School of Law

Reed Benson, Weihofen Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, has been named Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Water and the Environment at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.  

Three faculty members at the University of New Mexico School of Law have received promotions including: Camille Carey to professor, and Yael Zakai Cannon and Alex Ritchie, to associate professors. Carey and Cannon teach in the law school’s pioneering, ...

University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Sherri Burr has received a prestigious one-month fellowship from the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS) for her forthcoming book...

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.