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March 31st

Kathryn & Steve's UNLV Faculty Lecture Podcast

Mar 31 2012
Kathryn&Steve visited the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in March.  We guest lectured on tribal gaming law and policy in a Federal Indian Law class, met with the student Gaming Law Society, and presented a faculty lecture on legal education and gaming law and policy.  A podcast of our faculty lecture, which connects tribal gaming, the practice of gaming law, professionalism, and legal education, is available at http://gaming.unlv.edu/podcast.html .

Thanks to David Schwartz with the UNLV Center for Gaming Research for hosting the podcast!

March 16th

Steve & Kathryn to Visit UNLV

Mar 16 2012
We're off to Las Vegas to visit UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law on March 26&27.  We're slated to give a presentation on gambling law education, as well as visit classes and meet with faculty and students.  On March 26, we'll visit Professor Rolnick's Indian Law class and meet student members of the Gaming Law Society.  On March 27, we'll give a public lecture on gambling law education, stemming from our work on an Indian gaming ethic and its role in professional values and ideals.  Looking forward to it!

March 2nd

New Article on Gaming Law Courses & Legal Education

Mar 2 2012
Kathryn's latest article appears in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of the Gaming Law Review&Economics: "Educating Lawyers Through Gambling Law: How a Course in Gambling Law Furthers Knowledge, Skills, and Values in Legal Education."  In it, she discusses the Carnegie Report on legal education and the three "apprenticeships" necessary to effectively educate aspiring attorneys.  Kathryn argues that a well designed and taught gambling law course can further students' substantive knowledge of the law, their skills as practicing attorneys, and their understanding of the values and ideals of the legal profession.

The citation is 16 Gaming L. Rev. & Econ. 8-14.  A pdf of the article is available on request.

February 7th

Kathryn to Present at ABA Gaming Law Minefield

Feb 7 2012
Kathryn is scheduled to present at the ABA's National Institute on the Gaming Law Minefield in Las Vegas, Feb. 23-24, 2012.  Her presentation is part of a panel on "Ethics and the Gaming Industry," which will discuss ethical issues faced by lawyers practicing in the gaming industry, with a focus on the relationship between the regulators and the regulated.  Kathryn's presentation will further develop Kathryn&Steve's concept of an "Indian Gaming Ethic" to guide tribal decisionmaking and to inform decisionmaking by non-tribal folks as well.

January 6th

Some Recent Citations to Rand & Light in Federal Court Cases

Jan 6 2012
Menominee Indian Tribe v. U.S. Dep't of Interior, No. 09-C-496 (E.D. Wis., Nov. 4, 2010) (slip opinion).  This district court decision by Judge Griesbach concerns the ongoing effort to build an off-reservation tribal casino in Kenosha, Wis., along the I-94 corridor between Milwaukee and Chicago.  (We wrote an article on this all the way back in 2001: Light&Rand, "Are All Bets Off?

January 4th

Light & Rand's First Book Featured as Recommended Gaming Book

Jan 4 2012
In December 2011, Indian Country Today ran a short piece on recommended gaming books, perfect for holiday gift giving.  The list includes our first book, Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise, by Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R.L. Rand (University Press of Kansas, 2005).  The book is described as “well-balanced” and “offer[ing] a more comprehensive analysis of the industry. The authors’ succinct delivery starts with gaming’s history and details the development of Indian law and policy.”

New Article on Internet Gaming and "Tribal Gaming Ethic"

Jan 4 2012
 Steve and Kathryn have an article in the November 2011 issue of the Gaming Law Review&Economics:

Indian Gaming on the Internet: How the Indian Gaming Ethic Should Guide Tribes’ Assessment of the Online Gaming Market
Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven Andrew Light
Gaming Law Review and Economics. November 2011, Vol. 15, No. 11: 681-691

It’s available through the journal’s web site (or email us if you'd like a pdf of the article):
http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/glre/15/11