The Law Medicine Day seminar will connect small groups of law students and medical students, as well as some residents and fellows, to discuss various scenarios/vignettes of actual dilemmas that reflect significant ethical and legal conflict. You will have the opportunity to discuss these cases and attempt to resolve them with suggested sources of action, all of which will pit medical ethics against significant legal issues. The goal is to encourage different points of view to surface to increase understanding between the two professions.
Through the Madrid Summer Law Institute, students receive five law school credits in one month and have the opportunity to travel and explore Europe. Classes meet only Mondays through Thursdays, and they are out by 1:00 p.m. each day. Learn More.
The School of Law is New Mexico’s only law school. Our personal touch and close community differentiates our law school experience form others. One-to-one faculty-student contact, one of the best and most competitive tuition rates in the country, a state-of-the-art, hands-on, live-client clinic also set us apart. Not enough? We are highly ranked for popularity, diversity and value too. Read More.
We are pleased to welcome an extraordinary group of nine new tenure-stream faculty members to the Law School. Read more about them and our visiting faculty in our most recent Snapshot.
Student quotes like this confirm our collaborative clinical teaching methods link the classroom and the community to the practice of law. Students gain real-world experience while faculty guide them through the mandatory program that helped to pioneer clinical legal education.
Through the Child & Family Justice Initiative, UNM Law graduates can pursue their passion for serving vulnerable children and families in New Mexico starting on day one of their legal career. Join us as the first DACA recipient to be admitted to the State Bar of New Mexico shares her story.
UNM School of Law received an "A+" from preLaw Magazine for our Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program. We were among the few regionally to receive this rating. Read more.
We keep our classes small. Students get to know their professors. Our faculty bring real-world experience to the classroom and a healthy diversity of backgrounds. Read more.
The University of New Mexico School of Law is known for its low student-to-faculty ratio and excellent employment rates for graduates. UNM Law outshines many other law schools, as shown by the latest rankings. Schedule a visit or join us for an information session to see when we’ll be in your area.
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UNM Law consistently ranks high in educational value. Our students graduate with their career options less constrained by debt.
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