In November, and twelve years after stepping down from the Indiana House of Representatives, Dr. David Orentlicher was elected for a two-year term to the Nevada Assembly. He represents District 20, which lies just to the east of the UNLV campus. His committee assignments include Health and Human Services, Judiciary, and Revenue, and he is working this month on bill proposals on matters of public health and health care system reform. He also expects to sponsor legislation on criminal justice reform. Nevada's legislature meets part-time and every other year, so Dr. O will be able to continue

Prof. Max Gakh’s Fall 2020 Public Health Law course brought together law students and graduate public health students to delve into the legal issues that shape health outcomes and public health practice, with the COVID-19 pandemic a prominent theme and a backdrop. Students explored issues raised by the pandemic, including state government authority to regulate interstate travel to slow the spread of the pandemic; the legal and ethical issues involved in distributing potential vaccines; public health legal preparedness and response in the context of COVID-19; and new challenges exposed by the

Dr. Leslie Griffin is enjoying being a visiting scholar at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She is working at the Institute for the Medical Humanities. UTMB is known for its commitment to bioethics and to recovery from brain injury.

Sara Gordon is an Associate Professor at the UNLV Boyd School of Law and a charter member of the UNLV Health Law Program. Her research centers on the experiences of individuals with mental illness and addiction who enter the criminal justice system. In particular, Prof. Gordon’s recent research examines drug and other specialty courts, which were originally intended as a way to divert people with criminal charges out of the criminal justice system and allow them to instead receive treatment for the mental illness or addiction that led to their arrest.

Her recent piece in the Illinoi

Ann McGinley is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of disability, employment, and torts law and a leader in Multidimensional Masculinities Theory, an emerging discipline that studies how social norms of masculinity influence legal rules. A charter member of the UNLV Health Law Program, Prof. McGinley is the William S. Boyd Professor of Law and co-director of the UNLV Workplace Law Program.

She has published more than fifty law review articles and book chapters, and is the author of Disability Law: Cases, Materials, Problems, 6^th edition (Carolina Academic Press 2017) and Dis

Max Gakh, JD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences and the Associate Director of the UNLV Health Law Program. His research centers on the intersection of law, policy, and public health and investigates how law and policy can improve (or hinder) the health of communities. It includes exploring the government’s legal authority to promote health, laws relevant to public health emergencies, and laws and policies outside the health sector that impact health. He is especially interested in interdisciplinary research and education.

Recently, Max co-authored