Kathryn R.L. Rand, J.D. (B.A. North Dakota, J.D. Michigan; Certificate, Harvard Management Development Program), is a visiting professor at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, where she teaches in the Indian Nations Gaming and Governance Program Here courses include Indian Gaming Law, Tribal Sports Betting, and Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing in Indian Gaming Law; she also serves as a faculty advisor for the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.

Rand is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the University of North Dakota School of Law. With Steven Andrew Light, she co-founded the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy at the University of North Dakota, the first university research center dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of Indian gaming and socioeconomic development. A law professor and a political scientist, Rand and Light are widely regarded as the nation’s leading academic experts on tribal gaming enterprises and socioeconomic development. They have authored over 75 publications exploring issues related to tribal governance and gaming, addressing how and why tribally owned casinos came to be and how they have remade the legal, political, and regulatory landscape for gaming and socioeconomic development across the U.S. Their books, seen as standards in the field, include INDIAN GAMING LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (3d ed. 2026), INDIAN GAMING LAW AND POLICY (3d ed. 2025), and INDIAN GAMING AND TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY: THE CASINO COMPROMISE (2005), which was featured on C-SPAN’s BOOK TV. 

They have testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, and have been featured speakers at numerous university and gaming industry events throughout the world, including at Arizona State, Boston College, Columbia, Stanford, and the Universities of Helsinki, Manitoba, and Macau, as well as at the American Gaming Association, Global Gaming Expo, Indian Gaming Association, and the Casino esports Conference and many more. They have been quoted or featured in such media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, Las Vegas Weekly, New Republic, NPR’s Marketplace, Washington Post, Indian Country Today, Tribal Business News, and the New York Times.