On Wednesday, March 2, the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV announced that Leah Chan Grinvald will become the next dean for the William S. Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2022. Grinvald, who was selected following a national search for the position, is currently associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. She will be the first Asian American to lead the UNLV Boyd School of Law.
As associate dean at Suffolk’s law school for the past five years, Grinvald has overseen the school’s academic curriculum. This includes overall curricular structure, American Bar Association compliance and the creation and launch of new programs, including a hybrid online JD program, a Master of Science in Law, and numerous non-JD certificate programs.
Prior to joining the faculty at Suffolk Law in 2013, she was an assistant professor of law at St. Louis University School of Law. Grinvald is also a dedicated intellectual property scholar whose research agenda has focused on the enforcement of intellectual property laws, as well as potential negative impacts of related laws on small businesses and entrepreneurs. Before entering academia, Grinvald served as global corporate counsel at TaylorMade Golf Company, where she advised on a variety of legal issues including copyright, trademark, contract and employment law.