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 2007
The Chilling Effect of Government Surveillance Programs on the Use of the Internet By Muslim-Americans, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Wands Away (or Preaching to Infidels Who Wear Earplugs), Laura Spitz
Unpacking Pandora's Box: Innovative Techniques for Effectively Counseling Asylum Applicants Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Carol M. Suzuki
Indian Law on State Bar Exams: A Situational Report, Gloria Valencia-Weber
Public Safety and Criminal Jurisdiction, Conference Transcript: The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law, Kevin Washburn
Testimony on Law Enforcement in Indian Country before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 110th Congress, 1st Session, Kevin Washburn
Submissions from 2006
Prosecutorial Discretion in the Post-Booker World, Norman C. Bay
Adequate Progress, or Rivers Left Behind? Developments in Colorado and Wyoming Instream Flow Laws Since 2000, Reed D. Benson
A Few Ironies of Western Water Law, Reed D. Benson
Deflating the Deference Myth: National Interests vs. State Authority under Federal Laws Affecting Water Use, Reed D. Benson
The Immortal Hattie McDaniel, Sherri L. Burr
Keep Your Money: Let the West Pay for its Own Water Projects, Denise D. Fort
The Next Epidemic: Bubbles and the Growth and Decay of Securities Regulation, Erik F. Gerding
The Impact on New Mexico’s Budget of Allowing Same-Sex Couples to Marry, Steven K. Homer, M.V. Lee Badgett, R. Bradley Sears, Patrice Curtis, and Elizabeth Kukura
Implicit Divestiture Reconsidered: Outtakes from the Cohen's Handbook Cutting-Room Floor, John P. LaVelle
Resourceful and Tough: The Fifth Circuit Libraries Pull Together to Weather Hurricanes, Jennifer Laws
Defending the Future Voices of Critical Race Feminism, Margaret E. Montoya
LatCrit at Ten Years, Margaret E. Montoya
Practicing What We Preach: Humane Treatment for Detainees in the War on Terror, Jennifer Moore
Creating a Tribal Law Practice Clinic in Kansas: Carving the Peg to Fit the Hole, Aliza Organick
Mad Women and Desperate Girls: Infanticide and Child Murder in Law and Myth, Elizabeth Rapaport
DSpace: One Schools' Use of an Open Source Institutional Repository, Michelle Rigual
Find It Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web (2006), Michelle Rigual
OCLC: WorldCat Collection Analysis Service and the Desert States Law Library Consortium, Michelle Rigual
WorldCat Collection Analysis Service and the Desert States Law Library Consortium, Michelle Rigual
The Ethical Health Lawyer: When Doing the Right Thing Means Breaking the Law - What is the Role of the Health Lawyer?, Robert L. Schwartz
Denial, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
The Immorality and Inefficiency of an Efficient Breach, Dawinder S. Sidhu
When the State Bar Exam Embraces Indian Law: Teaching Experiences and Observations, Gloria Valencia-Weber and Sherri Nicole Thomas
American Indians, Crime, and the Law, Kevin Washburn
Federal Criminal Law and Tribal Self-Determination, Kevin Washburn
Public Safety and Criminal Justice, Kevin Washburn
Tribal Self-Determination at the Crossroads, Kevin Washburn
Toward a Pedagogy and Ethic of Law/Lawyering for Indigenous Peoples, Christine Zuni Cruz
Submissions from 2005
Executive Power and the War on Terror, Norman C. Bay
Pollution Without Solution: Flow Impairment Problems Under Clean Water Act Section 303, Reed D. Benson
The Supreme Court of Science Speaks on Water Rights: The National Academy of Sciences Columbia River Report and Its Water Policy Implications, Reed D. Benson
The U.S. Supreme Court and the Alvarez-Machain Cases: Recasting International Law, Sherri Burr
Recovering the Lost Worlds of America's Written Constitutions, Christian G. Fritz
The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster, Eileen Gauna
Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna, Catherine A. O'Neill, and Clifford Rechtschaffen
Back to the Future: Regional Differences in New Mexico Water Rights, G. Emlen Hall
Wet Water Law: New Mexico Style, G. Emlen Hall
Field Marshall Douglas Haig: A Negative Leadership Lesson in Military History, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Lawson Edward Thomas and Miami's Negro Municipal Court, Ernesto A. Longa
Poverty, Culture and the Bankruptcy Code: Narratives from the Money Law Clinic, Nathalie Martin
The Role of History and Culture in Developing Bankruptcy and Insolvency Systems: The Perils of Legal Transplantation, Nathalie Martin
The Picture of Equality, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Treating Tribes Differently: Civil Jurisdiction Inside and Outside Indian Country, Max J. Minzner
Albuquerque Journal interviews Moore about War On Terror meeting, Jennifer Moore
Environmental Clean-Up Expenses: Taxing Times for the BLM and Miners, Sergio Pareja
DSpace, Institutional Repositories and the Open Access Movement: Why Should you Care?, Carol A. Parker
Latinas in Legal Education- Through the Doors of Opportunity: Assimilation, Marginalization, Cooptation or Transformation?, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Insurance Bad Faith and Punitive Damages After Sloan v. State Farm, David J. Stout
Reconsidering the Commission’s Treatment of Tribal Courts, Kevin Washburn
Testimony on the Regulation of Indian Gaming, United States Senate, Committee on Indian Affairs, 109th Congress, 1st Session, Kevin Washburn
Four Questions on Critical Race Praxis: Lessons from Two Young Lives in Indian Country, Christine Zuni Cruz
Submissions from 2004
Fallacies of American Constitutionalism, Christian G. Fritz
Mediator Immunity: The Misguided and Inequitable Shifting of Risk, Scott H. Hughes
Analyzing the Constitutional Tensions and Applicability of Military Rule of Evidence 505 in Courts-Martial Over United States Service Members: Secrecy in the Shadow of Lone Tree, Joshua E. Kastenberg
The Use of Conventional International Law in Combating Terrorism: A Maginot Line for Modern Civilization Employing the Principles of Anticipatory Self-Defense & Preemption, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Universal Jurisdiction and the Concept of a Fair Trial Prosecutor v. Fulgence Niyonteze: A Swiss Military Tribunal Case Study, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Petitioner's Brief - Reargument of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, John P. LaVelle
HIPAA Privacy and Security: Issues for Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, Mary Leto Pareja
Who Gets in? The Quest for Diversity after Grutter, Margaret E. Montoya, Athena Mutua, Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu, Charles E. Daye, and David L. Chambers
Collective Security with a Human Face: An International Legal Framework for Coordinated Action to Alleviate Violence and Poverty, Jennifer Moore
Where Is Health Law Going?: Follow the Money, Robert L. Schwartz
At the Intersection of North American Free Trade and Same-Sex Marriage, Laura Spitz
Racial Equality: Old and New Strains and American Indians, Gloria Valencia-Weber
Santa Clara Pueblo V. Martinez: Twenty-Five Years of Disparate Cultural Visions an Essay Introducing the Case for Re-Argument Before the American Indian Nations Supreme Court, Gloria Valencia-Weber
Clear The Air: The Road Taken: A Reflection on Michael C. Blumm & William Warnock's Roads Not Taken: EPA vs. Clean Water, Clifford J. Villa
Federal Law, State Policy, and Indian Gaming, Kevin Washburn
Lara, Lawrence, Supreme Court Litigation, and Lessons from Social Movements, Kevin Washburn
The Mechanics of Indian Gaming Management Contract Approval, Kevin Washburn
Tribal Courts and Federal Sentencing, Kevin Washburn
A Different Kind of Symmetry, Kevin K. Washburn
A Legacy of Public Law 280: Comparing and Contrasting Minnesota's New Rule for the Recognition of Tribal Court Judgments with the Recent Arizona Rule, Kevin Washburn and Chloe Thompson
Submissions from 2003
The Interior Department's Water 2025: Blueprint for Balance, or Just Better Business as Usual?, Reed D. Benson
Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty: A Guide to State Legislative Issues, James W. Ellis
Brief for American Association on Mental Retardation, The Arc, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and TASH, Tennard v. Dretke, James W. Ellis, Norman C. Bay, Michael Browde, Christian G. Fritz, April Land, and Robert Schwartz
Brief for American Association on Mental Retardation, The Arc of the United States, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, The Arc of Georgia, and the Georgia Advocacy Office, Stripling v. Head, James W. Ellis, Carol M. Suzuki Ms., Norman C. Bay, and Christian G. Fritz
Improving New Mexico's Water Management, Denise D. Fort and Tom McGuckin
Environmental Justice: Stakes, Stakeholders, Strategies, Eileen Gauna and Shiela Foster
Understanding Conflict in a Postmodern World, Scott H. Hughes
Enforcing Internationally Recognized Human Rights Violations under the Alien Tort Claims Act: an Analysis of the Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Doe v. Unocal, Joshua E. Kastenberg
The Right to Assistance of Counsel in Military and War Crimes Tribunals: An International and Domestic Law Analysis, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Are County Officials Liable for Forcibly Executing a Search Warrant Against a Sovereign Indian Tribe, John P. LaVelle
Un/Braiding Stories About Law, Sexuality and Morality, Margaret E. Montoya
Speaking Law to Power: Joan Fitzpatrick, 1950-2003 (obituary), Jennifer Moore
Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Environment: Must Ethics get in the Way of Holistic Service, J. Michael Norwood
Estate Tax Repeal Under EGTRRA: A Proposal for Simplification, Sergio Pareja
Straight Is the Gate: Capital Clemency in the United States from Gregg to Atkins, Elizabeth Rapaport
Procedures for Investigating and Prosecuting White Collar Crime, Leo M. Romero
