Frank Rudy Cooper (Law) was awarded a Tenth Anniversary Award by Howard University Law School and the John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop earlier this month in Washington, D.C.

Ruben J. Garcia (Law) recently was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. This national organization consists of academics, labor and management lawyers who have distinguished themselves as outstanding professionals in the field and meet the standards of integrity, professionalism, and character. The induction event…

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill arguing that the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rulemakings and interpretive releases weaken investor protection.

Benjamin Edwards (Law) recently published a piece, "How to Craft Policies on Innovative Corporate Law Provisions," on the Columbia Blue Sky Blog, an online publication affiliated with Columbia Law School. The piece describes a new article forthcoming in the Tennessee Business Law Journal.

Joseph McKay (Law and Hospitality) and Gail Sammons (Hospitality), along with Kimberly Addair, '18 MA Urban Leadership, received the Best Proposal Award Teaching Track from the West Federation Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education Regional Conference for their work developing a human trafficking awareness training module for…

Ruben J. Garcia (Law) published an article, "Right-to-Work Laws: Ideology and Impact," in volume 15 of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2019) in which he argues that Nevada provides an exception to the usual detrimental political and bargaining environment that RTW laws present to unions, and he describes the lessons that the…

Professor Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) presented Performance-Based Investor Protection at Michigan State College of Law's workshop on business law & technology. The draft paper argues that regulators now rely too much on disclosure-based protections, which do little to protect our financially illiterate population.  

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) presented a new draft paper, "Performance-Based Investor Protection," at a workshop on financial regulation at Indiana's Mauer School of Law. The draft makes the case for a comprehension-based framework for regulating investment advice. Participants included faculty from the Columbia Law School, University of Pennsylvania…

Eve Hanan and Anne Traum (both Law) presented a webinar for the national teaching justice webinar series of the Clinical Legal Education Association earlier this month. Hanan and Traum discussed pedagogical opportunities for raising broad criminal justice themes within the context of supervising students in court.

Stacey Tovino (Law) placed her latest article, “Going Rogue: Mobile Research Applications and the Right to Privacy,” in the Notre Dame Law Review. Building on her past works examining patient privacy and health information confidentiality, “Going Rogue” examines the privacy and security implications of mobile application-mediated health research…

Jennifer Roberts and Natice Locke (both International Center for Gaming Regulation) were published in the Clark County Bar Association's "Communique." Their article is on the current status of sports betting in the United States. 

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill addressing the need for the House Financial Services Committee to question the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about its strategic plans for advancing consumer protection.  The op-ed was with Christopher Odinet, an associate professor of law and the Univeristy of Oklahoma College…