As casino entertainment and gaming in the digital age spread in popularity across the globe, laws and regulations have made the industry more complex. This is why a group of university officials and gaming industry professionals are creating a program at UNLV dedicated to gaming regulation, says Vegas Inc.
UNLV’s hotel college and law school are connecting to form the center that will be used to conduct research on how well different gaming regulations work and offer classes for industry professionals or new regulators with limited professional exposure to casinos to get themselves up to speed. It should be open by next academic school year with its own executive director.
Daniel Hamilton, dean of UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law, said the center still needs official approval but that is being pursued. The school has already created a master of laws in gaming law and regulation that will welcome its first class next fall.
“There’s never been an academic field dedicated looking at how you monitor and regulate this very complex and global industry,” says Bo Bernhard, the executive director of UNLV’s International Gaming Institute. “One of the things this is doing is really inventing a field of study.”
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