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A collection of stories highlighting UNLV experts and their analysis of all things politics in 2020.

Great places are made of great people. Here are a few who made the news in 2020.

As the pandemic tightened its grip on Nevada, the nation, and the world, UNLV responded in ways big and small. Members of the media also turned to UNLV's faculty experts for answers.

A sampling of university experts who sounded off on the year’s monumental movements surrounding race, ethnicity, and gender.

A collection of news stories highlighting UNLV’s commitment to community, health care, and research.

Diversity, safety, and success become the foundation for UNLV.
Law In The News

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency, together with Democratic majorities at both ends of the U.S. Capitol, promises to launch policy and regulatory changes that substantially affect American businesses — and that’s before the impact of 150 million Covid-19 vaccinations that are planned by the end of April.
As Donald Trump exited the White House for the final time on January 20, 2021, the industry hit a key turning point in its evolution as the New Hampshire Lottery (NHL) defeated the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) latest Wire Act Opinion.
How can you convict a president via impeachment and remove them from office when they've already left office? How can that be constitutional?

The biggest obstacle to getting undocumented immigrants in Las Vegas vaccinated against COVID-19 might not be fear of the shot, but the unwarranted fear of being outed to federal authorities, advocates said.
In the two years since the U.S. Department of Justice revised its 2011 opinion on the Federal Wire Act in an effort to halt the expansion of online casino gaming, the activity has grown from three states to five with Michigan becoming the sixth state on Friday.

A trustee charged with recovering money for crime victims of former Las Vegas Attorney Robert Graham has spent more than four years looking for assets and filed about 500 court documents.