Faculty
Professor Carol A. Parker
Law Library Director and Associate 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 became the Director of the UNM School of Law Library 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 teaches Wills and Trusts, Advanced Legal Research and International Legal Research at the UNM School of Law. She previously taught Advanced Legal Research, and Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy at Michigan State University. 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.
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.
She frequently lectures on free Internet legal resources in continuing education classes and at conferences and meetings. Her current research interests include the impact of the open access movement on legal scholarly communication, a topic on which she presented at the 2005 conference for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction and again at the 2007 annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries. Parker's publications include articles in the New Mexico Law Review, Wayne Law Review and the Michigan Bar Journal.
Parker currently represents the Law faculty on the UNM Faculty Senate and serves on the board of directors for the Association of Academic Research Libraries of New Mexico. 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.
Contact Information
Ph.: 505-277-0938
Fax: 505-277-0068
Office: 3329A
Email: cparker@law.unm.edu
