Professor Ann McGinley Interviewed by Time About Women and Workplace Vulnerability

Ann C. McGinley is a William S. Boyd Professor of Law at UNLV.

Professor McGinley was recently featured in an Aug. 27 Time article titled “Amazon Isn’t the Problem. We Are.” about women working in a workplace where personal traumas and health crises can render them “disproportionately vulnerable to being targeted as drags on the bottom line.” 

In the article, which discussed a recent report about Amazon’s workplace, Professor McGinley said, “It’s a new work world.”

She continued, “The lean-and-mean ethos is particularly hard on women. It’s a cowboy ethic: You can’t play in our clubhouse unless you play by our rules. But those rules don’t work with having a family.”

The article also read: “Furthermore, as McGinley points out, companies that employ harsh tactics that disproportionately affect women might risk serious lawsuits—as well as long-term growth. ‘If you seek to discard half your population, you’re losing a lot of expertise. You’re not going to have the innovation you need.’”

Professor McGinley is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of employment law, employment discrimination and disability law and a leader in Multidimensional Masculinities Theory, an emerging discipline that applies masculinities theory from social sciences to legal interpretation.

Aug. 27 Boyd Briefs Now Available

The Aug. 27 issue of Boyd Briefs is now available.

This week's edition features Professor Jean Sternlight, student Anthony Ruggiero, and alumna Amber Robinson '06.

Jean Sternlight is Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law. This year alone, she received both the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Civil and Trial Mediators.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, Anthony earned a B.S. in Criminal Justice from St. John's University and embarked on a career in the field. After moving to Las Vegas, he earned a master’s in Public Administration from UNLV and established a formidable record of service in the areas of public affairs and public communications.

Amber continues to be active at Boyd as a board member on the Alumni Chapter Board since 2012. She has served as Board secretary and is currently the treasurer. In 2011, Amber opened her own firm, Robinson Law Group, exclusively practicing in family law.

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Professor Marketa Trimble Elected to International Academy of Comparative Law

Marketa Trimble is a Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law.

Professor Trimble was recently elected as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, an organization that brings together scholars to focus on the comparative study of legal systems. More than 700 members make up the academy, which brings together comparative law experts through conferences, workshops, publications and more.

In her research, Professor Trimble focuses on intellectual property and issues at the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws.

Professors Fatma Marouf, Michael Kagan Write Column for The Washington Post

"If you get a speeding ticket from a traffic cop, you don’t have to pay the fine until the case is resolved in court. But things are different if the Department of Homeland Security seeks to have you deported."

So write Boyd Professors Fatma Marouf and Michael Kagan, along with Professor Rebecca Gill (UNLV Political Science) in a column in The Washington Post. For three years, they have conducted groundbreaking empirical research on how federal courts adjudicate immigration appeals.

In their Post column, they highlight a basic problem: Immigrants can be deported even while their appeals are still pending in court. This recently happened to a Guatemalan mother and child who were detained in Pennsylvania, and then deported by the Department of Homeland Security to Guatemala City two weeks after they filed an appeal.

Professors Kagan, Gill and Marouf highlight problems in the way the courts issue stays of removal to prevent this from happening. As they write:

"To decide whether to grant a stay of removal, a court must decide whether the immigrant is likely to eventually win her appeal. But in our research, we found that in about half of the appeals that were ultimately successful, the court initially guessed wrong and denied the stay, leaving an immigrant at risk of an errant deportation."

Professors Gill, Kagan and Marouf have been continuing their research, and are now focusing on the impact of gender on immigration cases in federal courts. Their initial findings were recently highlighted in The Wall Street Journal.

Professors Kagan and Marouf co-direct the Immigration Clinic at Boyd.