The UNM Board of Regents has presented UNM Law Professor Jim Ellis with the Regents’ Meritorious Service Award for his dedication to the students he has taught and mentored, his impact on the l…

UNM Law Professor Margaret Montoya has been awarded the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights for 2008-09 at City University of New York School of Law. The Burns Chair is awarded to "leading figures in…

Professor Christine Zuni Cruz spent January at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law as the school's Visiting Wallace S. Fujiyama Professor. During her month in Hawaii, she ta…

UNM Law Professor Leo Romero will serve as interim dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, effective May 18. He will serve in that capacity for the 2008-2009 academic year while UNM conduc…

Maggie Murray, left in photo, edged out Desiree Gurule to take top honors in the 13th Annual New Mexico Court of Appeals Oral Advocacy Tournament. A total of 32 first-year law students competed in th…

Working on an asylum case in the Community Lawyering Clinic this past spring, three UNM law students learned more than how to research a case; they learned about the higher stakes that can be involve…

Members of the UNM Law faculty helped organize and participated in the Association of American Law Schools 2008 Conference on Clinical Legal Education, which took place in Tucson last May.

Associate …

Reed Benson joined the UNM law faculty in July 2008, contributing a broad background in environmental work, including five years as executive director of WaterWatch of Oregon. In addition to teaching…

Professor Barbara Bergman has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UNM School of Law.

She has been a member of the faculty since 1987 and focuses her teaching on criminal law, but on…

The newest additions to the UNM School of Law's Native community, members of the first-year class, were welcomed to the law school at a dinner in their honor.

Professor Gloria Valencia-Weber and her h…

The Indian Law Program at the UNM School of Law was honored by the ABA's General Practice, Small Firm and Solo Division for its efforts to increase the number of Native American and Alaska Native law…