University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of LawNew Faculty Appointments

“We aspire for our faculty members to be important scholars, excellent teachers, and influential public intellectuals. Our new colleagues will excel in these endeavors.”

John Valery WhiteDean and Professor of Law

The William S. Boyd School of Law enters its second decade with a strong foundation of excellence on which our new faculty can build successful careers as scholars and teachers.

A Community of Scholars Members of the current law school faculty have authored or contributed to more than 170 books and written more than 600 law review articles. We author casebooks, treatises, articles appearing in peer-reviewed journals, and articles appearing in highly selective law reviews. The faculty is engaged in scholarly societies and conferences meeting around the world, and often have leadership roles. The law school hosts visiting scholars (from the United States and foreign countries), conferences and colloquia to enrich the intellectual life of the community. We have established faculty exchange programs with law schools around the world to facilitate our increasingly global outreach.

Last year’s faculty hires had an impressive �rst year at Boyd, including pathbreaking scholarship.

Stacey Tovino

All Illnesses Are (Not) Created Equal: Reforming Federal Mental Health Parity Law, 49 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. (forthcoming 2012).

Capacity to Consent and Surrogate Decision Making, AM. J. GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY (forthcoming 2011).

Reforming State Mental Health Parity Law, 12 HOUS. J. HEALTH L. & POL’Y (forthcoming 2011).

Medico-Legal Issues in Neuroimaging, in NEUROETHICS IN PRACTICE (Martha Farah & Anjan Chatterjee eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming 2011).

Women’s Neuroethics, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF NEUROETHICS (Judy Illes & Barbara Sahakian eds., Oxford University Press 2011).

Medical Privacy, in GOVERNING AMERICA: MAJOR DECISIONS OF FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM 1789 TO THE PRESENT (Paul Quirk & William Cunion eds. 2011).

COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND THE LAW (with Lucinda Jesson) (Carolina Academic Press 2010).

Scienti�c Understandings of Postpartum Illness: Improving Health Law and Policy? 33 HARV. J. L. & GENDER 99 (2010).

Marketa Trimble

GLOBAL PATENTS: LIMITS OF TRANSNATIONAL ENFORCEMENT (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012).

Extraterritorial Enforcement, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SYSTEMS IN COMMON LAW AND CIVIL LAW (Toshiko Takenaka ed., forthcoming 2012).

When Foreigners Infringe Patents: An Empirical Look at the Involvement of Foreign Defendants in Patent Litigation in the U.S., 27 SANTA CLARA COMP. & HIGH TECH. L.J. (forthcoming 2011).

Extraterritorial Intellectual Property Enforcement in the European Union, SOUTHWESTERN J. OF INTL. L. (forthcoming 2011).

Setting Foot on Enemy Ground: Cease and Desist Letters, DMCA Noti�cations, and Personal Jurisdiction in Declaratory Judgment Actions, 50 IDEA 777 (2010).

The Public Policy Exception to Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Cases of Copyright Infringement, 40 IIC 642 (2009).

Cross-Border Injunctions in U.S. Patent Cases and Their Enforcement Abroad, 13 MARQ. INTELL. PROP. L. REV. 331 (2009).

The Impact of “Patent Trolls” on Patent Law and the Legal Landscape of the United States, 148 PRÁVNÍK 829 (2009).

Elizabeth MacDowell

When Courts Collide: Integrated Domestic Violence Courts and Court Pluralism, 20 TEX. J. WOMEN & L. (forthcoming 2011).

When Reading Between the Lines is Not Enough: Lessons From Media Coverage of a Domestic Violence Homicide-Suicide, 17 AM. U. J. GENDER SOC. POL’Y & L. 269 (2009).

Fatma Marouf

The Rising Bar for Persecution in Asylum Cases Involving Sexual and Reproductive Harm, COLUMBIA J. GENDER & LAW 2011).

Implicit Bias and Immigration Courts, 45 NEW ENG. LAW REV. 417 (2011).

Holding the World Bank Accountable for the Leakage of Funds from Africa’s Health Sector, 12 HEALTH & HUM. RTS. 95 (2010).

Socioeconomic Rights and Refugee Status: Deepening the Dialogue Between Human Rights and Refugee Law (with Deborah Anker) (reviewing MICHELLE FOSTER, INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS), 103 AM. J. INT’L L. 784 (2009).

Lori D. Johnson

“Tips for Grading and Handling Student Conferences,” posted to Legal Writing Prof Blog at http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2010/12/lori-johnson.html (December 4, 2010).

“Legislative Drafting Exercises in the First Year Writing Course – Opportunity & Example,” Presentation at the 2011 Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference.

Ian Chamberlin Bartrum Associate Professor of Law

Constitutional Law and Theory Constitutional History

Law and Religion

Ian Bartrum joins UNLV from Drake Law School, where he taught Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, and Law and Religion. He has also taught at Vermont Law School, and at Yale Law School as the Irving Ribicoff Fellow. His research interests are in constitutional history and theory, the Establishment Clause, and constitutional education. The American Association of Law Schools recognized his article “The Constitutional Canon As Argumentative Metonymy” as the Steven Gey paper in Constitutional Law for 2010. He frequently comments on church and state issues nationally. He is a graduate of Hamilton College, Vermont Law School, and Yale Law School.

Linda L. Berger Professor of Law

Legal Writing Law and Rhetoric First Amendment

Linda Berger is one of the nation’s leading figures in legal writing; she has taught at the University of San Diego School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Mercer University School of Law. She was a founder and long-time editor of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and one of the inaugural Visiting Scholars in Legal Communication & Rhetoric. She currently is an editor of the LSN-SSRN eJournal, Law & Rhetoric Abstracts. Her recent scholarly work has emphasized the ways in which rhetorical analysis guides the interpretation and composition of legal arguments.

Ruben J. Garcia Professor of Law

Labor Law Employment Law

Employment Discrimination

Ruben Garcia graduated from the UCLA School of Law and received his LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was a William H. Hastie Fellow. He also taught at Wisconsin, the University of California, Davis School of Law, and the University of California, San Diego. He joins UNLV from California Western School of Law, where he taught and wrote about workplace law for eight years and directed the school’s concentration on labor and employment law. Garcia is a member of the Labor Law Group and is working on a book that will address low wage workers. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).

Michael Kagan Associate Professor of Law

Immigration Law International Refugee Law

International Human Rights Law Evidence

Michael Kagan is an expert in immigration and asylum law who spent ten years building legal aid programs for refugees throughout the Middle East and Asia. He held previous teaching positions at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the American University in Cairo. Kagan’s research on refugee credibility assessment has been cited by multiple Courts of Appeal, and he has also written extensively about international refugee law and humanitarian policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He will co-direct the Immigration Law Clinic at UNLV.

Addie C. Rolnick Associate Professor of Law

Indian Law Critical Race Theory

Criminal Law and Procedure Juvenile Law

Addie Rolnick joined UNLV from UCLA School of Law, where she was the inaugural Critical Race Studies Fellow. Her scholarship focuses on bridging gaps between civil rights, Critical Race Theory, federal Indian law, and indigenous rights. Prior to joining the academy, she represented tribal governments as an attorney with a top Native rights firm in Washington, D.C., where she was a leading advocate on law enforcement and juvenile justice issues. She has also assisted tribes with institution building in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, constitution drafting, and justice system development. She received her J.D. and M.A. in American Indian Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Oberlin College.Nonpublic Reasons and Political Paradigm Change,

84 ST. JOHN’S L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2011).

Constitutional Rights and Judicial Independence: Lessons from Iowa, 88 WASH. U. L. REV. 1047 (2011).

Thoughts On the Divergence of Promise and Contract, 34 CAN. J. L. & JURIS. (2011).

Constructing the Constitutional Canon: The Metonymic Evolution of Federalist 10, 26 CONST. COMMENT 9. (2011).

Salazar v. Buono: Sacred Symbolism and the Secular State, 104 NW. U. L. REV. 1653 (2011).

The Constitutional Canon As Argumentative Metonymy, 18 WM. & MARY BILL OF RTS. J. 157 (2009).

Of Historiography and Constitutional Principle: Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 51 J. OF CHURCH & STATE 102 (2008).

Metaphors and Modalities: Meditations on Bobbitt’s Theory of the Constitution, 17 WM. & MARY BILL OF RTS. J. 157 (2008).

The Lady, or the Tiger? A Field Guide to Metaphor & Narrative, 50 WASHBURN L. REV. 275 (2011).

Studying and Teaching “Law as Rhetoric”: A Place to Stand, 16 J. LEGAL WRITING 3 (2010).

The Past, Presence, and Future of Legal Writing Scholarship: Rhetoric, Voice, and Community, (with Linda H. Edwards and Terrill Pollman), 16 J. LEGAL WRITING 521 (2010).

How Embedded Knowledge Structures Affect Judicial Decision Making: An Analysis of Metaphor, Narrative, and Imagination in Child Custody Disputes, 18 S. CAL. INTERDISC. L.J. (2009).

Of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Corporate Money: Rhetorical Choices in Supreme Court Decisions on Campaign Finance Regulation, 58 MERCER L. REV. 949 (2007).

Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection, NEW YORK UNIV. PRESS (forthcoming 2011).

Toward Fundamental Change for the Protection of Low-Wage Workers: The “Labor Rights are Human Rights Debate” in the Obama Era, 2009 UNIV. OF CHICAGO L. FORUM 421 (2009).

Teaching Problem Solving and Preventive Law Through International Labor and Employment Law, 25 INT’L. J. OF COMP. LAB. L. & INDUS. REL. 15 (2008).

Against Legislation: Garcetti v. Ceballos and the Paradox of Statutory Protection for Whistleblowers, 7 FIRST AMEND. L. REV. 22 (2008).

A Democratic Theory of Amicus Advocacy, 35 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 315 (2008).

“We Live in a Country of UNHCR:” The UN Surrogate State and Refugee Policy in the Middle East, New Issues in Refugee Research Paper No. 201, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Policy Development and Evaluation Section (February 2011).

Refugee Credibility Assessment and the “Religious Imposter” Problem, 43 VAND. J. OF TRANSNATIONAL L. 1179 (2010).

Is There Really a Protection Gap? UNRWA’s Role Vis-á-vis Palestinian Refugees, 28 REFUGEE SURV. Q. 511 (2010).

The (relative) Decline of Palestinian Exceptionalism and its Consequences for Refugee Studies in the Middle East, 22 J. OF REFUGEE STUD. 417 (2009).

Rights, Needs and Responsibility: Challenges to Rights-Based Advocacy for Non-Palestinian Refugees’ Health and Education in Lebanon (with Samira Trad), in FORCED DISPLACEMENT: WHY RIGHTS MATTER (Lyla Mehta and Kasia Grabska Eds.) (Palgrave Press, 2008).

The Promise of Mancari: Indian Political Rights as Racial Remedy, 86 N.Y.U. L. REV. (forthcoming 2011).

A Tangled Web of Justice: American Indian and Alaska Native Youth in Federal, State, and Tribal Justice Systems, (with Neelum Arya), Campaign for Youth Justice (July 2008).

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NPR’s Linda Wertheimer to Speak at UNLV November 6, 2011 A Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution Peace in the Desert™ lecture given by Wertheimer on “Cooling the Partisan Fires”law.unlv.edu/Saltman_Events.html

Legal Persuasion: An Advanced Workshop December 15-16, 2011A two-day intensive program on sophisticated approaches to oral, written and visual persuasionlaw.unlv.edu/LegalPersuasionWorkshop

Democracy and the Workplace February 24-25, 2012A two-day Saltman Center symposium on contemporary issues in labor and employment lawlaw.unlv.edu/LaborLawSymposium

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