A Hands-Off Approach

As the casino industry considers expanding cashless gaming options amid the pandemic, Boyd’s Gaming Law students offer a regulatory helping hand

As the casino industry considers expanding cashless gaming options amid the pandemic, Boyd’s Gaming Law students offer a regulatory helping hand

How Can We Help?

At a time of great need, community-focused Partners in Pro Bono program attracts record number of Boyd Law students

At a time of great need, community-focused Partners in Pro Bono program attracts record number of Boyd Law students

Let’s Get to Work

New Workplace Law Club quickly finds a home (and a lot of support) on Boyd Law School campus

New Workplace Law Club quickly finds a home (and a lot of support) on Boyd Law School campus

Let the Conversation Begin

Race, Gender & Policing program encourages thoughtful discussion, substantive action on a national conundrum

Here’s a shocking number: 685,724. 

That was the number of times that the New York City Police Department performed a stop-and-frisk in 2011, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. Even more startling: Almost 85 percent of the individuals whom officers stopped and interrogated were black or Latinx — with the vast majority deemed to be innocent. 

It’s those types of statistics, and the desire to change them, that led Professor Frank Rudy Cooper to the create the Race, Gender & Policing Program at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. 

Now in his second year as a Boyd professor