School of Law

Education helped save his life. Steven Trujeque, the father of two, was headed toward a future of incarceration and, possibly, a dance with death. “At that point in time, in my life, I was looking for anything. I kept telling myself I need to find a way...

A professor at The University of New Mexico School of Law has become a very accomplished Yogi – someone who studies and is proficient in yoga. Nathalie Martin, who has been a part of the UNM law faculty since 1998, was featured in a magazine put...

University of New Mexico School of Law Regents Professor Christine Zuni Cruz was awarded the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law and Governance at McGill University. Cruz’s research project, “Toward an Understanding of Indigenous Legal...

Wild Friends, an award-winning conservation and civics program through the University of New Mexico School of Law, received a $50,000 grant from XTO Energy. This grant expands the Wild Friends program to southeast New Mexico and enables all eighth-grade...

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...