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2018

University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Human Rights Law

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Restraining Forced Marriage, Lisa V. Martin May 2018

Restraining Forced Marriage, Lisa V. Martin

Nevada Law Journal

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Beyond Bad Apples: Adopting Sentinel Event Reviews In Nevada's Criminal Justice System, Beatriz Aguirre May 2018

Beyond Bad Apples: Adopting Sentinel Event Reviews In Nevada's Criminal Justice System, Beatriz Aguirre

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


What We Talk About When We Talk About Sanctuary Cities, Michael Kagan Jan 2018

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sanctuary Cities, Michael Kagan

Scholarly Works

In this Essay, Professor Michael Kagan asserts when immigrant rights advocates ask their local, state and university leaders to become "sanctuary cities," "sanctuary states," "sanctuary campuses," and so on, they carelessly hurt immigrants in places like Nevada, Texas, and Arizona. And there are a lot of immigrants in those states. People who mean to help immigrants are hurting them. He first sets out assumptions he makes about the semantics and politics of "sanctuary" debates. These assumptions include setting out the kind of actual policies that are usually under consideration when people invoke the sanctuary label, and a way of understanding …


A Right To Care, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2018

A Right To Care, Stacey A. Tovino

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In this Article, Professor Stacey Tovino examines the right to care through a personal and historical lens, then attempts to fill a scholarly gap in legal literature surrounding the right to skilled care and rehabilitation for patients with group or commercial insurance. Professor Tovino first recounts the history of Medicare coverage for skilled care and rehabilitation, then she examines the limitations of group and commercial insurance, finally concluding by asserting a right to care.