Faculty by Expertise

The University of New Mexico School of Law faculty brings to the legal arena a broad range of expertise that it regularly contributes to the larger legal community and the state. Professors are available to share their individual expertise when a news event occurs, either locally or nationally.

Following is a comprehensive listing, including telephone numbers and email addresses, of UNM law professors and their areas of expertise. We recommend you leave both a voice and email message when seeking comment.

For help identifying the best faculty member to provide comment or answer questions, please contact UNM School of Law Communications or Benson Hendrix, UNM communications specialist.

 

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Administrative Law	Reed Benson	Eileen Gauna	John LaVelle
Alternative Dispute Resolution	Scott Hughes
Animal Law	Marsha Baum	Dawinder Sidhu (Service Animals)
Antitrust Law	Alfred Mathewson
Arbitration	Scott Hughes	Ted Occhialino
Art Law	Sherri Burr
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Banking
Bankruptcy Law	Nathalie Martin
Bioethics	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez	Rob Schwartz
Business Ethics	Alfred Mathewson
Business Law	Nathalie Martin	Alfred Mathewson	Sergio Pareja
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Capital Punishment	Jim Ellis	Elizabeth Rapaport
Child Advocacy	April Land	Mike Norwood
Children's Health Law and Policy	Mike Norwood	Rob Schwartz
Civil Procedure	Ted Occhialino
Civil Rights	Dawinder Sidhu (Education, post-9/11)
Clemency	Elizabeth Rapaport
Clinical Legal Education	Barbara Creel (Cultural Literacy)	April Land	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez	Jose Martinez
	Alfred Mathewson	Mike Norwood	Christine Zuni Cruz
Community Property	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Computer Applications and Internet Law	Mike Norwood
Consumer and Commercial Law	Nathalie Martin
Constitutional History	Chris Fritz
Constitutional Law	Jim Ellis	Margaret Montoya	Dawinder Sidhu
Contracts	Nathalie Martin	Jennifer Moore	Sergio Pareja
Copyright	Marsha Baum	Sherri Burr
Corporations	Alfred Mathewson
Criminal Justice	Barbara Bergman	Jim Ellis	Elizabeth Rapaport
	Leo Romero	Kevin Washburn
Criminal Law in Indian Country	Barbara Creel	Kevin Washburn
Cultural Property	Sherri Burr
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Disability Law	Jim Ellis	Dawinder Sidhu (Education)
Domestic Violence	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
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Economic Development	Nathalie Martin	Jose Martinez	Alfred Mathewson
Economics and the Law
Elder Law	Nathalie Martin
Election Law	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Employment Discrimination	Margaret Montoya	Dawinder Sidhu
Employment Law	Margaret Montoya
Entertainment Law	Sherri Burr
Environmental Justice	Eileen Gauna
Environmental Law	Eileen Gauna	Denise Fort
Evidence	Barbara Bergman	Barbara Creel
Executive Clemency	Elizabeth Rapaport
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Family Law	April Land	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Federal Habeas Corpus	Barbara Creel	Dawinder Sidhu (National Security)
Federal Jurisdiction	April Land
Film Law	Sherri Burr
Financial Crisis
Financial Literacy	Nathalie Martin
Financial Markets and Regulation
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Gambling Law	Kevin Washburn
Global Warming	Denise Fort
Government Ethics	Paul Biderman
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Health Law	Nathalie Martin	Rob Schwartz
Health Law Ethics and Policy	Rob Schwartz
Human Rights	Jennifer Moore
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Immigration Law	Jennifer Moore	Gloria Valencia-Weber
Indian Civil Rights	Barbara Creel
Indian Gaming	John LaVelle	Kevin Washburn
Indian Habeas Corpus	Barbara Creel
Indian Law	Barbara Creel	John LaVelle	Gloria Valencia-Weber	Kevin Washburn
	Christine Zuni Cruz
Indian Tax	John LaVelle
Information Technology and the Law	Marsha Baum
Intellectual Property	Marsha Baum	Sherri Burr
International Business Transactions	Alfred Mathewson	Sergio Pareja
International Employment Law	Margaret Montoya
International Family Law	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
International Law	Sherri Burr	Jennifer Moore	Elizabeth Rapaport
International Law and Indigenous People	Gloria Valencia-Weber	Christine Zuni Cruz
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Judicial Selection	Leo Romero
Jurisprudence	Chris Fritz	Elizabeth Rapaport
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Latinos and the Law	Margaret Montoya
Law and Medicine	Margaret Montoya
Law and Society	Nathalie Martin	Margaret Montoya	Elizabeth Rapaport
Law Libraries and Archives	Carol Parker
Legal Education	Leo Romero	Kevin Washburn	Peter Winograd
Legal Ethics	Marsha Baum	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez	Elizabeth Rapaport
Legal History	Chris Fritz
Legal Writing	Megan Argo	Barbara Blumenfeld	Steven Homer
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Media: TV and Radio	Sherri Burr	Margaret Montoya
Mental Disabilities, Mental Health and the Law	Jim Ellis
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NAFTA	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
National Security Law	Elizabeth Rapaport	Dawinder Sidhu
Natural Resources Law	Reed Benson	Denise Fort
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Pipeline Programs / Partnerships with Public Schools	Margaret Montoya
Popular Culture and the Law	Sherri Burr	Margaret Montoya
Professional Responsibility	Mike Norwood	Elizabeth Rapaport
Property and the Law	Marsha Baum	Chris Fritz	Eileen Gauna
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Race and the Law	Margaret Montoya
Real Estate Law	Nathalie Martin
Refugee and Asylum Law	Jennifer Moore
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Sales	Marsha Baum	Fred Hart
Securities Law
Sikhs in America	Dawinder Sidhu
Sports Law	Alfred Mathewson
State Constitutional History and Law	Chris Fritz
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Tax Law	Alfred Mathewson	Sergio Pareja
Terrorism and the Law	Elizabeth Rapaport
Tort Law	Jose Martinez	Margaret Montoya	Ted Occhialino	Rob Schwartz
Trademark Law	Marsha Baum
Trials	Barbara Bergman
Tribal Courts	Christine Zuni Cruz
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Urban Poverty	Dawinder Sidhu
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Water Law	Reed Benson
Water Policy	Denise Fort
Weather in U.S. Law and Society	Marsha Baum
Wills and Trusts	Sherri Burr	Sergio Pareja	Carol Parker
Women's Rights	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez	Elizabeth Rapaport
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