Ted Parnall grew up in Albuquerque. He went to Atrisco School, Ernie Pyle and Rio Grande in Albuquerque's South Valley and has been a part of the UNM School of Law community for almost half a century. He entered as a student in 1963, with the class of 1966 and later served as law professor, dean, and now professor emeritus.
He has worked in the private sector as a corporate lawyer in New York City, and in the public sector for the United Nations, USAID, World Bank and Asian Development Bank. His public sector work has taken him to long-term assignments in 11 developing countries to assist on law reform and economic development projects in Africa, Southeast and Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
He was the first western legal adviser in post-1975 Laos, and helped design the UN’s first law reform program in Vietnam. He taught at laws schools in Liberia, China and Ethiopia and helped Indonesia’s efforts to adopt new corporate and capital markets laws in the mid 1990s. More recently, he undertook several legal education assignments in Afghanistan, Kosovo and East Africa.
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