Boyd Welcomes New Faculty

Stacey Tovino
Professor of Law

Stacey Tovino joins UNLV Law from Drake University Law School. Professor Tovino is a leading expert in health law, bioethics, and the medical humanities. Her recent law review publications include articles in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Florida State University Law Review, and Santa Clara Law Review. She will teach Health Care Liability & Quality Regulation.

Marketa Trimble
Associate Professor of Law

Marketa Trimble joins UNLV Law from Stanford Law School, where she received her second doctoral degree. In her research she focuses on intellectual property and issues at the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws. Using her extensive research experience from law schools in the U.S. and Europe, her expertise from the European Union and European governments, and her foreign language abilities, Professor Trimble conducts comparative and empirical work in her areas of interest. She will teach Conflict of Laws and International Intellectual Property Law.

Elizabeth MacDowell
Associate Professor of Law

Elizabeth MacDowell joins UNLV Law from Chapman University School of Law, where she taught courses in family law and domestic violence law and policy and developed a clinical course in the Chapman Family Violence Clinic. Professor MacDowell has published articles on the relationship between legal education, doctrine, and practice in marginalized communities, and on media representations of domestic violence. Her current research focuses on the linkages between anti-subordination movements and how legal institutions and cultures impact access to justice. Professor MacDowell will teach Civil Procedure and co-direct and teach in the Family Justice Clinic.

Fatma Marouf joins UNLV Law after running her own law practice. During law school, she was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. After graduation, Professor Marouf worked for two years as a Staff Attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance. She then clerked for the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. From 2005-10, Professor Marouf practiced exclusively immigration law, handling all types of cases including asylum, deportation defense, family and business immigration. Her research focuses on economic and social rights, as well as the intersection between human rights and refugee law. Professor Marouf will teach international human rights and immigration law. She also will direct the Immigration Clinic.

Lori D. Johnson
Lawyering Process Professor

Lori D. Johnson comes to UNLV Law from the Las Vegas office of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. A transactional attorney for five years, Professor Johnson specialized in real estate and finance transactions. A graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, she will teach Lawyering Process and intends to develop a transactional and real estate focused drafting seminar.

Lisa Blomgren Bingham
Visiting Professor of Law, 2010-11

Lisa Blomgren Bingham will visit UNLV Law from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington where she is currently a professor of public and environmental affairs. She is also the Director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute and currently holds the Keller-Runden Chair in Public Service. She was a fellow for the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) in 2007. She has also won the Willoughby Abner Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution in 2002 for excellence in research on dispute resolution in public sector employment. She will teach Labor Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Survey.