Ruben Garcia (Law) attended the ninth annual Labor and Employment Law Scholarship Colloquium in Boulder, Colo., in September. He spoke on the topic of how the politics of minimum wage affect low-wage nonunion workers. The colloquium attracts nationally recognized scholars who gather each year to discuss works, progress, and ideas in the field of…

Rachel Anderson (Law) was featured recently in Lawyers of Color magazine's "50 Under 50" list, which recognizes the nation's most influential minority law professors who are 50 years old or younger.

Ruben Garcia (Law) presented a paper, "Who are the 'Low-Wage' Workers? Definitional Difficulties for Scholars, Teachers and Social Movements," at the Law and Society Association (LSA) annual meeting in Minneapolis. He also had duties at the conference based on his service on three association committees, including co-chair of the Collaborative…

Marketa Trimble (Law) has written three forthcoming articles. The first, titled "The Marrakesh Puzzle," will be featured in an upcoming issue of the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. Another, titled "Advancing National Intellectual Property Politics in a Transnational Context," will appear in an issue of the…

Francine Lipman (Law) recently co-wrote an article, "Heal the Suffering Children: Fifty Years After the Declaration of War on Poverty," for the Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice. He co-author was UNLV alum Dawn Davis.

Stacey Tovino (Law) has written three new law review articles. The first, "Lost in the Shuffle: How Health and Disability Laws Hurt Problem Gamblers," will be featured in the Tulane Law Review. Another, titled "Silence Is Golden ... Except in Health Care Philanthropy," will appear in the University of Richmond Law Review. Her third article, "…

Ann McGinley (Law) presented a paper, "We Are All Contingent Workers" at Feminism and Legal Theory at 30: A Workshop on Labor and Employment Law at Emory University Law School. The workshop was part of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition project established by professor Martha Fineman at Emory. This summer McGinley will serve as a visiting…

Linda Berger (Law) was one of a dozen participants in the Rhetoric & Law Colloquium featuring Stanley Fish at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in April. The colloquium sponsored by the department of communication arts focused on rhetorical interpretations of D.C. v. Heller, which recognized an individual right of self-defense in the…

Sylvia Lazos (Law) was named the Education Advocate at the inaugural Cesar Chavez Dinner in March. Hosted by the Nevada Hispanic Legislative Caucus, the event helped provide talented Hispanic students the opportunity to attend college and learn about public service at an early age.

Ngai Pindell (Law) led a session at the 2014 Associate Deans' Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado Law School. His session was titled "Taking the Lessons of Critical Competencies into the Curriculum: Answering the How Questions." It helped answer the question of how to take advantage of the resources available for legal education,…

Jean Sternlight and Lydia Nussbaum (both Law) gave a universitywide talk sponsored by the UNLV Women's Council in April on the topic of "Negotiation Strategies for Women." In addition to discussing social science literature regarding how negotiation styles may differ by gender, their talk provided practical tips on how to negotiate in personal and…

Marketa Trimble (Law) presented a paper, "Foreigners in U.S. Patent Litigation: An Empirical Study of Patent Cases Filed in Nine U.S. Federal District Courts in 2004, 2009, and 2012" in San Diego at the PatCon 4 conference, the largest annual conference for patent scholars in the world. The article will be published in the Vanderbilt Journal of…