Professor MacDowell Earns 2013 Faculty Opportunity Award

Elizabeth MacDowell, Co-Director of the Family Justice Clinic and Associate Professor of Law, has earned a 2013 Faculty Opportunity Award, it was announced on Monday.

UNLV’s Faculty Opportunity Awards were created in 2012 to provide support for development of research areas with potential for continued funding by extramural funding agencies, private foundations, or industry, or to provide financial support needed to complete significant scholarly/creative works. This year, the Faculty Opportunity Awards total approximately $400,000. A new award specifically intended to produce research disclosures was added this year.

Professor MacDowell and Emily Troshynski from the Department of Criminal Justice were awarded $25,000 for their project "From Victims to Litigants: Domestic Violence, Legal Aid Partnerships with the Courts, and the Politics of Self-Help."

A total of 46 proposals were submitted to this highly competitive awards program in two categories: Innovation Technology Award and Single Investigator Award. Faculty-led review panels made recommendations to the Vice President for Research and the Chair of the Research Council. A total of 18 awards will be funded.

April Issue of Boyd Briefs Released

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce the release of Volume II, Issue 4, of Boyd Briefs.

Issued on a monthly basis, Boyd Briefs provides information about the scholarly and other activities of Boyd faculty members during the previous month. Illustrative entries announce new faculty publications, the drafting of briefs and uniform legislation, submission to administrative agencies of comments on proposed regulations, Clinic victories, the organization and hosting of academic conferences, appointments and elections of Boyd faculty members to local, national, and international boards, offices, and societies, and other honors and awards.

The April 2013 issue of Boyd Briefs announces several new law review articles, book reviews, and other publications, dozens of talks and media references, and a number of other accomplishments and activities. Congratulations, Boyd faculty members!

The Boyd Briefs archives may be accessed here.

Professor Trimble Reviews Cotter's Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce that Professor Marketa Trimble recently reviewed Thomas F. Cotter's book Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press 2013). 

Published on the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog on April 30, 2013, Professor Trimble's review states that Comparative Patent Remedies "is an extremely timely and most welcome contribution to the comparative literature on intellectual property law and the law of remedies. . . .  In looking beyond U.S. borders, Cotter relies on his deep expertise in U.S. patent remedies from his previous publications. His knowledge enables him to detail a theoretical framework for remedies from a law and economics perspective (pp. 39-75), and it is within this framework that he presents his description and analysis of the law and practice of remedies in the United States (which covers slightly more than a fifth of the book – pp. 76-162), and several foreign countries, including the major patent litigation countries – the United Kingdom, Germany, and China. The coverage of countries is impressive because publications spanning this number of countries rarely appear in single-author monographs – they usually result from an international collaboration of several authors."  To read more of Professor Trimble's review, click here. 

Professors LaFrance and Trimble Author Chapters in Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law

 

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce that book chapters authored by Professor Mary LaFrance (left) and Professor Marketa Trimble (right) were recently published in Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law (Toshiko Takenaka ed., 2013). 

Professor LaFrance's book chapter, "Passing Off and Unfair Competition Regimes Compared," analyzes the differences between trademark regimes in common law and civil law systems, concluding that common law countries emphasize consumer protection while civil countries focus more on protecting the merchants' investments in their trademarks.  This results in disparate approaches to disputes involving comparative advertising, copycat products, merchandising rights, and keyword advertising.

Professor Trimble's book chapter, "Extraterritorial Enforcement," analyzes three forms of extraterritorial enforcement of intellectual property rights, including the extraterritorial application of intellectual property laws to acts committed outside protecting countries, the extraterritorial litigation of rights under the laws of foreign countries, and cross-border enforcement of judgments rendered in intellectual property cases.

Congratulations, Mary and Marketa! 

Dean Rapoport Essay Highlighted in The Wall Street Journal Law Blog

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce that Interim Dean and Gordon Silver Professor of Law Nancy Rapoport recently placed an essay ("Managing U.S. News & World Report - The Enron Way") in volume 48, issue 2, of the Gonzaga Law Review.  The Boyd School of Law is also proud to announce that Dean Rapoport's essay was featured in an April 26, 2013, The Wall Street Journal Law Blog post ("Law Schools and the 'Enron Way'") authored by Jacob Gershman.

According to Gershman, "In pursuit of higher rankings, law schools risk falling into an Enron-like trap, according to a new law review essay.  Nancy B. Rapoport, the interim dean of University of Nevada’s William S. Boyd School of Law in Las Vegas, sees parallels between incentives that encourage law schools to embellish data and incentives that helped drive Enron into the ground."  To read more of Gershman's blog post, click here.

Congratulations, Nancy! 

Professor Trimble Guest Blogs on Patently-O

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce that Professor Marketa Trimble recently authored a guest blog post on Patently-O, the nation's leading patent law blog.

Titled "Patent-Conscious Preparation for a Summer at the Beach," Professor Trimble's guest blog post explains that as the America Invents Act slowly fades as a cocktail party topic, the topic of summer footwear presents opportunities for new patent-spirited discussions.  To read more about U.S. patent 8,371,043 and how it provides excellent material for discussion relating to U.S. intellectual property protection for fashion and the value of U.S. patents, click here.

Professor Trimble joined Boyd's full-time faculty in 2010, bringing expertise in Conflict of Laws, Patent Law, Cyberlaw, International Intellectual Property Law, Private International Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, European Union Law, and Comparative Law. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.S.D., 2010; J.S.M., 2006) and the Law School of Charles University in Prague (Ph.D., 2002; JUDr., 2001; and Mgr., 1997).