Nancy B. Rapoport, the Gordon Silver Professor of Law, has been named interim dean of the William S. Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2012. Nancy has been with UNLV since 2007.

After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Hon. Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991.

She started her academic career at The Ohio State University College of Law in 1991. She moved from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure in 1995 to associate dean for student affairs in 1996 and professor in 1998. She served as dean and professor of law at the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. She served as dean and professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 and as professor of law from June 2006-June 2007, when she left to join the faculty at Boyd.

Rapoport's specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture. She is admitted to the bars of California, Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Nevada and of the United States Supreme Court.

A national search for a permanent dean for the Law School will commence in the near future.