Professor Carol A. Parker

Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Finance and Administration
B.A., Michigan State University
M.I.S., University of Michigan
J.D., Wayne State University
Member of the Michigan Bar

Professor Carol Parker currently serves as associate dean for Finance and Administration. She teaches Wills and Trusts, Advanced Legal Research and International Legal Research. As associate dean, she is responsible for administration of law school finances, personnel, facilities and law journal operations, in addition to the law library and information technology department.

Parker's current research interests include analyzing the impact of faculty and tenured statuses for academic law librarians and the impact of the open access movement on legal scholarly communication. She has presented on both topics at various conferences. Her most recent article, The Need for Faculty Status and Uniform Tenure Requirements for Law Librarians, 103:1 L. Libr. J. 7-38 (Winter 2011), received the "AALL LexisNexis® Call for Papers Open Division Award" for 2010. An earlier article, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship, 37 N.M. L. Rev. 441-77 (2007), received the 2008 Outstanding Article Award from the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries. Parker's other publications include articles in the Wayne Law Review and the Michigan Bar Journal.

Parker currently serves on the UNM Faculty Senate Budget Committee and represented the UNM law faculty on the UNM Faculty Senate from 2005-2008. She also serves on the AALL Leadership Development Committee and the ALL-SIS Committee on Tenure/Continuous Appointment. She is active in SWALL and serves on the LIPA Marketing committee and the LIPA State Representatives committee. She is a board member of the Desert States Law Library Consortium, which is working on an ambitious project to establish a shared repository of pre-statehood and primary legal materials for the six member states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming).

Prior to joining the UNM School of Law, she was assistant director at the Wayne State University Law Library. Before that, she served as the head of Faculty and Public Services in the Law Library at the Michigan State University College of Law. She taught Advanced Legal Research and Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy while at Michigan State University. Parker served on the Faculty Senate at Wayne State, and served for several years on the State Bar of Michigan Committee on Libraries, Legal Research & Publications, chairing that committee in 2000. Immediately after graduating from Wayne State University Law School, Parker clerked at the Michigan Court of Appeals. While at Wayne State University Law School, she served as an assistant editor of the Wayne Law Review.

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