Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law

Professor Joan Howarth (Law) gave the keynote presentation, Radical Reinvention of Law School, at the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium with Claudia Angelos, Mary Lu Bilek and Deborah Merritt. 
Professor Joan Howarth (Law) was appointed to the Bar Admissions Working Group for the Committee of Legal Education and Admissions Reform (CLEAR) at the Conference of Chief Justices/Conference of State Court Administrators. 
Professor Michael Kagan's (Law) latest article, "A Faster Way to Yes," will be published in the Georgetown Law Journal. The article proposes ways to streamline asylum adjudication without structurally biasing the asylum system toward rejection of asylum applications.
Professor Michael Kagan (Law), who teaches administrative law at UNLV, presented about the major question doctrine at the Ninth Circuit Chief District Court Judges' Conference in Phoenix. 
Professor Patience Crowder (Law) was part of a panel discussion, "Brown v. Board of Education: 70 Years Later - Lessons Learned" at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse. 
On Thursday, March 7, as part of a panel presentation, Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) spoke on A New Focus on the War Exclusion:  The Insurance Industry Confronts the Issue of "State-Sponsored" Cyber Incidents at the American Bar Association Litigation Section 2024 Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar in Tucson, Arizona.
Professor Nantiya Ruan (Law) developed and facilitated a forum discussion on Bias in Ad-Delivery Algorithms at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in NYC, which featured academicians in computer science, data privacy and civil rights class action attorneys. 
Professor Keith Rowley (Law) has been elected a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, which counts among its members many leading practitioners and a select few leading academics in the field of commercial law.
Professor David Tanenhaus (Law; History) will present a paper in May on the history of juvenile justice at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany.
Professor Francine Lipman (Law) was a panelist on the 2024 Immigrant Tax Issues webinar hosted by the National Immigration Law Center. 
Professor Justin Iverson (Law) has joined the Nevada Prison Education Project (NPEP) team. NPEP aims to create higher education coursework and programs at the community college and university level that lead to advanced degrees, certifications, and other valuable credentials. 
Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) delivered comments as an invited speaker at the 2024 Consumer Law Scholar's Conference at Berkeley Law.