Each Fall a group of law students teach high school students from underserved schools about their Constitutional rights and how to interact with law enforcement. This week the program will be featured in a national streaming special about racial healing...
Gloria Valencia-Weber, a professor emerita, regents professor, and Henry Weihofen Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, received the prestigious Pierce Hickerson Award from the National Legal Aid and Defenders...
The University of New Mexico’s Level Two Grand Challenge team Just Transition to Green Energy convened UNM law school professors and New Mexico politicians recenty to provide a forum to discuss challenges and policies for moving toward a low-carbon...
Samantha Wauls, a University of New Mexico School of Law alumna (‘22) will spend the second half of her year-long entertainment law and policy fellowship at the Motion Picture Association and Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program (MPA-EICOP)...
Samantha Wauls, a University of New Mexico School of Law alumna (‘22), was selected for the Motion Picture Association and Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program's Entertainment Law and Policy Fellowship.
Wauls, a...
It may be legal, but it’s not fair. That’s the state of a current wave of water problems in the west.
UNM Utton Center Writer-In-Residence and Water Policy and Law Expert John Fleck says it’s as simple as that when it comes to California and the...
The highly anticipated State Water Task Force Report is flowing towards the public. After months in the making, dozens of sets of eyes, and waves of approvals, the report is on display.
Its goal is to highlight the biggest issues plaguing the...
University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) annually compiles a Year-in-Review highlighting both its general and research news and feature stories across campus during the course of the calendar year. Below is a select list based on UCAM's Newsroom...
In a first of its kind event, Steve A. Darden (Diné/Navajo and Cheyenne) will share his research on Diné traditional concepts around death, the afterlife, and burials in a presentation called, “Diné/Navajo Stories about Death, the Afterlife, Grief...
It’s easy to say something is yours if it has your name on it, or you bought it, or received it as a gift. Yet, it’s not always such a clear cut picture of belonging when it’s something on your property. It’s even less obvious when it’s something with an...