Michael Kagan (Law) served as a guest instructor at the Refugee Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv University in March. He taught three substantive law classes and presented at two research workshops on his current research involving the intersection of criminal and immigration law.

Ann McGinley (Law) presented a paper, "We Are All Contingent Workers" at Feminism and Legal Theory at 30: A Workshop on Labor and Employment Law at Emory University Law School. The workshop was part of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition project established by professor Martha Fineman at Emory. This summer McGinley will serve as a visiting…

Linda Berger (Law) was one of a dozen participants in the Rhetoric & Law Colloquium featuring Stanley Fish at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in April. The colloquium sponsored by the department of communication arts focused on rhetorical interpretations of D.C. v. Heller, which recognized an individual right of self-defense in the…

Sylvia Lazos (Law) was named the Education Advocate at the inaugural Cesar Chavez Dinner in March. Hosted by the Nevada Hispanic Legislative Caucus, the event helped provide talented Hispanic students the opportunity to attend college and learn about public service at an early age.

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,…

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.

Nancy Rapoport (Law) led a universitywide discussion, sponsored by the UNLV Women's Council, on Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In in February. Coordinator of the UNLV Leadership Development Academy, she helped present a Leadership Development Academy workshop in March on the role of presidents, provosts, and other university administrators.

Rachel Anderson (Law) received a certificate of appreciation from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada in March for "Elevating the Conversation on Issues of Racial Equity and Social Justice."

Jeffrey Stempel and Thomas Main (Law) are two of the organizers of a civil procedure symposium, "Through a Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Reassessed," which UNLV is co-hosting this month in Boston. Both men also will present papers. All papers presented at the symposium will be printed in the Nevada Law Journal.