Professor Marketa Trimble Publishes Article on Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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

On Jan. 30, she published an article titled, "One Is Not Enough, How Many Is Too Many? How Many Countries’ Copyright Laws Should and Actually Do Apply to Copyright Infringements on the Internet?" on the Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

In the post, she writes, "The sparse number of online infringement cases with claims under multiple countries’ laws might not be surprising to practitioners familiar with the practical obstacles of cross-border litigation. In my forthcoming article, I identify some of the hurdles that prevent copyright owners from claiming simultaneous infringements under the copyright laws of multiple countries. The elimination of these litigation hurdles in cross-border copyright enforcement is one of the goals of several academic projects that seek to create choice-of-law provisions to simplify copyright enforcement and allow copyright owners to enforce their rights in multiple countries simultaneously, and in a single venue."

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

Feb. 5 Boyd Briefs Now Available

The Feb. 5 issue of Boyd Briefs is now available.

This week's edition features Professor Lydia Nussbaum, student Kerry Kleiman, and alumna Assly Sayyar '04.

Professor Nussbaum is the associate director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and is the director of the Strasser Mediation Clinic. Part of her work explores how the popular and familiar institution of mediation may be experiencing an important transformation. Her forthcoming article, tentatively titled "Mediation Creep: Expanding State Regulation of Private Disputes," is an important conversation starter.

Kleiman is the editor-in-chief of the UNLV Gaming Law Journal and won both IAGA's 2015 Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award and the 2014 Anthony Cabot Award for Best Student Note for her article on conflicting international anti-money laundering protocols for casinos. As a member of the Society of Advocates, she was named second best oralist at Fordham University School of Law's 2014 Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition.

After more than seven years of civil litigation and transactional practice in small- and medium-size firms in the Southern Nevada area, Sayyar opened her own solo practice in the northern county of San Diego in May 2012, with a satellite office in Las Vegas. She continues to offer her skills as a trial attorney, civil practitioner, and business and corporate transactional attorney in both states.

To subscribe to Boyd Briefs, visit law.unlv.edu/BoydBriefs.

Professor Jean Sternlight Quoted on Natural Products Insider Website

Jean Sternlight is the Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law and the director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.

In a Feb. 4 article posted on the Natural Products Insider website titled “Supplement Manufacturers Need Game Plan to Defend Against Class-Action Lawsuits,” one of Professor Sternlight’s articles from 2012 was quoted. Natural Products Insider is a print, online and e-mail resource for marketers, manufacturers and formulators of dietary supplements, healthy foods and cosmeceuticals.

The article on the website said, “The AT&T case has been helpful to companies seeking to uphold arbitration agreements and bar a class-action lawsuit. ‘In case after case, courts are now refusing to void arbitral class action waivers in consumer and employment cases,’ wrote Jean Sternlight, a professor of law at UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Boyd School of Law, in a 2012 article for Oregon Law Review called ‘Tsunami: AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion Impedes Access to Justice.’

“Sternlight said the courts in consumer fraud actions and other cases have found the complaints must be handled through individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit.”

Professor Sternlight is nationally and internationally recognized for her scholarship and law reform activities in the field of dispute resolution. 

Professor Fatma Marouf Interviewed by 8 News Now

Fatma Marouf is the co-director of the Immigration Clinic and an associate professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law.

Professor Marouf recently spoke with 8 News Now for a Feb. 3 segment titled “U.S. Senate to vote on bill affecting immigration programs” (1:07 mark).

In the interview, Professor Marouf talks about how the U.S. Senate’s vote on the Department of Homeland Security’s budget may not directly impact the future of the immigration programs announced by President Obama. The budget is under controversy because it excludes funding for the President’s immigration programs.

“The only people that would not actually be affected by this are the employees of USCIS, which is the agency that actually processes the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability applications, which is entirely funded with the fees it collects on those applications,” Professor Marouf said. “In fact, the House appropriations committee has said that, you know, Congress can't even stop it from processing these applications, because there are actually provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act that says the USCIS is funded through its fees.”

Drawing on her extensive experience representing individuals before the Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals, and U.S. Courts of Appeals, Professor Marouf's research probes various problems involved in adjudicating immigration cases at all levels.

Boyd Alumna Chandeni Sendall ’12 Joins McDonald Carano Wilson

Boyd alumna Chandeni Sendall ’12 was highlighted in a Jan. 29 Nevada Business magazine article titled “McDonald Carano Wilson Announces New Associate.” Nevada Business covers business issues, news and events in Nevada.

“We are very excited to have Chandeni join McDonald Carano Wilson,” said John Frankovich, the law firm’s managing partner. “She is an excellent lawyer with tremendous legal experience at both ends of Nevada. She is a great addition to our law firm.”

With offices in Las Vegas and Reno, McDonald Carano Wilson is a full-service law firm with 13 specialized practice groups offering a variety of commercial, transactional, litigation, regulatory and tax services to clients.

Boyd Student, Alumnus Win 2014 Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award

On Jan. 30, the International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA) announced that Boyd School of Law student Kerry Kleiman and alumnus Michael Roeseler '14 received the 2014 Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award.

The annual scholarship program recognizes the best scholarly research papers written by law students. Submissions are solicited from law students around the world and judged by a committee of IAGA members who practice gaming law. To be considered, submissions must enhance the understanding of gaming law or suggest a beneficial change to gaming law.

Kleiman won for her paper titled, “Keeping Casinos Clean: The Problem with Dirty Money and International Differences in Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Casinos.” Roeseler won for his paper titled, “Taxing Gambling.”

Papers are evaluated on the quality of presentation, quality of footnoting, depth of research, novelty or importance of the subject matter, value to gaming law practitioners or gaming control officials, and value to the study of gaming law.

Past Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award winners from Boyd include Justin Allsop '14; Rick Benito '12; Michael Lafia '12; Miriam Meyer-Thompson '14; John Piro '10; Charles C. Rainey '07; Jaime E. Serrano, Jr. '12; and Evan Simonsen '14.

The Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award was established to honor the memory of Shannon Bybee, one of IAGA’s founders who had a distinguished gaming career as a gaming attorney, Nevada regulator, industry executive, and pioneer in the field of education in casino operations and gaming law.