All students, staff, faculty, and alums are invited to participate in the book discussions listed below. You are welcome to participate in any or all of the discussions – no need to commit to a…

Sam Taub, a 2L student at UNM SOL, is almost ready to unveil an invaluable dataset.  Sam’s work exemplifies how we can use our experience to impact our community in profound ways.  He…

Today, 157 Law School Deans from schools across the country published a statement addressing the 2020 election and the events that took place in the United States Capitol last week. The statement mark…

As we enter another semester online, we can look forward to the insight Professor Jennifer Laws will provide as the newly instated Remote Teaching Fellow for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)…

Across the country, lawyers, organizers, and activists are banding together to achieve criminal justice reform. New Mexico is no exception. Throughout the state, community leaders and non-profit orga…

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national, was detained for 14 years at Guantánamo Bay. He was never charged with a crime, although the U…

The Pueblo of Laguna and Pueblo of Jemez filed a federal lawsuit on Friday, March 26 to protect clean water in New Mexico. The lawsuit, filed against the U.S. Environm…

Juvenile detention can gravely impact a child’s life. According to national studies, approximately 70% of previously incarcerated youth experience recidivism. Many of these youths live with ser…

On March 31, 2021, New Mexico Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham (Class of 1987), officially signed into law House Bill 183, which eliminates all administrative fines and fees for juveniles from the Ne…

Professor Emerita Sherri Burr was recently awarded the New Mexico Press Women’s 2021 Communicator of Achievement Award, the organization’s highest honor. The award recognizes exceptional …

On April 7, 2021, the UNM School of Law welcomed two national leaders in environmental justice for a discussion of cumulative impacts of pollution on local communities. Richa…

On April 30, 2021, UNM Law students Caroline Andrews and Chelsey Pelzman participated in the Georgetown Iron Tech Lawyer Invitational where they showcased student-built technology to improve access t…

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation has awarded schol…

Lora Morgan Church listed the factors that make her a non-traditional student: She joked that she got her first degree “five hundred years ago,” then received her MBA and an MS in Health …

UNM’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program has awarded stipends to three students who will work this summer in otherwise-unpaid positions for nonprofit organizations or government ag…

Those who worked alongside him and shared in his dedication and passion for law say there is no way to adequately express the immeasurable impact Dean Fred Hart had on the University of New Mexico an…

On July 16, 2021, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (the “Foundation”) awarded Professor Reed Benson the Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award, making Benson the first recipient of the aw…

The UNM School of Law’s Border Justice Initiative recently marked its 300^th Continuing Legal Education (CLE) participant. Launched in 2019, the Border Justice Initiative’s CLE program was …

Law students with The University of New Mexico Law Clinic’s Expungement Project are hosting a hotline, inspired by National Expungement Works' Week of Action and Awareness, aimed to help indivi…

Friday, October 15th and Saturday, October 16th, 2021, at the Cañon de Carnué Land Grant Hall. 

Join experts in the field of land grant and acequia law to cover a variety of issues uni…

By Katelyn Dickensheets, UNMSOL ‘23

On Friday, November 5th, the UNM School of Law led a group of UNM faculty and students on a visit to the Laguna Pueblo, some 40 miles west of Albuquerque, to …

The NREL Committee and Environmental Law Society co-sponsored Mapping Inequality: Reckoning with Historic Redlining and Its Legacy, a hybrid event that was held at the School of Law and over Zoom on …

The University of New Mexico School of Law and The Health Sciences Center Medical Legal Alliance and Office of Interprofessional Education presents The Virtual Third Annual Values, Ethics, and Shared…

Between balancing law school and work, Athena Shapiro (’22) chose to take on one more challenge – Ironman tr…

The Child & Family Justice Clinic offered a free legal clinic on November 11, 2021 at the Transgender Resource Center (TGRC) to assist with name change cases. Clinic Professor Sarah Steadman and five…

The Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition returned to the Law School on November 12, 2021 after being cancelled last year due to the pandemic. Students from Artrisco Heritage, West Mesa,…

Brown University, Tougaloo College and the University of New Mexico School of Law partnered in June to host The Conversation, a three-week summer research dialogue among rising second-, third- and fo…