Peter A Allard School of Law

Ngai Pindell

Dean and Professor

He/Him/His

  • Office:
    Allard Hall, Room 263

Profile

Dean Pindell received his A.B. (Economics) in 1993 from Duke University and his J.D. in 1996 from Harvard Law School. Following graduation, he practiced community development law in Baltimore, MD, followed by a fellowship and visiting assistant professorship at the University of Baltimore School of Law Community Development Clinic. He joined the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and earned promotion to Professor in 2008. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of property law, wills and trusts, affordable housing, community development, and local government law.

At UNLV, Dean Pindell has held a number of academic administrative roles, most recently as Vice Provost and Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President and Provost from January to July 2019. He also served as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (2016-2018), and as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and then Vice Dean in the Boyd School of Law (2012-2016).

Research and Publications

To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my publications on the following sites: 

Publications

Book Review: Nevada Real Property Practice and Procedure Manual, Nevada Lawyer Magazine, September 2021.
Stop Leaving Money on the Table and Keep Families at Home Around Theirs, Nev. Independent, November 20, 2020 (Op-Ed)
Ngai Pindell
“Planning for Housing Requirements”
in Tim Iglesias, Rochelle Lento, and Rigel Oliveri eds., The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, 3rd ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2021
Ngai Pindell, Anthony Cabot & Brian Wallt, eds.,
Regulating Land Based Casinos: Policies, Procedures, and Economics
Las Vegas: UNLV Gaming Press, 2018
Ngai Pindell & Anthony Cabot, eds.,
Regulating Land Based Casinos: Policies, Procedures, and Economics
Las Vegas: UNLV Gaming Press, 2014
Ngai Pindell
“Nevada's Residential Real Estate Crisis: Local Governments and the Use of Eminent Domain to Condemn Mortgage Notes”
Full text: (2013) 13 Nevada LJ 888-903
Anthony Cabot & Ngai Pindell, eds.,
Regulating Internet Gaming: Challenges and Opportunities
Las Vegas: UNLV Gaming Press, 2013
Ngai Pindell
“Further Consideration: Recent Transformations of Public Housing Policy”
in Susan D. Bennett et al., eds., Community Economic Development Law: A Text for Engaged Learning
Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2012
Ngai Pindell
“Planning for Housing Requirements”
in Tim Iglesias & Rochelle Lento, eds., The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, 2nd ed.
Chicago: American Bar Association, 2011
Ngai Pindell
“The Fair Housing Act at Forty: Predatory Lending and the City as Plaintiff”
Full text: (2009) 18:2 J Aff Housing & Community Dev L 169-183
SSRN Paper
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“Home Sweet Home? The Efficacy of Rental Restrictions to Promote Neighborhood Stability”
Full text: (2009) 29:1 St Louis U Pub L Rev 41-83
SSRN Paper
Ngai Pindell
“Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp., 458 U.S.419 (1982)”
in Tim Iglesias, Rochelle Lento & Rigel Oliveri, eds., Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008
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“The Right to the City,”
Full text: (2008) 24 Harv BlackLetter LJ 69-71
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“Developing Las Vegas: Creating Inclusionary Affordable Housing Requirements in Development Agreements”
Full text: (2007) 42:2 Wake Forest L Rev 419-457
Ngai Pindell
“Finding a Right to the City: Exploring Property and Community in Brazil and in the United States”
Full text: (2007) 42:2 Wake Forest L Rev 419-457
Ngai Pindell
“Planning for Housing Requirements”
in Tim Iglesias & Rochelle Lento, eds., The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development
London: American Bar Association, 2005
Ngai Pindell
“Is There Hope For HOPE VI?: Community Economic Development and Localism”
Full text: (2003) 35:2 Conn L Rev 385-437

Selected publications are also listed on the Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database.

Ngai Pindell

Organization Affiliations

  • Dean's Office

Research Interests

  • Law and cities
  • Law and society
  • Property, housing and real estate
  • Urban and municipal law

How can urbanization generate resilient and inclusive communities?


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