Schools and Colleges

Most students come to law school to get a full time job as a lawyer. Eighty percent of the University of New Mexico School of Law Class of 2014 are employed...

The New York Times calls law journals, “the lackluster reviews that lawyers love to hate.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has criticized them for being boring and theoretical. The UNM School of Law student-edited New Mexico Law Review (NMLR) has...

After a rigorous internal search, University of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah announced today the appointment of co-deans at the UNM School of Law. Alfred Mathewson and Sergio Pareja, both professors at the UNM School of Law, begin as co-deans Aug. 1, 2015.

The University of New Mexico School of Law moved to No. 18 nationwide in the Top 50 Law Schools ranking by Above the Law, up four places from last year.

The University of New Mexico School of Law student-edited general legal journal New Mexico Law Review (NMLR) has published a special issue that analyses contemporary legal issues related to the storyline of “Breaking Bad.”

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President Chaouki Abdallah announced that UNM School of Law Dean David Herring will step down effective July 1, 2015.  

Professor Gordon Rahn charges his students in the Innocence and Justice Seminar to the same mission: find new evidence.

Conroy Chino, a Native American political and strategic consultant, will interview Hilary Tompkins, Solicitor of the Department of Interior, on Monday, April 6, with from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in Room 2402 at the UNM School of Law, 1117 Stanford N.E.,...

The Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition is very tough. The largest competition of its kind nationwide regularly attracts more than 200 competitors and 200 attorneys who serve as judges for three days of oral arguments...

"Max Evans & Friends,” an episode of Arts Talk, a local-cable television show produced by UNM Professor of Law Sherri Burr and students in her Intellectual Property and Art Law classes, received first place in the category of Talk Show, Television from the New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) New Mexico Communications Contest 2015.