Faculty
Professor Carol A. Parker
Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology
Keleher Professor of Law
B.A., Michigan State University
M.I.S., University of Michigan
J.D., Wayne State University
Member of the Michigan Bar
Professor Parker currently serves as Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology, and holds the title of Keleher Professor of Law. She teaches Wills and Trusts, Advanced Legal Research and International Legal Research at the UNM School of Law. Since her arrival at UNM, Professor Parker has worked to build a strong community outreach program for the Law Library, including an innovative Native American Access to Justice Project. She also serves on the Dean's faculty management team, the teaching effectiveness and assessment committee, and chairs the library and information technology committee.
She joined the Law School in 2004, leaving behind a position as Assistant Director at the Wayne State University Law Library. Before that, she served as the Head of Faculty & Public Services in the Law Library at the Michigan State University College of Law. She has taught Advanced Legal Research as well as Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy at Michigan State University.
Her current research interests include the impact of the open access movement on legal scholarly communication, a topic on which she has presented at various conferences. Parker's publications include articles in the New Mexico Law Review, Wayne Law Review and the Michigan Bar Journal. Her most recent 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), was ranked in the Top 10 most downloaded papers for the Law and Technology category in the SSRN Legal Scholarship Network’s Subject Matter Journal, Law & Society: The Legal Profession. The article also received the 2008 Outstanding Article Award from the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Parker currently serves on the board of directors for the Association of Academic Research Libraries of New Mexico. She represented the Law faculty on the UNM Faculty Senate from 2005-2008. Parker also 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, Professor 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.
Contact Information
Ph.: 505-277-0938
Fax: 505-277-0068
Office: 3329A
Email: cparker@law.unm.edu
