Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law

Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) appeared on the Power Hour Blogcast hosted by The Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University with former acting Secretary of Labor and host Seth Harris and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board Mark G. Pearce to discuss the State of Labor in 2023.
Professor Ruben Garcia (Law) was on the Power Hour blogcast as part of a panel discussion on conversation on the politics of labor and labor in politics, the unfinished business of pro-worker legislation, unfinished business at the NLRB, and bargaining over new technologies. 
Professor John Valery White (Law) has been nominated to serve on the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Executive Committee. His nomination will be voted on at the Meeting of the House of Representatives at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in January 2024. 
Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was featured on the Fox 5 Vegas channel on the "Ask the Experts" segment to discuss the strides made by labor nationally and locally in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.
Kathy Stanchi's (Law) recently published chapter is now part of an award-winner book. The Rhetoric of Judging Well: The Conflicted Legacy of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (Penn State 2023) was awarded the Distinguished Publication Award by the Communication and Law Section of the National Communication Association (NCA). Professor…
Professor Mary Beth Beazley (Law) gave a training on Opinion Writing for the Appellate Courts on behalf of the National Judicial College. The training, which took place on Nov. 17, was held in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Nov. 17 and was sponsored by the Indiana Appellate Courts. It was attended by clerks for the Indiana appellate courts and the…
Nancy Rapoport (Law) presented at the 42nd Annual Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference on a panel entitled “A.I. in the Bankruptcy Practice and the Ethics Involved.”
Jeffrey Stempel and Jennifer Roberts (both Law) conducted a presentation on "Ethics in Gaming" at the 2023 Gaming Law Conference on Nov. 17.
Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) participated in a panel as part of the Transatlantic Lectures on Insurance Law series sponsored by the European Law Institute Insurance Group. The panel was on "Fissures and Fault Lines in U.S. Insurance Law: The Impact of Dual Systems and Multiple Forums Creating Divergent Outcomes."
Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) co-authored an op-ed, "Long overdue, FINRA's expungement reforms are still inadequate," for Financial Planning, which argues that reforms to the FINRA process for expunging complaints against brokers will not work. 
Jeff Stempel (Law) gave a presentation last week on "Information Duties in Insurance: Contract Formation and Other Issues" at the III Congresso Internacional de Direito do Seguro, IX Forum de Direito do Seguro, Brasilia, Brazil. 
Nachman Gutowski (Law) presented and moderated several sessions at LexCon ’23 by AccessLex in Chicago. His talks were entitled “Measuring Success: Evolving Approaches to Data Collection and Reporting,” as well as "The Genius Hour: Academic and Bar Success." He moderated two panels, “ChatGPT in the Classroom,” and “Put Your Oxygen Mask On First:…