This collection highlights the books and book chapters of UNM Law faculty. Due to copyright, full-text downloads are not available in most cases. If you'd like to review the full-text, please contact your local library. The books are sorted by year, with the most recent publications listed first. Email your questions about this collection to libref [at] law.unm.edu.
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Implications of the Constitutional Right of Privacy for the Control of Drugs: An Introduction
Robert L. Schwartz
The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program on Science, Technology, and Human Values, * The Hastings Center was able to sponsor such dialog as part of a major research into the ethics of drug use that spanned two years. We assembled a Research Group from leaders in the scientific, medical, legal, and policy com munities, leavened with experts in applied ethics, and brought them together several times a year to discuss the moral, legal and social issues posed by nontherapeutic drug use. At times we also called on other experts when we needed certain issues clarified. We did not try to reach a consensus, yet several broad areas of agreement emerged: That our society's response to nontherapeutic drug use has been irrational and inconsistent; that our attempts at control have been clumsy and ill-informed; that many complex moral values are entwined in the debate and cannot be reduced to a simple conflict between individual liberty and state paternalism. Of course each paper should be read as the statement of that particular author or authors. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily represent the views of The Hastings Center, the National Science Foundation, or the National En dowment for the Humanities.
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Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800 - 1933
G. Emlen Hall
Land grant disputes from the nineteenth century have divided and embittered some people for most of the twentieth century. In an attempt to bring final resolution to lingering controversies in New Mexico and throughout the West, in 2000 the U.S. Congress pledged to review disputed claims in the next few years.
The Pecos Grant is illustrative of legal and administrative wrangling over land grants. To ensure that a U.S. Senate Committee understood the complexity of the Pecos Grant, New Mexico lawyer and historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell told them in 1923: "There are so many things in connection with this entire business that twenty King Solomons cannot unravel the knot." Yet in this book Hall does sort through the conflicting claims in the over one hundred years of Spanish, Mexican, and American legal maneuvers, legislative stalemates, and private sales involving this 18,000 acre square of land.
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Marx and Ethics Today
Elizabeth Rapaport
hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience. And this cannot be done indeed, it is difficult to even make sense of an attempt to do it-without first settling our accounts with Darwin, Marx, and Freud. The legacy of these three thinkers continues to haunt us in other ways as well. Whatever their substantive philosophical differences in other respects, Darwin, Marx, and Freud shared a common, overriding intellectual orientation: they taught us to see human things in historical, developmental terms. Phil osophically, questions of being were displaced in their works by questions of becoming. Methodologically, genesis replaced teleological and essentialist considerations in the explanatory logic of their theories. Darwin, Marx, and Freud were, above all, theorists of conflict, dynamism, and change. They em phasized the fragility of order, and their abiding concern was always to discover and to explicate the myriad ways in which order grows out of disorder. For these reasons their theories constantly confront and challenge the cardinal tenet of our modern secular faith: the notion of progress. To be sure, their emphasis on conflict and the flux of change within the flow of time was not unprecedented; its origins in Western thought can be traced back at least as far as Heraclitus.
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Model Statute: An Act to Guarantee the Right of Developmentally Disabled Persons to Receive Appropriate Services and to Establish Consent Procedures to Allow the Provision of those Services
James W. Ellis
Developmental Disabilities State Legislative Project of the American Bar Association's Commission on the Mentally Disabled.
Table of Contents
- Personal and Civil Rights
- Marriage, Annulment and Divorce
- Relinquishment and Termination of Parental Rights.- Testamentary Capacity
- Sterilization
- Abortion
- Emergency Medical Care and Treatment for Infants
- Voting Rights
- Driver Licensing
- Prohibiting Discrimination
- Prohibiting Discrimination
- Eliminating Environmental Barriers
- Zoning for Community Homes
- Education of Exceptional Persons
- Right to Services
- Guardianship and Conservatorship
- Criminal and Juvenile Justice
- Advocacy.
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Liberia
Ted Parnall
Book Summary:
This massive work represents the labour of hundreds of lawyers and scholars throughout the world. It is undoubtedly the most extensive and thorough examination of comparative law on the international level ever published. It incorporates not only detailed descriptions of the legal systems of more than 150 countries but, above all, thoroughly documented comparative analyses of the main issues in civil and commercial law and related issues world-wide. Consisting of 17 volumes in total, each volume is divided into 6-20 chapters written by relevant specialists. Rather than delaying publication until the volume is complete, every chapter is published on completion in paperback form. Once a year several of these chapters, not necessarily of the same volume, are sent to subscribers in single instalment. As soon as all the chapters in a given volume are ready, they are indexed, updated where necessary and sent to subscribers in high-quality hardback form.
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The Least Restrictive Alternative: Principles And Practices
James W. Ellis and H Rutherford Turnbull
No abstract available.
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Commitment Proceedings for Mentally Ill and Mentally Retarded Children
James W. Ellis
No abstract available.
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Patients' Rights in Program Evaluation
James W. Ellis
Table of Contents:
The need, history, definition, and limits of program evaluation / Robert D. Coursey
Basic questions and tasks / Robert D. Coursey
The dimensions of an evaluation system for community mental health centers / Roger Mitchell
An overview of techniques and models of program evaluation / Robert D. Coursey
Needs assessment / Roger Bell
Progarm evaluation, systems theory and output value analysis / Joseph Halpern
A management by objectives approach to program evaluation / Willaim Porter
Will goal attainment scaling solve the problems of program evaluation in the mental health field? / Robert Sherman
The automated tri-informant goal-oriented note / Nancy Wilson
The Denver Community Mental Health Questionnare / James Ciarlo
Issues in evaluating children's services / James Walker
The review and evaluation of consultation activities in a community mental health center / Solomon Cytrynbaum
Evaluation of community action programs / Michael Brophy
Evaluation of educational and training programs / Irwin L. Goldstein
Approaching program evaluation / Marguerite McIntyre
Starting an internal evaluation program / Wagner Zinober
Conducting a program evaluation / Stanley Murrell
Judging program evaluations / Stanley Murrell
The uses and abuses of outside evaluator / Gerald A. Specter
Staff participation in program evaluation / Robert D. Coursey
Patient rights in program evaluation / James W. Ellis --
Evaluation by citizens / Carol I. Weiss
Resources to aid mental health program evaluation / Charles Windle
An annotated bibliography of readings in program evaluation / Glen Strobel. -
(DELETE) The New Mexico Legal Rights Demonstration Land Grant Project: An analysis of the Land Title Problems in the Santo Domingo de Cundiyo Land Grant
G. Emlen Hall, Charles T. DuMars, Michael J. Rock, and Luella Rubio
No description available
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Major Research Efforts of the Law School Admission Council
Frederick M. Hart and Franklin R. Evans
Research conducted by the Law School Admission Council since the development of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) in 1948 is described. An overview of the research topics is provided, and relevant published reports are cited in 61 footnotes. The following topics of study are discussed: (1) use and validity of traditional predictors of law school success--LSAT and undergraduate grade point average (UGPA); (2) prediction of LSAT scores and grades for applicant subgroups--including blacks, whites, Chicanos, females, culturally deprived, males, college majors, and foreign candidates; (3) other predictors, including LSAT tests of writing ability and of general background, Myers-Briggs type indicators, interviews, and faculty recommendations; (4) undergraduate grades; (5) law school grades, which serve as the criteria against which the effectiveness of predictors are measured; (6) development of new test item types; and (7) prediction of success in the legal profession. (GDC)
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Cases and Materials on Contracts
Robert Desiderio and Frederick M. Hart
Should a person always keep his word? For example, If you are employed and have sufficient money to meet the needs of your family, you may welI sign a pledge to make a charitable contribution each month to the United Fund or to some specific charity. If you lose your Job, or incur unexpected expenses, fulfillment of your promise might deprive your family of food, clothing, or other necessities. Or, look at another situation: a father promises to take his children to the circus. Just before they are to depart, he receives a call from his employer asking him to come to the office to complete some work. Or again, a husband promises to give his wife a certain allowance each week to run the household. Is he bound to continue If he believes that she Is not using the money wisely?
The law of contracts asks the same basic question with a different twist. The Issue Is not necessarily which promises should be kept, but rather which promise should society enforce and how should society enforce them. But why is society concerned with whether people keep their promise? Is it because people ought to keep promises: It being a misuse of the communication abilities of humans to promise something and then not perform? Is It for economic reasons: promises are necessary for the business world to function smoothly? ls It to prevent disorder In the community; to give people a method of righting a "wrong" other than by beating the promise breaker over the head with a club?
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Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest
Frederick M. Hart, William F. Willier, and Robert J. Desiderio
No abstract available.
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Forms and Procedures Under the Uniform Commercial Code
Frederick M. Hart and William F. Willier
Complete guidance and procedural analysis regarding both the mechanics of completing UCC related forms and the substantive law connected with those forms. It is an invaluable resource for the practitioner, containing forms consistent with the requirements and terminology of the Code, as well as commentary and primary source materials. Basic forms are featured by Article, and are varied by alternative and optional clauses. Commentary is structured around the forms, and explains when, how and why the form should be used as well as the substantive results of their use.
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Equipment Leasing
Robert J. Desiderio
Complete guidance and procedural analysis regarding both the mechanics of completing UCC related forms and the substantive law connected with those forms. It is an invaluable resource for the practitioner, containing forms consistent with the requirements and terminology of the Code, as well as commentary and primary source materials. Basic forms are featured by Article, and are varied by alternative and optional clauses. Commentary is structured around the forms, and explains when, how and why the form should be used as well as the substantive results of their use.
