One of the best things about my job at the Center for Gaming Research is that I get to read and share some great articles. A few weeks ago, I attended the i-Gaming workshop put on by Lionel Sawyer & Collins–you might have read about it (here’s a good Gaming Today piece). Reading through the voluminous notebook the organizers gave to all the participants, I saw some clear, concise writing about the historical evolution of Nevada’s gaming statutes.
I’d seen this before, in International Gaming Law, but it dawned on me that the general public would be well served by getting access to such a good summary of the development of gambling’s legal Nevada framework. So I asked Bob Faiss if it would be OK to reproduce part of the workbook as an Occasional Paper. He readily agreed. The result is the tenth paper in our series:
Robert D. Faiss and Gregory R. Gemignani. “Nevada Gaming Statutes: Their Evolution and History”
ABSTRACT: Throughout the past eighty years, Nevada gaming has changed considerably. Nevada’s gaming laws have both reflected and influenced that change. At every step of the way, regulatory changes paved the way for the growth and evolution of Nevada’s gaming industry into one of the world’s largest and best regulated.
Keywords: Nevada, gaming, regulation, casino
View the paper here (pdf)
Papers like this really further the Center’s mission of sharing easy-to-understand information about gambling and casinos with the public. I hope that it gets a lot of readers–it’s a great summary that I think makes understanding the current state of Nevada gaming that much easier.