The winter issue of preLaw magazine lists the UNM School of Law number one for Public Defenders/Prosecutors.

Curriculum at the UNM Law School features over 100 classes beneficial to a pu…

Hundreds of UNM Law School faculty, alumni, friends, students and staff participated in a New Mexican Holiday Fiesta at the law school on Wednesday, December 9.

The law school’s th…

Two members of the UNM Law School community were among the four recipients of the UNM Alumni Association 2016 Winter Awards. Henry Rivera (’73) received the James F. Zimmerman Awar…

Frank Cardoza and Scott Woody defeated 65 teams nationwide, winning best overall and best written submissi…

Third year UNM Law School student April Wil…

and former UNM Law School Dean of Students have been selected to receive the 2016 Justice Mary Walters Award from the UNM Women’s Law Caucus on W…

The Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program at the UNM Law School received an “A” rating in the winter issue of preLaw magazine.

“The UNM Law School has a stron…

An article written by Alfred Dennis Mathewson, Dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, is listed as one of the ten most cited articles in the 25-year history of the Marquette…

On Feb 18-20, Professor Emerita Margaret Montoya spoke at the Harvard Latino Law Conference and did a teach-in in Belinda Hall for the #Reclaim HLS (Harvard Law School) students.  

A recent study co-authored by UNM School of Law Associate Professor Yael Zakai Cannon shows the relationship between “adverse c…

Diverse perspectives are needed in the legal profession, regardless of one’s backgro…

The UNM Law School jumped eleven spots to the ranking of 60th nationwide in US News & World Report's 2017 Best Law Schools.

The law school’s jump is higher than any o…

On August 25, 2016, the National Park Servi…

Our talented and experienced faculty are regularly called upon to share their practical expertise. Often, their unique and important perspectives result from a deep commitment to im…

The Mexican American Law Student Association (MALSA) will present the Honorable Justice Cruz Reynoso of the California Supreme Court (retired) with the 2016 Fi…

Two facult…

Professor Sherri Burr and students in her Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law classes filmed Season 19 – the final season – of Arts Talk with Sherri Burr, a loca…

Last fall, Krista Garcia (’16) worked wit…

The New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts reports that Justice Charles W. Daniels was sworn as Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court for a …

Bianca Smoker (’16) not only has graduation from law school on her mind, but a prestigious new position with the Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honors Program as we…

On April 13, 2016, Professor Cliff Villa gave a presentation at Harvard Law School on the factual circumstances and potential legal remedies for addressing the health consequences of lea…

Professor Carol Suzuki has been appointed the Chair of the Planning Committee for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) 2017 Conference on Clinical Legal Education, which will b…

Former Dean and Professor Kevin K. Washburn has be…

The University of New Mexico School of Law Not-for-Profit Art Gallery will launch its All Law School Show with a reception …

Tribal judges, a sta…

Scott Woody (’17) was recently appointed the ABA Law Stude…

Keynote speaker New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil provided wise counsel to the UNM Law School Class of 2016.

At the 2016 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 14^th, Vigi…

Last week, Professor John LaVelle explained the issues surrounding an important pending Supreme Court case and an amicus brief he co-authored in an interview with Tom Trowbridge of Datel…

Professor Bar…

Just days after his commencement, Jacob Candelaria (’16), a state senator representing New Mexico’s 26^th district, is participating in a 12-day political exchange program to …

UNM Law School’s Wild Friends Program celebrated twenty-f…

UNM Law School Professor Christine Zuni Cruz has been selected as a recipient of the 2016 Derrick Bell Legacy Award.

The award honors critical race theorists, scholars, and educators com…

Students in the law school’s Southwest Indian Law Clinic (SILC) h…

In what’s likely the only class of its kind in the country, N…

In High Country News, Professor Kevin Washburn defends the Land Buy-Back Program.

The magazine had exposed “several inherent tensions in federal efforts to purchase and return land…

A 2015 article by Dean and Professor of Law Sergio Pareja was selected as one of five likely to generate the greatest interest to estate and gift tax professionals.

The list was compiled…

Two women who broke the gender barrier in the…

Reed Benson, Professor of Law and chair of the Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program, was invited to share his expertise and appear as a witness to provide testimony before Con…

On June 26, 2016, the Albuquerque Journal published an op-ed written by Professor Barbara L. Creel and Professor John P.  LaVelle on the Supreme Court's recent decision in United St…

Students in Wild Friends, an award-winning civics education program at the UNM School of Law, advocated to the New Mexico Senate on behalf of bees.

They shared the vital work that bee…

John Echohawk (’70) was honored by the Keystone Policy Center with the Spirit of Keystone award for “tirelessly working to foster respect, inclusiveness, and collaborative pr…

When asked what hashtag he would use to describe himself, Sidhu chose #TheWireFanatic.

Professor Dawinder "Dave" S. Sidhu and five UNM Law alumni are recipients of Albuquerque Business F…

Pao…

UNM School of Law Professor Kevin K. Washburn has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the LSAC Board of Trustees, ending in 2019. 

Washburn previously served on the Board o…

Forty-seven generous sponsors and 132 enthusiastic players helped the 2016 Law Scholarship Golf Classic presented by U.S. Eagle raise more money than ever before.

Held on Friday, June 3 …

A keynote by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is drawing record attendance at the New Mexico State Bar Annual Meeting, and the law school plans to connect with more alumni …

Thanks to former and returning student Gary Lee, Protocol O…

The third edition of Quick Review of International Law by Professor Sherri Burr will be published this month, in time for Fall 2016 courses.

Quick Review of International Law is a study …

In an interview broadcast throughout New Mexico this morning, Professor Barbara Creel discussed an important June 13 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court with Tom Trowbridge of Dateline Ne…

Professor Grace Allison shared her expertise in tax law with the author of the article, “Get Specific on Donor-Advised Funds, ABA Group Urges” in the August 23 issue of Bloom…

Professor Alex Ritchie has co-authored the tenth edition of "The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials," which was published this summer by Foundation Press.

"The Law of Oil and Gas" i…

When people have experienced …

The UNM Law School is proud to welcome Assistant Professor Maryam Ahranjani and Assis…

The 2016 John Field Simms, Sr. Memorial Lectureship in Law will shed light on the political, legal and economic consequences about a matter that affects us all – Britian’s v…

Every fall, UNM Law&…

Distinguished Professor Jim Ellis  has consistently worked to keep inmates with intellectual disability off death row. In 2014, he and his UNM Law team filed an amicus brief in supp…

The UNM …

Prior to joining the UNM Law School faculty this September, Professor Joshua Kastenberg had a 20-year career as a lawyer and judge in the U.S. Air Force. He was asked to comment on draft…

Professor Cliff Villa  is the expert the media seek out to explain the consequences of the Animas River spill.

Prior to teaching environmental law at the law school, Villa served…

How do expert Indian law advocates develop litigation strategy?

That’s what 3L Megan Horning learned this summer when she clerked for the Native American Rights Fund (NARF).

In her…

When he first became a law professor, Professor Kevin Washburn began writing about the problems in criminal justice in Indian country. Now he is considered the leading scholar in the fie…

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Efforts highlight students' unique opportunities in national security

Professor Barbara Creel of the UNM Southwest Indian Law Clinic, together with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Native American Justice Committee, filed an amicus brie…

The UNM Feminist Research Institute has asked Professor Jennifer Moore to share sharing insights and challenges from her current research on transitional justice at the local level in…

New:   Watch the video of the lecture.

The New Mexico Innocence a…

Three United States Supre…

Leigh Messerer (’18) received the Don G. McCormick Writing Prize for a brief she submitted in her ELA class in Spring 2016.

The case concerned the issue of whether state adoption proceeding…

With a 20-year career as a lawyer and judge in the U.S. Air Force and 400 trials serving as either a prosecutor and defense counsel or as a judge, Professor Joshua Kastenberg brings extensive pra…

The UNM Corinne Wolfe Center for Child & Family Justice invites law students and the legal community for lunch and a lively dialogue about how to meaningfully, respectfully and authen…

Known for her expertise in constitutional law, Professor Maryam Ahranjani was recently interviewed for a story on the Santa Fe Reporter’s law suit again Governor Susana Martinez…

On Friday, September 23, Professors Mary Leto Pareja and Grac…

The Board of Directors for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the largest funder of civil legal aid for low income people in the U.S., will be in New Mexico October 15 - 18. LSC is…

Molly Schmidt-Nowara (’01), an Albuquerque attorney and adjunct professor at the …

Rodina Cave Parnall is coming full circle by joining the American Indian Law Center, Inc. (AILC) as Assistant Director of the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians & Alaska Na…