Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law

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…
David Orentlicher (Law) recently published the 9th edition of his co-authored health law textbook, Health Care Law and Ethics (Wolters Kluwer 2018).
Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) recently published an op-ed in The Hill on the need for financial self-regulators to internalize the costs they impose on the investing public. The op-ed is based partially on his law review article, "The Dark Side of Self-Regulation," which is forthcoming in the Cincinnati Law Review.
Lydia Nussbaum and Eve Hanan (both Law) presented "Reducing the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through Restorative Justice" for the National Council of Family and Juvenile Court Judges' conference in San Diego earlier this month.
Innovation (Research & Economic Development), the university's research magazine, recently received a Bronze Award of Excellence from District VII of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). CASE Awards of Excellence showcase best practices in alumni relations, fundraising, public/government relations, advancement…
Benjamin Edwards (Law) recently published an op-ed in The Hill on the need to make more information available for immigrants. The op-ed is based on his article, "The Professional Prospectus," which was published in the Washington and Lee Law Review.