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 2013
Scattered and Dissonant: The Clean Air Act, Greenhouse Gases, and Implications for the Oil and Gas Industry, Alex Ritchie
A Critical Look at the ‘Critical Mass' Argument, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Civic Education as an Instrument of Social Mobility, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Get Rid of Tenure for Law Schools, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Guantanamo Military Commissions: Reflections from a Legal Observer (Part I, II & III), Dawinder S. Sidhu
Lessons on Terrorism and "Mistaken Identity" From Oak Creek, With a Coda on the Boston Marathon Bombings, Dawinder S. Sidhu
The Birth of the Greenback, Dawinder S. Sidhu
The Meaning and Viability of the Thirteenth Amendment, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Executive Summary on Reciprocity, Alexandra Siek, Barbara Lah, Daniel Marquez, and Patrick Redmond
Law and Lawyers in the Incident Command System, Clifford J. Villa
Carcieri: Bringing Certainty to Trust Land Acquisitions, Kevin Washburn
La Verdad, El Poder, y La Liberacion, Christine Zuni Cruz
Submissions from 2012
Alive but Irrelevant: The Prior Appropriation Doctrine in Today’s Western Water Law, Reed D. Benson
Federal Water Law and the 'Double Whammy': How the Bureau of Reclamation can Help the West Adapt to Drought and Climate Change, Reed D. Benson
Public Funding Programs for Environmental Water Acquisitions: Origins, Purposes, and Revenue Sources, Reed D. Benson
Rhetoric, Referential Communication, and the Novice Writer, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
Time Management, Sherri L. Burr
There's No Place Like Home: Realizing the Vision of Community-Based Mental Health Treatment for Children, Yael Cannon
Protecting Our Natural Environment, Denise D. Fort
Interposition and the Heresy of Nullification: James Madison and the Exercise of Sovereign Constitutional Powers, Christian G. Fritz
American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Symposium: Selected Addresses [comments], Eileen Gauna
Environmental Law, Civil Rights and Sustainability: Three Frameworks for Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna
Did You Say Library Anxiety? (Part 1 & 2), Marquita Harnett
The Othering of the AAPI Community in America (Webinar), Vinay Harpalani, Rose Cuison-Villazor, and Sean Scott
Hugo Black’s Vision of the Lawyer, The First Amendment, and the Duty of the Judiciary: The Bar Applicant Cases in a National Security State, Joshua E. Kastenberg
High-Interest Loans and Class: Do Payday and Title Loans Really Serve the Middle Class?, Ernesto A. Longa and Nathalie Martin
Law Clinics in Taiwan: Can Clinical Legal Education Succeed in This Civil Law Jurisdiction with an Undergraduate Legal Education System?, Serge A. Martinez
Performance Isn't Everything: The Importance of Conceptual Competence in Outcome Assessment of Experiential Learning, Serge A. Martinez and Stefan H. Krieger
Grand Theft Auto Loans: Repossession and Demographic Realities in Title Lending, Nathalie Martin
The Alliance between Payday Lenders and Tribes: Are Both Tribal Sovereignty and Consumer Protection at Risk?, Nathalie Martin
Remediating Discrimination Against African American Females at the Intersection of Title IX and Title VI, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
The Bowl Championship Series, Conference Realignment and the Major College Football Oligopoly: Revolution Not Reform, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
The Criminal Rules Enabling Act, Max J. Minzner
Why Agencies Punish, Max J. Minzner
Legal Education, Social Justice and the Law School Dean: Latinas at the Center, Margaret E. Montoya
Albuquerque Journal interviews Moore about the law of compassion, Jennifer Moore
Humanitarian Law in Action within Africa, Jennifer Moore
R2P= MDGs: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect through the Millennium Development Goals, Jennifer Moore
A Modest Proposal: The Aged of Death Row Should be Deemed too Old to Execute, Elizabeth Rapaport
Avoidable “Fraccident”: An Argument Against Strict Liability for Hydraulic Fracturing, Joseph A. Schremmer
Beyond Best Practices for Legal Education: Reflections on Cultural Awareness - Exploring the Issues in Creating a Law School and Classroom Culture, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Brief for National Congress of American Indians Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants Motion for Rehearing En Banc, Knight v. Thompson as Amicus Curiae, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Brief for Thirteenth Amendment Scholars, United States v. Hatch as Amicus Curiae, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Call the Colorado Shootings What They Were: Terrorism, Dawinder S. Sidhu
In the Wake of the Temple Shootings, a New Call for Sikh Leadership, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Oak Creek and the Future of Sikhs in America, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Out of Sight, Out of Legal Recourse: Interpreting and Revising Title VII to Prohibit Workplace Segregation Premised on Religion, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Religious Freedom and Inmate Grooming Standards, Dawinder S. Sidhu
The Unconstitutionality of Urban Poverty, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Violence against Sikhs stems from ignorance and fear, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Dawinder S. Sidhu on Hate Crimes, Terrorism, and Sikhs, Dawinder S. Sidhu and Benjamin Wittes
The Practice of Disaster Law, Clifford J. Villa
Law School a Wellspring of Future U.S Leaders, Kevin Washburn
Law school a wellspring of future U.S. leaders, Kevin Washburn
Lines of Tribe, Christine Zuni Cruz
The Indigenous Legal Tradition as Foundational Law, Christine Zuni Cruz
Submissions from 2011
Can They Do That to Me?! Does the 8th Amendment Protection Children’s Best Interests?, Maryam Ahranjani
Environmental Review of Western Water Project Operations: Where NEPA has not Applied, Will it now Protect Farmers from Fish?, Reed D. Benson
New Adventures of the Old Bureau: Modern-Day Reclamation Statutes and Congress Unfinished Environmental Business, Reed D. Benson
Public on Paper: The Failure of Law to Protect Public Water Uses in the Western United States, Reed D. Benson
Can Havruta Style Learning Be a Best Practice in Law School?, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
Teaching, Thinking, and the Legal Creative Process, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
Whos the Boss?: The Need for Thoughtful Identification of the Client(s) in Special Education Cases', Yael Cannon
Correcting Myopia in Domestic Violence Advocacy: Moving Forward in Lawyering and Law School Clinics, Camille Carey
Tribal Court Convictions and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Respect for Tribal Courts and Tribal People in Federal Sentencing, Barbara L. Creel
Too Hot to Handle: Climate Change and Agricultural Water Use, Denise D. Fort
Groundwater Policy in the Western United States, Denise D. Fort and Summer McKean
Lawyering Beyond Without Leaving Individual Clients Behind, April Land
Universal Citation and the American Association of Law Libraries: A White Paper, Jennifer Laws, Timothy L. Coggins, and John Cannan
Regulating Payday Loans: Why this should Make the CFPB's Short List, Nathalie Martin
Reassessing Concurrent Tribal-State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Kansas, Aliza Organick
Challenges Associated with Providing Tenure and Continuous Appointment Opportunities for Academic Law Librarians, Carol A. Parker
How Law Schools Benefit When Librarians Publish, Teach and Hold Faculty Status, Carol A. Parker
Tenure Advice for Law Librarians and Their Directors, Carol A. Parker
The Need for Faculty Status and Uniform Tenure Requirements for Law Librarians, Carol A. Parker
The Due Diligence Process and Its Impact on the Deal: A Primer on Bayoneting the Wounded, Alex Ritchie and A. John Davis
Building on Best Practices–Call for Ideas and Authors, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
A Crisis of Confidence and Legal Theory: Why the Economic Downturn Should Help Signal the End of the Doctrine of Efficient Breach, Dawinder S. Sidhu
A Decade After 9/11, Ignorance Persists, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Shadowing the Flag: Extending the Habeas Writ Beyond Guantanamo, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Elena Kagan and the Miracle at Harvard, Kevin Washburn
Hoping for a Smooth [Redistricting] Process This Time, Kevin Washburn
Legislature Mustn't Rush Redistricting (No One Size Fits All in Judicial Selection), Kevin Washburn
Response to House Memorial 41 Requesting a Study of the Use of Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel, Kevin Washburn, Kevin Boberg, and Jeffrey Kendall
Submissions from 2010
Gomez Redux: Procedural and Substantive Developments Twelve Years On, Michael B. Browde
Protecting New Mexico’s Waters: A Blueprint for the Future, Denise D. Fort
Out From Under the Shadow of the Federal Constitution: An Overlooked American Constitutionalism, Christian G. Fritz
Deregulation Pas De Deux: Dual Regulatory Classes of Financial Institutions and the Path to Financial Crisis in Sweden and the United States, Erik F. Gerding
An Introduction to Islamic Law by Wael B. Hallaq, Jennifer Laws
A Tale of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling through Repeated Experiences, Serge A. Martinez and Stefan H. Krieger
1,000% Interest- Good While Supplies Last: A Study of Payday Loan Practices and Solutions, Nathalie Martin
Double Down-and-Out: The Connection Between Payday Loans and Bankruptcy, Nathalie Martin and Koo Im Tong
Saving Stare Decisis: Preclusion, Precedent, and Procedural Due Process, Max J. Minzner
Report & Recommendations Legal Scholar Team, Margaret E. Montoya, Tucker Culbertson, and Marc-Tizoc González
Seeking Educational Self-Determination: Raza Studies for Revolution, Margaret E. Montoya, Marcos Pizarro, Monica Nanez, Ray Chavez, and Nadine Bermudez
How One Law Review Article Transformed the Law of New Mexico Forever (Not!), Ted Occhialino
It Taxes a Village: The Problem with Routinely Taxing Barter Transactions, Sergio Pareja
