Leaves the University of New Mexico School of Law to Take New Position on February 1st

Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Dickason Professor at the UNM School of Law, has been appointed to Executive Director …

UNM Law School Emerita Professor Margaret Montoya will be honored at the Southwest Women's Law Center's (SWLC) annual "Celebrating Women's Stories" dinner on Tuesday, March 11 along with Major Genera…

UNM Law School Professor Barbara E. Bergman has been selected to receive the 2014 Justice Mary Walters Award from the UNM Women’s Law Caucus at 6 p.m., March 14, 2014 in Ballroom B of the UNM S…

University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Nathalie Martin will be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy on March 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Martin, the Frederick M. Hart…

UNM School of Law Professor Sherri Burr will discuss the University of New Mexico School of Law Not for Profit Art Gallery on ARTS TALK, at 7:00 pm Monday, 3/31/14 on Channel 27 in Albuquerque.

The Ar…

Professor Steven K. Homer has been selected as the Director of the Legal Analysis and Communication Program at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Homer served as Interim Director of the prog…

The UNM School of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Aliza Organick has been selected to be one of the first UNM Teaching Fellows by the UNM Center for Teaching Excellence. Organick was select…

Professor Elizabeth Rapaport, an emeritus professor of law and professor of philosophy at the UNM School of Law, is quoted in the Washington Post article President Obama has granted clemency fewer ti…

Legal scholarship by Yael Zakai Cannon, Assistant Professor of the University of New Mexico School of Law, was cited in an important federal court class certification decision affecting children with…

Kim Carpenter, co-author of "The Vow",…

The University of New Mexico School of Law Not-for-Profit Art Gallery will launch its Student Arti…

Professor Nathalie Martin testified before the United Sates Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, on March 26, 2014 …

Eric Knapp ('98) has made a founding gift to establish the Peter A. Winograd Scholarship in Law, honoring Peter Winograd, who served as Associate Dean from 1976 to 2005 and has played an influential …

A friend-of-the-court brief filed on behalf of the petitioner in Hall vs. Florida by University of New Mexico School of Law Distinguished Professor Jim Ellis and a team of UNM Law faculty and student…

University of New Mexico School of Law Distinguished Professor Jim Ellis and a team of UNM Law faculty and students were instrumental in obtaining a recent Supreme Court ruling on how states can diagn…

Assistant Professor Alex Ritchie spoke at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Annual Institute in Vail, Colorado, on July 18, 2014, to lawyers and academics on trends and developments in the re…

Professor Reed Benson spoke at the American Bar Association's Annual Water Law Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 5, 2014. He teamed up with California water attorney David Aladjem to debate th…

When it comes to finances, ignorance is not bliss and knowledge is golden. Financial well-being increases when individuals educate themselves about how to eliminate debt, frugally purchase cars and h…

Adding Expertise in Foundational Courses and to Nationally-Renowned Clinical Program

The UNM Law School recently had a …

Professor Marsha Baum was recently interviewed by host Jenny Rabinowitz on Animal Talk, a program on KSFR 101.FM, Public Radio for Santa Fe. Baum teaches a broad range of first-year and upper-level cl…

Professor Sherri Burr’s newest book “A Short & Happy Guide to Financial Well-being” is a finalist for the New Mexico Book Awards in the category of Business Book. She also contribut…

Read the related story in the Albuquerque Journal about Pro…

UNM School of Law Regents Professor Sherri Burr has won the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in the Business Book category for A Short & Happy Guide to Financial Well-Being. The awards are presente…

Emeritus Professor Denise Fort shared her expertise in water law as an invited presenter at the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) 2014 Annual Water Resources Conference, held November 3 -6,…

Seven UNM Law School faculty and six staff members showed what good sports they were by volunteering for a pie-throwing cont…

Emeritus Professor Ted Parnall (`67) has been trotting the globe for his entire legal career, working on law development and legal education in developing countries.

His first assignment in The Lao P…

The University of New Mexico School of Law Clinical Program is pleased to announce the first New Mexico LGBT Legal Service Day. Under the supervision of Professors Sarah Steadman and Serge Martinez, …

The University of New Mexico recently honored outgoing regents Gene Gallegos (`6…