From waiting tables in Montana to dean of UNM Law School Read More about From waiting tables in Montana to dean of UNM Law School

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 Clinic students — Huong Nguyen, Douglas Alsup, Billy Traubado, Bree Barnett and Annie Swift — aided approximately 25 trans and nonbinary individuals. Read More about Child & Family Justice Clinic Partnered With TGRC To Offer Free Name Change Clinic

The Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition Returns Read More about The Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition Returns

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 fourth-year undergraduates around issues of race, justice and the law as they have affected “involuntary Americans” (e.g., Indigenous peoples here before Columbus, Black people brought here enslaved, and Mexicans here before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and immigrants brought here as children). Read More about UNM School of Law Emeriti Facilitate The Conversation

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 Thursday, October 21, 2021. Read More about The NREL Committee and Environmental Law Society co-sponsored Event

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 learn about the history of uranium mining and the disproportionate impacts of uranium contamination upon indigenous communities in the Southwest. Read More about UNM School of Law leads "Environmental Justice Bus Tour" to Pueblo of Laguna

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 Decision-Making Conference. Read More about The Virtual Third Annual Values, Ethics, and Shared Decision-Making Conference

Between balancing law school and work, Athena Shapiro (’22) chose to take on one more challenge – Ironman training. Most recently, Shapiro competed in the 2021 Ironman 70.3 World Championship race, a half Ironman in St. George, Utah consisting of a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride, and 13.1-mile run. Read More about UNM Law Student Athena Shapiro Competes in Half Ironman

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 individuals across the state gain employment, receive promotions, qualify for loans and much move by cleaning up their records. Read More about Law Clinic Students Host Expungement Hotline

Join experts in the field of land grant and acequia law to cover a variety of issues unique to these communities. This two-day event geared towards judges, attorneys, and students and is open to members of the public. All are welcome to attend one day or both days of the event; discounted pricing is offered for two-day attendance. This two-day program has been approved by MCLE for 7.5 General and 2.0 Ethics/Professionalism credits. Read More about Utton Center hosts Continuing Legal Education Workshop "Land Grants, Acequias and the Law"