Nancy Rapoport

is a UNLV Distinguished Professor, a 2026 Barrick Distinguished Scholar, the Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV. Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, law firm behavior, artificial intelligence and the law, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture. She is back on the Board of Directors of the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement (the Mob Museum) and also serves as a Trustee of Claremont Graduate University and as the Chair of its Audit and Risk Management Committee. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. In 2017, she received the Commercial Law League of America’s Lawrence P. King Award for Excellence in Bankruptcy, and in 2025, she received the Commercial and Consumer Law Scholarship Award from the Section on Commercial and Consumer Law at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.