Schools and Colleges

As the state’s flagship university, The University of New Mexico takes pride in being a “community of unique perspectives embracing divergence, letting the very things that divide us become the things that connect us to each other. What makes us...

Life after law school has been anything but sedentary and sedate for Professor Emerita Sherri Burr. Burr officially retired from teaching three years ago after a distinguished career that spanned 30 years, a noteworthy span that saw her become the first...

The challenge marginalized groups face is that many microaggressions are systemic. This means they are embedded in policies, programs and practices at the federal, state and local level. To combat microaggressions means that everyone has to be...

When people think of racism, there’s this idea that it is explicit in nature. However, time has shown that this is not the case and racism can be expressed implicitly or not as outwardly as media would like people to perceive. Many times, when people...

University of New Mexico School of Law’s Lora Morgan Church (Navajo) was selected recently for the 2020 Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellowship through a partnership between the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) and Equal Justice Works, which work...

Alumni from The University of New Mexico comprise nearly half of the honorees for the prestigious ‘2020 40 Under Forty’ list announced recently by Albuquerque Business First (ABF). Overall, 18 UNM alumni, including seven from the Anderson School of...

University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Clifford Villa and UNM SOL Professor Emeritus Eileen Gauna are adding to growing influence of the School of Law’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program (NREL) with the release of the third...

Two University of New Mexico students who were missing the fun of March Madness when COVID-19 shut down the college basketball season this year decided to change up their brackets and support local businesses. The couple created a March Madness type...

The University of New Mexico School of Law made a significant move up the annual US News and World Report national rankings in Environmental Law, coming in at No. 33 (tied with three other law schools at that rank, including the University of Arizona)....

The University of New Mexico’s Schools of Law and Medicine host Law & Medicine Day on Friday, March 6 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Domenici NW 3740 on UNM’s North Campus. The Law Medicine Day will bring together small groups of law and medical students, as...