education Association earlier this month. Hanan and Traum discussed pedagogical opportunities for raising broad criminal justice themes within the context of supervising students in court.

Stacey Tovino (Law) placed her latest article, “Going Rogue: Mobile Research Applications and the Right to Privacy,” in the Notre Dame Law Review. Building on her past works examining patient privacy and health information confidentiality, “Going Rogue” examines the privacy and security implications of mobile application-mediated health research…

Jennifer Roberts and Natice Locke (both International Center for Gaming Regulation) were published in the Clark County Bar Association's "Communique." Their article is on the current status of sports betting in the United States. 

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill addressing the need for the House Financial Services Committee to question the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about its strategic plans for advancing consumer protection.  The op-ed was with Christopher Odinet, an associate professor of law and the Univeristy of Oklahoma College…

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in the Nevada Independent this week arguing that the Nevada Legislature should enact meaningful reform on payday and title lending. The op-ed explains why it may not be economically rational for Nevadans to take out payday loans in order to pay their federal income taxes.

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity and Social Justice), Elizabeth Macdowell (Law), Emily Troshynski (Criminal Justice), and marriage and family therapist Jane Heenan facilitated a Social Justice Conversation on the topic "Gender Diversity and the Law."

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) recently published commentary in JURIST on the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection's move to roll back underwriting requirements for short-term payday and car title loans. He explains the need for state leadership on these issues.  JURIST is a Webby-award-winning legal news and commentary publication. …

Lydia Nussbaum (Law) and Sam Song (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) next month will be presenting at "Keeping Kids in School: Increasing Student Engagement," a one-day summit co-hosted by the Eighth Judicial District, the Clark County School District (CCSD), and the Nevada State Charter School Authority.  More than 200 CCSD and…

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill pointing out how personnel problems in the Trump administration may create systemic risk for the U.S. economy.

David Orentlicher (Law) authored an article, "The Physician's Duty to Treat During Pandemics," that was published in the American Journal of Public Health. As he observed, physicians assume a fundamental ethical duty to place the welfare of their patients above their own interests. Thus, for example, doctors must not exploit the patient–…

Stewart Chang (Law) published an article, "Our National Psychosis: Guns, Terror, and Hegemonic Masculinity" in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.  Chang was interviewed on the "Taking Liberties" podcast about the article.