Professor Kathy Stanchi (Law) was awarded the 2023 Penny Pether Award for Law and Language Scholarship for her article "The Rhetoric of Racism in the United States Supreme Court" published in the Boston College Law Review. 

Professor Rebecca Scharf (Law) was elected to the position of Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Defamation and Privacy. 

Nancy Rapoport (Law) served as the moderator for a panel discussion on "Preserving the Public Trust: The Need for Strict Adherence to the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and Other Ethical Principles" at the American Bankruptcy Institute's (ABI) Annual Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. 

Professor Nachman Gutowski (Law) was an invited participant at the AccessLex Building Bar Skills Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference centered around NextGen Bar Exam preparedness.

Professor Nancy Rapoport (Law) presented for Harvard Law School's Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency Seminar on her new project titled: “Am I My Colleague’s Keeper When It Comes to Disclosing Connections?".

Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) authored an encyclopedia entry on "Geoblocking" for the Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law. 

Professor Jean Sternlight (Law) was on a panel at the American Bar Association (ABA) Dispute Resolution Section's Annual Spring Conference in San Diego titled, “The Slow Professor: A Better Approach for Dispute Resolution Scholarship?”

Last week, Benjamin Edwards (Law) hosted the Midyear Meeting for the Public Investor Advocate Bar Association at UNLV. He moderated one panel on "Lies, Damn Lies, and FINRA Statistics" and spoke as a panelist on "AI, the SEC, and Changing Investor Landscape."  

Benjamin Edwards (Law) spoke on April 10 at a CLE sponsored by the Nevada Bankers Association on using business entities in estate planning. 

Professor Nancy Rapoport (Law) gave the keynote speech entitled Failing to See What’s in Front of Our Eyes: The Effect of Cognitive Errors on Corporate Scandals at the William & Mary Law Review Spring Symposium on Corporate Scandals: Trends in Corporate Fraud. 

Professor Lori Johnson (Law) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), the leading organization of legal writing professors. LWI supports legal writing teaching and scholarship, as well as works to improve the status of legal writing faculty nationwide.

Nantiya Ruan (Law) was one of eight law professors that submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case, on the compelling history and context necessary for protecting the rights of unhoused people to allow them to live with dignity.