Professor Thomas Main Featured in Las Vegas Sun

Thomas Main is Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research and a William S. Boyd Professor of Law at UNLV.

On June 28, he was featured in the Las Vegas Sun article Dissecting Nevada's statute of limitations.

In regard to Nevada's two-year statute of limitations, Professor Main said, "Those statute of limitations periods — one way of thinking about them is that they give a person who would file a lawsuit a chance to see whether or not they need to file a lawsuit. If a statute were only 30 days or 60 days, everybody would have to hurry and find a lawyer and file a lawsuit before they really found out whether or not they needed to. That is one often-overlooked thing — the virtue that, in a sense, it can discourage lawsuits because you can wait and see if you need to file one. Over the course of years, a person can look back and realize an injury was just a bad weekend and one missed day of work."

Professor Main is a leading figure in the field of civil procedure. Most of his scholarship explores the history of procedure, with current projects focused on judicial efficiency initiatives in the 1950s-1970s.

Boyd Alumni Elected to State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors

The State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors in June held its 2014-2015 Board of Governors elections.

Boyd alumna Paola Armeni '03 and alumnus Ryan Works '04 were elected to the Board of Governors for District One (Clark County). They will serve two-year terms beginning in July.

According to the State Bar of Nevada website, Armeni, a Shareholder at Gordon Silver, "... is a Board of Governors member that was re-elected for another two-year term. She is the former chair of the bar's Young Lawyers Section and is also past president of Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice and current member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Clark County and American Bar Associations."

According to the same website, "Mr. Works is a partner at the firm of McDonald Carano Wilson and he practices primarily in corporate bankruptcy, insolvency and business litigation. Since becoming a member of the bar, he has been active in bar groups, such as the Young Lawyers Section."

Professor Thomas McAffee Shares Thoughts on Blog

Thomas McAffee is a William S. Boyd Professor of Law at UNLV.

Professor McAffee has a blog titled McAffee's Machinations, Taking the Constitution Seriously. On the blog, he shares his thoughts on politics, the United States Constitution, Supreme Court rulings, books, and more. To read Professor McAffee's blog, visit thomasmcaffee.com.

Professor McAffee advises the Nevada Law Journal and teaches American Legal History, First Amendment Rights, and Constitutional Law.

Professor Leslie Griffin Featured on KNPR

Dr. Leslie C. Griffin is a William S. Boyd Professor of Law at UNLV.

On June 26, she was featured on the KNPR segment Court Strikes Utah Same-Sex Ban.

"The 10th Circuit said that Utah's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and it's the first court of appeals to do so. That's part of what makes it so important and why people are paying so much attention to it. The court gave a very strong opinion saying that there is a fundamental right to marry, and that fundamental right to marry protects both the people who want to get married in Utah as well as the couple in the case who had gotten married in Iowa and want to live in Utah," she said during the segment. "We know that the 9th Circuit will eventually make a ruling on same-sex marriage, and I think people would have thought that the 9th Circuit was the most likely to come out first for same-sex marriage. So it's a big signal that the first appeals court to reach this has said that there's a fundamental right to marry that includes the right to same-sex marriage."

Professor Griffin, who teaches constitutional law, is known for her interdisciplinary work in law and religion.

Professor Rachel Anderson to Present at National Bar Association's 89th Annual Conference

Rachel Anderson is a Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law.

Professor Anderson will attend the National Bar Association’s 89th Annual Convention in Atlanta from July 25 to July 31 in her capacity as President of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association, a Vice President of the Law Professor’s Division, and a presenter on a Continuing Legal Education panel.

During the annual conference, she will be presenting two talks, titled “Re-enfranchisement: Race, Criminal ‘Justice,' and Fulfilling the Promise of One Person, One Vote” and “Pushing Back on the Prison to Voteless Pipeline: An Action Plan for Individuals and Groups.”

Professor Anderson's research and teaching interests focus on business law, civil and human rights, empirical legal studies, and international law.

Boyd Alumna Joanna Myers '10 Joins Gordon Silver, Featured in Press Release

On June 24, Boyd alumna Joanna Myers '10 was featured in a press release distributed by Gordon Silver.

Myers has joined Gordon Silver as a member of the firm's Intellectual Property and Entertainment & Sports practice groups.

The release reads, "'We are happy to have Joanna join our team,' said Gordon Silver managing partner Gregory E. Garman. 'She has a tremendous work ethic, and is a great fit for our expanding Intellectual Property and Entertainment & Sports practice groups.'"