School of Law

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.

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.