Professor Nathalie Martin was quoted in the Jan. 22 edition of the Wall Street Journal in an article titled, "Bill Collectors Face Disclosure Rules." The article was about a rule New Mexico Attorney …

Emeritus Professor Leo M. Romero became chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in January 2011 for a two-year term. NITA pioneered the "learning-by-doing" …

Professor Jennifer Moore has co-authored the fourth edition of Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, a casebook that provides a thoughtful analysis of refugee law rooted …

Professors Reed Benson and Denise Fort joined colleagues from six continents to participate in an early January 2011 water law colloquium titled, "Water Law: Through the Lens of Conflict," at the Uni…

Dean Kevin Washburn has authored Gaming and Gambling Law: Cases and Materials, a casebook that focuses on the unique issues that arise in both the legal and illegal components of the fast-growing Am…

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UNM Law Professor Christine Zuni Cruz has received the 2010 Pincus Award, the most prestigious honor presented by the American Association of Law Schools' Section on Clinical Legal Education. She rec…

Professor Denise Fort will teach a University of New Mexico summer program at the Schloss Dyck Castle in Germany's picturesque Rhine country. The program title is Carbon and the Future of the World. …

Professor Chris Fritz was invited to Georgetown University Law Center in mid-March to participate in a seminar titled, New Books on the Constitution. One of those books was Fritz's American Sovereigns…

University of New Mexico Law professors Christian Fritz and Nathal…

Professor Margaret Montoya received a 2011 Presidential Luminaria Award at the Second Annual Presidential Luminaria Awards and Diversity Celebration in late March. The awards, presented by the Univer…

Tribal court judges, prosecutors, c…

The legislative process became real for law students when the…

Professor Antoinette Sedillo Lopez shared her expertise at an invitation-only Access to Justice Forum at Stanford Law School on March 18. She joined about 20 legal experts at the roundtable event whe…

Professor Sergio Pareja was included in a Bucket List presented in National Jurist's March 2011 issue. He was one of 22 professors and one dean chosen from across the country for the magazine's list …

Two teams from the University of New Mexico School of Law competed in the annual Animal Law Moot Court competition at Harvard Law School in late February. The teams of Caela…

Professor Marsha Baum presented a paper titled, "Property Status and Treatment of Animals: Impact of Law on Non-human Animals in U.S. Society," at the Association for Law, Property and Society’…

University of New Mexico School of Law professors Gloria Valencia-Weber and Barbara Creel (`90) made separate presentations at Thomas Jefferson School of Law's 10th Anniversary Women and the Law Conf…

Professor Nathalie Martin presented a paper titled, "Transactional Clinics' Impact on Social Justice Issues" during a panel discussion at a mid-April conference organized by Northwestern University S…

Joshua Curtis (`13) took home the top prize in th…

Professor Denise Fort presented a talk titled, “Groundwater in the West” at a symposium at the University of Idaho School of Law. The April 15 symposium titled, One Source: Evolution of t…

Professor Alfred Mathewson addressed gender equity in college sports in a presentation during a conference at Wake Forest University in mid-April. He was invited to be a presenter on a panel titled, …

Professor Margaret Montoya was the keynote speaker at Cesar Chavez Week in late March at the University of California at Davis School of Law. Her talk was titled, "Identity in the Legal Profession." …

Professor Jennifer Moore contributed a perspective from her on-the-ground experience in Africa at an early April conference titled, Rebuilding Sierra Leone, organized by the University of South Carol…

Previous contributors returned for the second issue of the New Mexico Law Review's (NMLR) 40th volume to help commemorate the journal's first 40 years of publication. In the anniversary articles, the…

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan shared her wit, wisdom and encouragement with members of the Class of 2011 during the University of New Mexico School of Law commencement ceremony on May 14. A…

Professor Marsha Baum has authored a chapter titled, "'Room on the Ark?': The Symbolic Nature of U.S. Pet Evacuation Statutes for Nonhuman Animals," which was included in the book, Considering Animal…

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled last spring that expert testimony, and not just raw IQ scores, may be considered when determining intellectual disability of a person facing the death penalty. This …

Professor Barbara Blumenfeld has brought Havruta, a traditional Jewish teaching technique, into the legal education dialogue, both in a new article and during an early June conference in New York Cit…

The University of New Mexico Medical-Legal Alliance for Children, a collaborative effort of the University of New Mexico schools of Law and Medicine, received the 2011 President's Award from the New …

More than 70 alumni, friends and faculty gathered in mid-June at the Washington, D.C., home of Sen. Jeff and Anne Bingaman for a UNM School of Law reception. Reminiscences flowed among the Washingto…

Professor Christine Zuni Cruz (`82) was featured for her trail-blazing role in the field of Indian law in a recent article published in the New Mexico Business Weekly. From serving as the first direc…

Professor Denise Fort became director of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center on July 1. She will split her time between teaching at the University of New Mexico School of Law and leading the cen…

Professor Jim Ellis has been promoted to Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank at the University of New Mexico. This prestigious designation is reserved for professors who have demonstrat…

In an op-ed published in the August 14 edition of the Albuquerque Journal, Dean Kevin Washburn provides an historical look at redistricting in New Mexico. As the state Legislature prepares to reconf…

Cultural aspects that come into play when families are faced with end-of-life issues are the focus of Professor Carol …

As a law professor, Max Minzner has found a way to blend his passion for the parts of mathematics and the law that excite him the most. "I love the reasoning and formal logic of math, but I wanted to…

Recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, Dean Kevin Washburn and the law faculty have appointed four professors from the University of New Mexico College of Arts and Sciences a…

In an op-ed published in the September 19 edition of the Albuquerque Journal, Dean Kevin Washburn discusses transparency in New Mexico's judicial selection process. Should every step of the process …

Professor Nathalie Martin was presented with the inaugural Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer & …

Professor Reed Benson was among nine distinguished water law professors from across the United States to participate in an Oct. 7 symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School. The symposium was titled, "21s…

Dean Kevin Washburn will discuss crime in Indian country in a 4 p.m. Oct. 9 lecture at Albuquerque Academy in his role as the academy's Jack & Joanna Grevey Visiting Scholar for Democracy. The title…

Professor Christian Fritz was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History at the society’s annual meeting in early November. He will serve a three-year-term. The…

It’s Wednesday morning and Emeritus Professor Robert Desiderio is getting ready for his weekly lecture on Business Economics for Lawyers. To prepare, he turns on his laptop and positions himsel…

More than 400 alumni and friends of the University of New Mexico School of Law converged at the UNM Student Union Ballroom on Nov. 4 to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Catherine Goldb…

Professor Barbara Blumenfeld has published an article titled, “Teaching Thinking and the Legal Creative Process,” in the fall 2011 issue of The Law Teacher, a publication of the Institute…

Professor Denise Fort, director of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center, was invited to make two presentations at a mid-October gathering of water experts from the United States and Australia. Th…

Professor Denise Fort and Darcy Bushnell (`89) participated in the 47th annual meeting of the American Water Resources Association, which took place in early November in Albuquerque. Fort is director…

Professor Marsha Baum presented a talk titled, "Intellectual Property: A Primer on the Law", on Nov. 4 to Creative ABQ's 2nd Annual Albuquerque Symposium on the Creative Economy. The title of this ye…

Professor Marsha Baum spent last summer in Australia, studying and speaking about animals and the law. In July, she was the invited keynote speaker at the Australian Animal Studies Group conference i…

Dean Kevin Washburn and Jeff Kendall (`12) participated in a Nov. 28 hearing before the interim Committee on Science and Technology of the New Mexico Legislature on the use of natural gas as a trans…