Richard L. Brown | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Richard L. Brown
		Emeritus Professor


		Email: richard.brown@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A, University of California, Los Angeles, 1967 J.D., magna cum laude, Indiana University School of Law, 1975 M.L.L, University of Washington, 1978

	Professor Brown was the founding Director of the Wiener-Rogers Law Library at the William S. Boyd School of Law, a position he held from January 1998 to June 2008. Professor Brown earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Indiana University in 1975, where he served as an associate editor of the Indiana Law Journal, and earned his M.L.L. in 1978 from the University of Washington. He served as the Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at Arizona State University College of Law for 15 years. While at Arizona State, he oversaw the planning and construction of an architectural award winning law library. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, he was assistant law librarian and assistant professor of law at Florida State University College of Law. Professor Brown was a visiting professor at Michigan State University in 2008-09 and will visiting at Seattle University during the 2009-10 academic year.

	Areas of Expertise: Property Law Wills, Trusts and Estates

	Selected Publications: BOOK Guide To Florida Legal Research (1980). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Undeserving Heirs?— The Case of the “Terminated” Parent, 40 U. Rich. L. Rev. 547 (2006). The Holograph Problem: The Case Against Holographic Wills, 74 Tenn. L. Rev. 93 (2006). Disinheriting the “Legal Orphan”: Inheritance Rights of Children after Termination of Parental Rights, 70 Mo. L. Rev. 125 (2005). Copyright and Computer Databases: The Case of the Bibliographic Utility, 11 Rutgers Computer & Tech. L.J. 17 (1985). Note, Appellate Representation of Indigents in Indiana, 50 Ind. L.J. 154 (1974)(with Scott T. Kragie, et. al). --> More Publications (pdf)

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