New Mexico’s law school has drawn a line in the sand and d…

The UNM School of Law kicked off its 2020 Social Justice Lunchbox Series under the Child…

Following last week’s law student-led advocacy to halt evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court of New Mexico issued a temporary moratorium on evicti…

(UPDATE: The day after this article was published, the New Mexico Supreme Court “ordered a temporary moratorium on evictions for inability to pay rent during the COVID-19 public health emergency…

UNM’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program (NREL) has awarded stipends to three students who will work this summer in otherwise-unpai…

When New Mexico Governor and UNM Law alumna Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a public health emergency in the state due to the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic on March 12, the University of New Mexico w…

Saturday May 9 was a particularly singular day for the UNM School of Law, which observed a virtual Celebration of the Class of 2020. The first of its kind, the festivity was hosted online on the La…

Updated December 8, 2020: UNM School of Law Professor Cliff Villa is adding to the growing influence of the law school’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law (NREL) program with the …

The UNM School of Law’s Border Justice Initiative has selected Annie Swift and Jorge Rodriguez as the inaugural externs for the summer 2020 program.

Photograph courtesy of Jorge Rodriguez

UNM Law School alumnae Lily Hofstra and Denali Wilson were recently awarded the Corinne Wolfe Fellowship for Transformative Advocacy, through the UNM School of Law’s Child & Family Justice In…

In May, the UNM Sc…

UNM Law School alumna Denali …

Rachel Grabenstein of the UNM School of Law Class of 2022 was recently awarded a scholarship by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. The Foundation awards these scholarships through a competi…

Life after law school has been anything but sedentary and sedate for Professor Emerita Sherri Burr.

Burr officially re…

In May, UNM School of Law’s Lora Morgan Church (Navajo), a rising 3L law student, was selected for the 2020 Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellowship through a partnership between the Legal Services …

The UNM School of Law and the Jacqueline Marie Leaffer Foundation have teamed up to host the Border Justice Initiative’s Immigration CLE Series this summer. The series, which includes six sessi…

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Professor Brenda Pereda, MD of the UNM School of Medicine and Professor Veronica Gonzales-Zamora of the UNM School of Law&…

Two current UNM School of Law professors and one professor emerita have been selected to serve …

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation announced the appointment of UNM alumnus Stuart Butzier (Class of 1989) as the President of the foundation in late July. Butzier will serve a one-year term…

UNM School of Law Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor Nathalie Martin's current research focuses on what she calls "the credit gap" -- the considerable differences in credit products…

The Wild Friends program at the UNM School of Law was one of 10 awardees of the Paul Ré Peace Prize in August.

The Peace Prize is awarded every ot…

In 2016 a project called The UNM Black Alumni Chapter Oral History Project commemorated the efforts of a group of Black students who advocated for civil rights in the 1960s and 70s.

The project,…

Jacques Chouinard, who recently began his third year at the UNM School of Law, was awarded the Helen S. Carter Prize for Outstanding Student Papers at the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

Titled "Sc…

New Mexico and Texas have been fighting over water since long before 1974. But that was the year that Texas sued New Mexico in the U.S. Supreme Court over water usage from the Pecos River, leading …

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UNM School of Law Professor Barbara Creel (Jemez Pueblo) was awarded the Federal Bar Association's Honorable Sarah T. Hughes Civil Rights Award at the beginning of September. She is just the third Na…

The UNM School of Law has been deeply affected by the loss of alumni and students to suicide in recent years. With that in mind, UNM Law has been taking steps to provide stude…

When Jessica Arreola and Kateri West sought to help fellow parents in Law School receive support for childcare, they had no idea they would be a part of changing a policy that would help thousands of…

University of New Mexico School of Law Regents Professor Christine Zuni Cruz was awarded the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law and Governance at McGill University.

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UNMSOL Professor Gabriel Pacyniak had one of his research assistants this past summer, 3L Christopher Hall, digging into utility ratemaking in New Mexico, with a particular focus on utility rates f…

Wild Friends, an award-winning conservation and civics program through the University of New Mexico School of Law, received a $50,000 grant from XTO Energy.

This grant expands the Wild Friends&#1…

In a historic move, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden selected New Mexico Congresswoman, and UNM alumna, Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary.

Haaland isn’t a …

A professor at The University of New Mexico School of Law has become a very accomplished Yogi – someone who studies and is proficient in yoga. Nathalie Martin, who has been a part of the U…

On Monday, December 14, UNM law professor Cliff Villa announced the availability of a new open-access website:  www.environmentaljusticebook.org, created to promote teaching and continual learni…

This fall, third-year law student Ambrose Kupfer participated in the University of New Mexico School of Law’s Semester in D.C. Program virtually. The Program, first started in 2012, allows six …