Schools and Colleges

Commissioner Norman Bay of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission returned to the UNM School of Law recently to present,  “An Overview of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Energy Markets Today.” Bay introduced the talk with a clip from...

Jess Bravin, Supreme Court correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, delivers, “The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay” on Thursday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m at the University of New Mexico School of Law, located at 1117 Stanford NE.

In the United States today, 65 million people – 21 percent of the population—are eligible for legal aid, according to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the single largest funder of civil legal services in the country.

University of New Mexico Professor of Law Barbara Creel, Jemez Pueblo, has been appointed by the United States Sentencing Commission as a voting member to its Tribal Issues Advisory Group (TIAG). The goal and purpose of the group is to study the ...

The UNM Faculty Senate meets on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Scholes Hall Roberts room. The senate votes on a variety of academic program revisions, as well as a vote to designate the Chicana and Chicano Studies program as a...

DNA analysis can help convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent When the criminal justice system fails to function as it should. Since its reorganization in 2010, the Innocence and Justice Program (IJP) at the University of New Mexico School of Law has investigated claims of innocence and provided courses in criminal investigation to

John Newell, Esq., has recently been named Director of the Rozier E. Sanchez Judicial Education Center of New Mexico (JEC), which provides education and training to the judges, administrators and other staff of the New Mexico judicial branch. The JEC...

UNM School of Law Professor Alex Ritchie studies and seeks solutions to complex oil and gas legal issues, not only in the classroom, but also in his scholarship. His reasoned analysis on why New Mexico state law preempts a complete ban by a local...

The award winning film, "The House I Live In," which examines racial injustice perpetuated by United States policies, in particular the war on drugs, can be seen free on Monday, Feb. 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Domenici Auditorium, adjacent to the medical/legal bookstore, on the UNM north campus. Light refreshments will be served.

Kevin K. Washburn, assistant secretary - Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, and former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, will be honored with the ABA’s prestigious Spirit of Excellence Award at the ABA Midyear Meeting on...