Professor Michael Kagan is a noted scholar of international refugee law and immigrant rights in the United States. Before coming to the Boyd School of Law in 2011, Professor Kagan spent 10 years building legal aid programs for refugees throughout the Middle East and Asia. In addition to directing the UNLV Immigration Clinic, he has consulted on hundreds of criminal cases involving non-citizens with the Clark County Public Defender. We selected Professor Kagan as one of the City Cast 7 in 2025 because of his tireless work advocating for immigrant rights in a year when those rights are under steady and increasing attack. His research, public speaking, and role as a mentor and teacher to the next generation of immigration lawyers has created a space for clarity and hope in a time of fear and confusion.

A record-breaking donation will create a new scholarship for Las Vegas locals to attend the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV.

The number of Mountain West law-enforcement agencies that have agreed to collaborate with the federal government’s immigration enforcement efforts has risen significantly since January. Signed agreements, known as 287(g), rose from 10 to 54 in seven Mountain West states.

The ICE arrest of a youth soccer coach at his green card interview sparked headlines and protests in Salt Lake City. When KUER asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement why Jair Celis was arrested, the official statement was that he overstayed his visa. When The Salt Lake Tribune reported on his plight, ICE didn’t respond to their inquiries. Instead, they later got a response from Homeland Security on social media.

As it prepares for the introduction of the NextGen Uniform Bar Examination, the Washington Supreme Court lowered the state’s bar pass score—including for those who have sat the exam since July 2020, according to an order issued Monday.

Aside from Delaware's Court of Chancery, state business courts are relatively new, with New York and Illinois starting commercial dockets in 1993 and other states starting their own systems at a fairly steady pace ever since. As of 2019, more states had their own business courts—either a separate court or aa docket within an existing state court—than didn't.

UNLV announced the GGRM law school scholarship for first responders to earn a law degree.

The best business credit cards for new businesses can get you $0 annual fees, as much as 5% back in rewards, expense-tracking tools and other features aimed at helping recently-established businesses.

An unusual clause in the North Dakota Constitution that limits the power of the courts kept the state’s near-total abortion ban from being struck down last month. Most state Supreme Courts require a majority vote to declare a law unconstitutional. But in North Dakota, it takes a supermajority — a vote of at least four justices — for the Supreme Court to strike down a law. That’s why the state’s 2023 abortion law remains on the books even though three of five justices on the high court found it unconstitutionally vague under the North Dakota Constitution.

Early on in President Donald Trump’s administration, top officials eyed 75 daily immigration arrests across each of the 25 field offices run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). However, an analysis of daily arrest data through mid-October shows that many field offices (including the one covering Nevada) are failing to meet this threshold.

Attorneys for the Wilton Rancheria and the local casino workers’ union argued, before 9th Circuit judges Thursday morning, a case involving hundreds of Sky River workers in Elk Grove, who Unite Here Local 49 have been organizing for years.

Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada each want to appoint, not elect, the judges that sit on their business courts. But state constitutions vary as to whether they allow those appointments.