David Tanenhaus (Law) is co-editor, along with law professor Franklin E. Zimring from the University of California, Berkeley, of the book, Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (NYU Press).

Elizabeth MacDowell (Law) presented her work in progress, "Rethinking Access to Justice: Self-help, Advocacy and the Poor People's Courts," at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference. She also presented her empirical research on the project as part of the Bellow Scholars' panel at the conference.

Stacey Tovino (Law) gave a talk titled "Mental Health Benefit Disparities after the Affordable Care Act" in March at a mental health law symposium hosted by the Mississippi College School of Law's Bioethics and Health Law Center. The symposium was titled "Mental Health in Mississippi." In April she gave a talk as part of a Translational…

Jeanne Price and David McClure (both Law) participated in a panel discussion on Gamifying Access at the Nevada Conference on Digital Learning held at UNLV in April. Their talk was titled "Institutional Repositories as Gamified Environments to Stimulate Student Agency and Faculty Impact."

Rachel Anderson (Law) moderated a Black History Month panel on Judicial and Black Legal History in Nevada. The February event was sponsored by the Clark County Black Caucus.

Michael Kagan (Law) served as a guest instructor at the Refugee Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv University in March. He taught three substantive law classes and presented at two research workshops on his current research involving the intersection of criminal and immigration law.

Rachel Anderson (Law) received a certificate of appreciation from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada in March for "Elevating the Conversation on Issues of Racial Equity and Social Justice."

Jeffrey Stempel and Thomas Main (Law) are two of the organizers of a civil procedure symposium, "Through a Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Reassessed," which UNLV is co-hosting this month in Boston. Both men also will present papers. All papers presented at the symposium will be printed in the Nevada Law Journal.

Rebecca Scharf (Law) recently was elected to the national Board of Directors for the Legal Writing Institute, a nonprofit focused on improving legal writing by creating a forum for scholarship and discussion on legal writing, analysis, and research. The institute has 2,800 members. A total of 32 candidates ran for the eight positions on the board…

Stacey Tovino (Law) will give a one-hour talk at the 8th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling this month at Harrah's in Reno. Her talk will address health insurance coverage of gambling disorders after the Affordable Care Act. In February, she gave the Distinguished Health Law Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law's Center…

Nancy Rapoport (Law) led a universitywide discussion, sponsored by the UNLV Women's Council, on Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In in February. Coordinator of the UNLV Leadership Development Academy, she helped present a Leadership Development Academy workshop in March on the role of presidents, provosts, and other university administrators.

Francine Lipman (Law) spoke at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in January. She participated in a panel discussion titled "Fifty Years After the War on Poverty: Evaluating Past Enactments and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Addressing Poverty in the 21st Century." The discussion focused on how the federal role in…