Professor Frank Rudy Cooper is a William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Race, Gender and Policing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Duke University Law School, where he was on the Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy. He clerked for federal district court judge Solomon Oliver, Jr. and has previously taught law at Boston College, Suffolk University, and Villanova University.

Professor Cooper has published more than a dozen articles on race, gender or policing. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, and a course on Identities, Culture and Law. He has been on the Boards of several law professor organizations, including Latina/o Critical Legal Theory, Inc." Visit Prof. Cooper's faculty page for more about his scholarship and teaching.

Addie C. Rolnick is a Professor of Law at UNLV. She teaches Federal Indian Law, Criminal Law, Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and a practicum in Tribal Law. Her scholarship investigates the relationships between sovereign power and minority rights, including: the role of race and gender in the administration of criminal and juvenile justice; equal protection-based attacks on indigenous rights; the relationship between private and state violence; and the role of tribal justice systems. She is a nationally recognized expert on Native youth and juvenile justice. Prior to joining UNLV, she was the inaugural Critical Race Studies Fellow at UCLA School of Law and represented tribes as an attorney and lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Visit Prof. Rolnick's faculty page for more about her scholarship and teaching.

Stewart Chang is Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. Prior to joining Boyd in 2018, he was Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Whittier Law School, and before becoming a professor, he practiced public interest law for over a decade with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California where he specialized in domestic violence, immigration, and family law. Professor Chang teaches Contracts, Immigration Law, Family Law, Asian Americans and the Law, and Comparative Law and Sexuality. He writes in areas of comparative law, family law, and immigration law with a focus on how those areas intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Visit Prof. Chang's faculty page for more about his scholarship and teaching.

Eve Hanan is a Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Williams S. Boyd School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law and co-directs the Misdemeanor Clinic. A long-time public defender and, later, restorative justice facilitator, Professor Hanan's research investigates the assumptions, mythologies, and power dynamics that undergird criminal legal practices. She has published articles on implicit racial bias in sentencing, restorative justice as an alternative to prosecution, the erroneous idea of the habitual offender, and the relevance of the prison experience to sentencing policy. Visit Prof. Hanan's faculty page for more information about her teaching and scholarship.

Dmitri N. Shalin, former chair of sociology department, is professor of sociology and director of the UNLV Center for Democratic Culture. Dr. Shalin is coordinator of Justice & Democracy Forum series, editor of the Social Health of Nevada Report, co-director of the International Biography Initiative and Erving Goffman Archives, and organizer of international forums on Russian politics and culture. His research interests and publications are in the areas of pragmatism, democratic culture, public policy, emotional intelligence, and Russian society. Visit Prof. Shalin's faculty page for more information about his teaching and scholarship. 

Justin Iverson is a Research Librarian & Assistant Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As a former correctional law librarian, Professor Iverson is interested in incarceration law, policing, and their impacts on communities of vulnerable people. He currently teaches LEAP (Legal Education and Assistance in Prisons), which focuses on training law students to provide access to legal information and resources for incarcerated populations throughout the state. Visit Prof. Iverson’s faculty page for more about his scholarship and teaching.

Professor Patience A. Crowder joined the faculty at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in Spring 2024 as a Professor of Law. She is teaching a new law clinic that will focus on transactional legal assistance and community economic development. Prior to Boyd Law, Professor Crowder was an Associate Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the Wellspring Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Tulsa College of Law.

Professor Crowder’s scholarship examines the intersection and impact of contract, corporate, and local laws in advocacy for the public interest, particularly in revitalizing underserved communities. Visit Prof. Crowder's faculty page for more about her scholarship and teaching.