The University of New Mexico School of Law faculty bring a diversity of backgrounds, professional interests and outlooks to legal education. This collection showcases the range of scholarship by current and emeritus faculty, including law journals, bar journals, briefs, testimony, op-eds, presentations, blog posts or blawgs, and interviews. Email your questions about this collection to libref [at] law.unm.edu.
Submissions from 2022
Sprinting a Marathon: Next Steps for Gender Equity in Criminal Law Employment, Maryam Ahranjani
Is the Court of Indian Offenses of Ute Mountain Ute Agency a Federal Agency for Purposes of the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause?, Barbara L. Creel
Creating Lightbulb Moments: Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Family Law Classrooms Through Court Observations, Sonia Gipson Rankin
Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions, Vinay Harpalani
Boston Globe interviews Vinay Harpalani: Supreme Court agrees to hear Harvard affirmative action case, could cause ‘huge ripple effect’ in college admissions, Vinay Harpalani, Laura Krantz, and Deirdre Fernandes
Global News Toronto interviews Joshua Kastenberg: U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine mandate, Joshua Kastenberg and Miranda Anthistle
KOB interviews Joshua Kastenberg: Business leaders react to Supreme Court blocking vaccine mandate, Joshua E. Kastenberg and Chase Golightly
Regulating Natural Gas Venting and Flaring as Waste: A Review of the New Mexico Approach, Joseph A. Schremmer
Waste and the Governance of Private and Public Property, Joseph A. Schremmer and Tara K. Righetti
Adapting To a 4°C World, Clifford Villa
No “Box to be Checked”: Environmental Justice in Modern Legal Practice, Clifford J. Villa
Submissions from 2021
Pulling Back the Curtain: A Follow-Up Report from the ABA Criminal Justice Section Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, Maryam Ahranjani
School "Safety" Measures Jump Constitutional Guardrails, Maryam Ahranjani
The Role of Lawyers in Bridging the Gap between the Robust Federal Rights to Education and Relatively Low Education Outcomes in Guatemala, Maryam Ahranjani
Why Are Women Lawyers Underrepresented in Criminal Justice?, Maryam Ahranjani
Santa Fe Reporter interviews Maryam Ahranjani: Change of Venue, District Court judge to consider defense’s argument that a fair trial in the slaying of basketball star is impossible in Santa Fe, Maryam Ahranjani and Katherine Lewin
KRWG interviews Maryam Ahranjani, Doña Ana County Mandatory Vaccination Policy Contested, Maryam Ahranjani and Madison Staten
Brief for American Indian Law Scholars as Amicus Curiae, Stephen C., et al v. Bureau of Indian Education, et al.,, Barbara L. Creel, Tierra N. Marks, and Randolph H. Barnhouse
When Imitation Is Not Flattery: Addressing Cultural Exploitation in Guatemala Through a Sui Generis Model, Paul Figueroa
BBC World News interviews Sonia Gipson Rankin: Biden vaccine mandate blocked, Sonia Gipson Rankin
BBC World News interviews Sonia Gipson Rankin: Verdict of trial in murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Sonia Gipson Rankin
Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin
BBC World News interviews Sonia Gipson Rankin: Daunte Wright police shooting trial verdict, Kimberly Potter fatally shot Mr. Wright mistaking her handgun for Taser, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin
Diverse Magazine interviews Sonia Gipson-Rankin: Law Schools Respond to the Movement for Social Justice, Sonia Gipson Rankin and Pearl Stewart
The COVID Ceiling: Super-Moms are Struggling, Verónica Gonzales-Zamora
Civil Procedure Update 2021 (Handout and Slide Deck), Verónica Gonzales-Zamora and Julio C. Romero
Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory: LatCrit Theory, Praxis and Community, Marc-Tizoc Gonzaléz, Sarudzayi Matambanadzo, and Sheila I. Vélez Martínez
Dear Ohio interviews Vinay Harpalani: Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month and highlighting the rise of violence against Asian Americans, Vinay Harpalani
“Preservative of All Other Rights”: Voting and Social Justice in the Post-Trump Era, Vinay Harpalani
“Trumping” Affirmative Action, Vinay Harpalani
Understanding the Nuances: Diversity Among Asian American Pacific Islanders, Vinay Harpalani
Building Asian American and Black Solidarity for Racial Justice in Today’s America, Vinay Harpalani, Sunu P. Chandy, Sholanna Lewis, and Frank H. Wu
Harvard Crimson interviews Vinay Harpalani: Justice Department Drops Yale Admissions Lawsuit, Signifying Likely Shift in Harvard Suit, Vinay Harpalani, Raquel Coronell Uribe, and Jasper Goodman
Harvard Crimson interviews Vinay Harpalani: ‘Complete Switch in Position’: Legal Experts Say Biden Likely to Back Harvard in Race-Conscious Admissions Suit, Vinay Harpalani, Benjamin L. Fu, and Vivi E. Lu
The Washington Post interviews Vinay Harpalani: The courts have served as an anti-democratic force for much of U.S. history, Vinay Harpalani and David A. Love
Harvard Crimson interviews Vinay Harpalani, Students for Fair Admissions Petitions SCOTUS to Take Up Suit Against Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions, Vinay Harpalani and Vivi E. Lu
The Harvard Crimson interviews Vinay Harpalani: Supreme Court Delays Decision on Reviewing Harvard Admissions Lawsuit, Vinay Harpalani, Vivi E. Lu, and Dekyi T. Tsotsong
Washington Monthly interviews Vinay Harpalani: Asian Americans and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, Vinay Harpalani and Reginald C. Oh
Voice of America interviews Vinay Harpalani, 大學招生該不該考慮種族因素？哈佛“歧視亞裔”案上訴最高法院 (Should college admissions consider racial factors? Harvard "discrimination against Asians" case appealed to the Supreme Court), Vinay Harpalani and Mo Yu
Anomalous Anatomies: How the TSA Should Screen for Transgender People, Karissa J. Kang and John M. Kang
Global News Toronto interviews Joshua Kastenberg: US House debate over 2nd impeachment of Trump, Joshua Kastenberg
KOB-4 interviews Joshua Kastenberg: Constitutional law experts weighs in on U.S. Capitol insurrection aftermath, Trump impeachment, Joshua Kastenberg
KOB-4 interviews Joshua Kastenberg: 'It's absolutely devastating', UNM law expert addresses Capitol Hill riots, Joshua Kastenberg
BBC World News interviews Joshua Kastenberg: US Capital Violence Aftermath, Joshua Kastenberg and BBC World News
The Global Herald interviews Joshua Kastenberg: Ahmaud Arbery verdict: Key details from the trial as 3 men found guilty of murder, Joshua E. Kastenberg and Miranda Anthistle
How to combat New Mexico’s housing crisis? UNM law professor and advocate Serge Martinez has answers., Serge A. Martinez and Annabella Farmer
Bad Apples or a Rotten Tree: Ameliorating the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Racial Economic Inequality, Nathalie Martin
Bad Apples or a Rotten Tree: Ameliorating the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Racial Economic Inequality, Nathalie Martin
Reducing The Wealth Gap Through Fintech 'Advances' in Consumer Banking and Lending, Nathalie Martin and Pamela Foohey
Crunchbase News interviews Nathalie Martin: Beyond Payday Loans: More Startups And VCs Bank On Subprime Lending Alternatives, Nathalie Martin and Christine Hall
CNN interviews Alfred Mathewson: Nikole Hannah-Jones chose HBCU Howard over UNC. Here's why that's significant, Alfred Mathewson and Leah Asmelash
Albuquerque Journal interviews Gabriel Pacyniak, Bill Would Help Indebted Utility Customers, Gabriel Pacyniak and Kevin Robinson-Avila
California v. Texas: The Role of Congressional Procedure in Severability Doctrine, Mary Leto Pareja
The Santa Fe New Mexican interviews Lysette Romero Córdova: New Mexico Civil Rights Act now law, Lysette Romero Córdova
Pore Space Property, Joseph A. Schremmer
When Engineering Solutions Cause Legal Problems: The Developing Field of Reservoir Rights and Liabilities, Joseph A. Schremmer
Brief for the National Stripper Well Association as Amicus Curiae, L. Ruth Fawcett Tr. v. Oil Producers, Inc. of Kansas, Joseph A. Schremmer and Charles C. Steincamp
The Case for Outside Reverse Veil Piercing in New Mexico, Laura Spitz
Nature’s Personhood and Property’s Virtues, Laura Spitz and Eduardo M. Peñalver
'That Name Is Dead to Me': Reforming Name Change Laws to Protect Transgender and Nonbinary Youth, Sarah Steadman
Brownfields Cleanup: A Look Back and Ahead Toward Superfund Authority, Clifford Villa
Protecting Vulnerable Waterways, Clifford Villa
Submissions from 2020
Developing Youth Voices, Maryam Ahranjani
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, Maryam Ahranjani
"Toughen Up, Buttercup" versus #TimesUp: Initial Findings of the ABA Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, Maryam Ahranjani
Albuquerque Journal Interviews Maryam Ahranjani, Many Want Police Out of Schools Across NM, Maryam Ahranjani and Shelby Perea
Argument analysis: On first day of new term, Supreme Court seems skeptical of Texas’ arguments in interstate water dispute with New Mexico, Reed D. Benson
Case preview: In newest chapter in long-running water dispute, court will hear first-ever challenge to ruling by interstate river master, Reed D. Benson
Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A Founding Father and his Abolitionist Son, Sherri Burr
Criminal Justice In America: A Summit, Barbara L. Creel
JustPod interviews Barbara Creel; McGirt v Oklahoma and Indian Nations Sovereignty, Barbara L. Creel
Default Culpability Requirements: The Model Penal Code and Beyond, Scott England
Arcing Towards Justice: Dr. King’s 2020 Vision, Sonia Gipson Rankin
BBC World News interviews Sonia Gipson Rankin on the 2020 General Election, Sonia Gipson Rankin
KOB-4 Interviews Sonia Gipson Rankin and Joshua Kastenberg on the use of the Arnold Tool is setting bail, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin, Joshua Kastenberg, and Joy Wang
Civil Procedure Update 2020: New Mexico Annual Judicial Conclave, Verónica C. Gonzales-Zamora and George Bach
Civil Rights in Living Color, Vinay Harpalani
Racial Stereotypes, Respectability Politics, and Running for President: Examining Andrew Yang's and Barack Obama's Presidential Bids, Vinay Harpalani
New Mexico In Depth interviews Vinay Harpalani: Complexity of colorism, Vinay Harpalani and Claudia Silva
Hierarchies of Elitism and Gender: The Bluebook and The ALWD Guide, Steven K. Homer
Alcohol Prohibition in the New Mexico and Arizona State Judiciaries at 100 Years: The Development of Law and Shaping of Society in the Southwest, Joshua Kastenberg
BBC World News interviews Joshua Kastenberg on the Firing of Defense Secretary, Joshua Kastenberg
BBC World News interviews Joshua Kastenberg on the U.S. Election 2020, Joshua Kastenberg
LBC News London Interviews Joshua Kastenberg, Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump, Joshua Kastenberg
Albuquerque Journal interviews Joshua Kastenberg on new benchmarks for evidence rules, Joshua Kastenberg and Isabella Alves
KOB Interviews Joshua Kastenberg about Constitutional Rights during COVID-19, Joshua Kastenberg and Brittany Costello
Civil Military Relations Panel, Joshua E. Kastenberg
National Security And Judicial Ethics: The Exception To The Rule Of Keeping Judicial Conduct Judicial And The Politicization Of The Judiciary, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Fears of Tyranny: The Fine Line Between Presidential Authority Over Military Discipline and Unlawful Command Influence Through the Lens of Military Legal History in the Era of Bergdahl, Joshua E. Kastenberg
KOAB interviews Joshua Kastenberg about the impeachment process (US senators discuss impartiality during impeachment trial), Joshua E. Kastenberg and Patrick Hayes
KOB-4 interviews Josh Kastenberg: Mother wants answers after son found dead in New Mexico jail, Joshua Kastenberg and Tommy Lopez
The New York Times interviews Joshua Kastenberg on Election Day and Deployment of the National Guard, Joshua Kastenberg and Dave Phillips
KOB-4 interviews Serge Martinez: Landlords, tenants feel impact of state eviction moratorium, Serge A. Martinez
Access to Education and Affordable Housing (Panel Discussion), Serge A. Martinez and Deb Haaland
Housing & Education Roundtable Discussion, Serge A. Martinez and Deb Haaland
Bringing Relevance Back to Consumer Bankruptcy, Nathalie Martin
UNM Newsroom interviews Nathalie Martin: UNM law professor practices yoga and meditation in stressful times, Nathalie Martin and Maggie Branch
Greening the Old New Deal: Strengthening Rural Electric Cooperative Supports and Oversight to Combat Climate Change, Gabriel Pacyniak
Deconstructing Foundational Principles of Trusts and Estates Law, Sergio Pareja
