At the invitation of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Professor Nathalie Martin shared her knowledge on the perils of payday lending at the association’s winter meeting. Th…

Camille Carey has permanently joined the UNM law faculty, after spending a semester as a visiting professor in the school’s clinical law program. She will teach the Community Lawyering and Law …

Professor Alfred Mathewson was presented with the Keep the Dream Alive Award by the MLK Multicultural Board during Martin Luther King Day events in Albuquerque.

He received the award along with Amy B…

Does our current preoccupation with the federal Constitution constrain our understanding of the American constitutional tradition? This was the question Professor Chris Fritz sought to answer on Feb.…

The Professor Margaret Montoya Law Center has opened its doors at Atrisco Heritage Academy (AHA) High School, a state-of-the-art college-prep facility taking shape on Albuquerque’s Southwest Me…

The UNM School of Law closed a year-end gift of nearly $1.4 million toward the creation of the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law.

The gift came through a cy pres award from the set…

Professor Christine Zuni Cruz and Honor Keeler (`10) made presentations at Repatriation at 20: A Gathering on Native Self-Determination and Human Rights, a two-day symposium at the Sandra Day O&#8217…

Professor Jim Ellis and State Rep. Gail Chasey (`08) made presentations at the Fourth World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva, Switzerland, in late February.

Ellis was a member of a roundt…

Professor Nathalie Martin helped prepare legislation recently signed into law by Gov. Bill Richardson that provides greater protection to residents of continuing-care communities in the state.

The Se…

Six law students from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico recently spent a week in Albuquerque, where they attended classes and met with students at the UNM School of Law, visited various courts a…

An invitation to speak at an event is always an honor, but your invitation was special. As you know, most of my professional life has been at this law school, and I could not have been more pleased th…

Professor Alfred Mathewson was the recipient of a Presidential Luminaria Award, a new university honor recognizing diversity efforts of faculty, staff and students across the campus of the University…

Dean Kevin Washburn and Gov. Bill Richardson have announced a new law school course designed to strengthen the state’…

Professor Margaret Montoya was the lead scholar of a comprehensive American Bar Association initiative that analyzed a broad set of information aimed at advancing racial/ethnic, gender, disability an…

UNM Law Professor Barbara Bergman, associate dean for academic affairs, recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Advocacy from Stetson University College of Law. Stetson&#8217…

The University of New Mexico School of Law’s Clin…

A paper presented by Professor Christine Zuni Cruz at the 2003 National Native Title Conference in Australia has been included as a chapter in the book, Dialogue About Land Justice: Papers from the N…

Professor Emeritus Peter Winograd has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, the national voice of the legal profession. On the board, he will help oversee administ…

Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author, joined Professor Sherri Burr and co-host Sheila Jones in the taping of Arts Talk, a local-cable television show produced by Burr and students in her…

Eleventh-grade students from South Valley Academy recently spent a morning at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where they learned what it was like to be a law student. To prepare for their…

Professor Denise Fort presented a paper titled, "The U.S. Failure to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions", at the Second Global Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy in mid-September at Y…

The pending expiration of the "Bush tax holiday" was discussed in a recent op-ed by UNM Law Professor Sergio Pareja. In the Albuquerque Journal article, Pareja argued for allowing some or all of Bush…

Dean Kevin Washburn participated in a national symposium to discuss the Tribal Law and Order Act, which expands significantly the powers of tribal courts to combat crime on reservations. Washburn pl…

UNM Law Professor Nathalie Martin will participate in a panel discussion following an advance screening of the film, Almighty Debt – A Black in America, to be shown from 2-4 p.m. Oct. 13 in Afr…

UNM Law Professors Alfred Mathewson and Sherri Burr have contributed chapters to a new book that explores sports law. The book, Reversing Field: Examing Commercialization, Labor, Gender, and Race in …

The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of University of New Mexico Law Professor Gloria Valencia-Weber to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LCS). President Barack Obama…

Vanessa Ray-Hodge, counselor to the solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior, presented the keynote address at the 17th Annual Indian People/Indian Law Academic Convocation and Gathering of C…

Professor Gloria Valencia-Weber delivered the keynote presentation during a 35-year anniversary celebration of the Psychology Diversified Students Program at Oklahoma State University, a program she …

Ten years after its humble beginnings as a section inside the Natural Resources Journal, in 1970 the New Mexico Law Review came into its own and began publishing as a stand-alone legal journal. With t…

Dean Kevin Washburn and Professor Emerita Ruth Kovnatshared stories from 60 for 60: Shaping Law in New Mexico Since 1950 as special guests of “Eye on New Mexico”, a morning news show broa…