Schools and Colleges

The UNM School of Law recently led a group of 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...

The Continuing Legal Education Program is hosting its next public discussion, “Environmental Justice and Cumulative Impacts: Applying the New Jersey Experience to New Mexico Challenges.” The free event will be held Wednesday, Nov. 3 from 5:30 to 7:30...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway has announced the names of four finalists for the dean’s position at the School of Law. The finalists include:  Jason Czarnezki – the Gilbert and Sarah...

Law students with The University of New Mexico’s Expungement Law Clinic 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...

Join experts in the field of land grant and acequia law for an upcoming Continuing Legal Education Workshop, "Land Grants, Acequias and the Law." The two-day event will begin Friday, Oct. 15 at the Cañón de Carnué Land Grant Hall. The workshop is geared...

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (the Foundation) has awarded UNM Professor Reed Benson the Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award, making Benson the first recipient of the award at UNM.  “I am very honored to receive this award, and grateful for all...

Those who worked alongside him and shared in his dedication and passion of law say there is no way to adequately express the immeasurable impact Dean Fred Hart had on the University of New Mexico and the greater community as a whole. “Fred was a leader...

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 MPA and an MS in Health Education. She had a career and she and her husband Casey have five...

Every year, U.S. News and World Report releases rankings for select university and college programs across the country. Each year it focuses on different types of programs, sometimes ranking sciences and other times humanities, etc. Below are those...

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. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the U.S. District Court...