Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law

Nancy Rapoport (Law) was a panelist for an Association of American Law Schools/West Academic AI in Legal Education webinar on Law School AI Policies: Frameworks, Guardrails, and Guidance
Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented two sessions at the 2026 Nevada Tax & Trust Conference: "Ethics" and the "Corporate Jurisdiction Competition (Ethics)."
Drew Simshaw (Law) was appointed as a member of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research's Program Committee.
Drew Simshaw (Law) was appointed as a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Technology, Law & Legal Education's Summer Webinar Series Committee. 
Shih-Chun 鈥淪teven鈥 Chien (Law) presented a coauthored project, A Gravitational Theory of Prosecutor Networks (with Professor Ronald F. Wright of the Wake Forest University School of Law), at the Criminal Justice Ethics Schmooze at Fordham University School of Law.
Eve Hanan (Law) published her new article, 鈥淧resumed Guilt: Epistemic Closure in Pregnancy Prosecutions,鈥 in the Buffalo Law Review.
Francine Lipman (Law) was a speaker on a panel about the state of ITIN litigation landscape and how it impacts immigrant entrepreneurs.  
Lena Rieke (Law) presented her paper "Limited Confrontation" at the Evidence Summer Workshop at Vanderbilt Law School.
Leah Chan Grinvald (Law) was honored by the Clark County Bar Foundation as a 2026 Liberty Bell Award recipient. The award is presented to an individual in the community who upholds the rule of law, contributes to good government within the community, stimulates a sense of civic responsibility, and encourages respect for the law in the courts.
Joe Regalia (Law) presented at the District Court Conference for the U.S. District Court of Nevada on "Leveraging AI in Legal Writing."
Marketa Trimble's (Law) new book, Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws, was published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented at the Madrona Venture Capital General Counsel Summit.