During the ACLU Nevada 2024 Celebration of Civil Rights in September, Professor Michael Kagan and the UNLV Immigration Clinic were honored with the Advocacy for People Impacted by Discrimination Award.

In the spring 2024, student attorneys Emily Espinosa and Yashmeeta Sharma successfully won protection for their client at Las Vegas Immigration Court.

The UNLV Immigration Clinic receives approximately 100 calls asking for help every month.

From January 2022 to March 2024, the Immigration Clinic helped more than 1200 clients, including nearly 500 with full representation, plus more than 700 free

Written By Paul Szydelko

Some fates are worse than death. For some dying patients, it’s the loss of autonomy. For others, it’s the loss of dignity. Terminally ill adults are legally able to choose to bring about their own death in a growing number of states.

That changing legal landscape around medical aid in dying (MAID) was the subject of the UNLV Health Law Program’s online conference in February. MAID is the procedure that legally allows a physician to prescribe a lethal dose of medicine for a mentally competent patient with a prognosis of less than six months to voluntarily self-administer

The Black Legal Futurism Conference, hosted by the William S. Boyd School of Law’s Program on Race, Gender and Policing, welcomed scholars from across the nation and southern Nevada community members on April 5-6, 2024.

Panel discussions kicked off day one of the conference with panelists exploring the topics of What is Black Legal Futurism and Arts & Culture, followed by a keynote presentation from I. Bennett Capers from Fordham School of Law, and concluded with a book talk by American author and educator Tananarive Due, in partnership with the Black Mountain Institute, at the Beverly Theater

Written By Shan Bates

Professor Patience Crowder launched the Economic Justice and Small Business Clinic (EJSBC) in Fall 2024 at the William S. Boyd School of Law. The objective of the clinic is to provide free transactional (non-litigation) services to low-wealth and under-resourced entrepreneurs, small businesses, artists, nonprofit corporations, and other types of community-based organizations in the Las Vegas Valley. In addition, the EJSBC works with community partners to explore the connections between transactional practice and economic justice strategies that mitigate systemic economic

Written By Mike Weatherford

The first-ever Survivor Representation & Advocacy Clinic was “designed around a population rather than a type of law,” says Professor Courtney Cross, who launched the clinic for the spring 2024 semester.

Through a partnership with the SafeNest domestic and sexual violence crisis center in downtown Las Vegas, 10 2L and 3L students met weekly with clients looking to file for protection orders. They saw cases all the way through, though the end results varied..

“We’re applying much more of a harm-reduction lens to the work that we’re doing, rather than simply a victims

Launched at Boyd in October 2002, Kids’ Court School was created to educate children ages 4-17 about what to expect from the moment they walk into the courtroom until they’re dismissed.

For two decades, UNLV’s Immigration Clinic has safeguarded its local community from the fear of deportation.

UNLV Boyd Law students are helping to raise the standards of rural indigent defense through their work with the new Department of Indigent Defense Services

New legislation creates public funding that will help Immigration Clinic expand and continue serving a community in need

It took a while for Patrick Chapin to discover his passion for law. Now the longtime litigator, dispute resolution practitioner, and adjunct professor is paying it forward to students—in more ways than one