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 2002
A Three-Dimensional Model for the Use of Expert Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence in False Confession Defenses Before the Trier of Fact, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Toward a Great Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center and Supreme Court: An Interim Planning and Recommendation Report for the Wakpa Sica Historical Society’s Reconciliation Place Project, John P. LaVelle and Frank Pommersheim
Explorations in the Classroom: A Book Review of Secured Credit: A Systems Approach, Nathalie Martin
Que es la Diferencia?: A Comparison of the First Days of a Business Reorganization Case in Mexico and the United States, Nathalie Martin
A Glance at the New Article 9 Secured Transaction, Nathalie Martin and Frederick M. Hart
A Brief History of Chicana/o School Segregation: One Rationale for Affirmative Action, Margaret E. Montoya
The Future of Civil Rights: A Dialogue, Margaret E. Montoya
Selecting a Trust Situs in the 21st Century, Sergio Pareja and John A. Warnick
Judicial Selection in New Mexico: A Hybrid of Commission Nomination and Partisan Election, Leo M. Romero
Teaching a Professional Responsibility Course: Lessons Learned from the Clinic, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Rice v. Cayetano: The Supreme Court Declines to Extend Federal Indian Law Principles to Native Hawaiians Sovereign Rights, Jeanette Wolfley
Submissions from 2001
Mary Daily v. Boston College: The Impermissibility of Single-Sex Classes in Private Universities, Maryam Ahranjani
Integrating Indian Law into a First Year Legal Writing Course, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
Suits against the States: The Changing Law of Immunities, Michael B. Browde, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Ruth Kovnat
From Noriega to Pinochet: Is There an International Moral and Legal Right to Kidnap Individuals Accused of Gross Human Rights Violations?, Sherri L. Burr
Television and Societal Effects: An Analysis of Media Images of African-Americans in Historical Context, Sherri L. Burr
EPA at Thirty: Fairness in Environmental Protection, Eileen Gauna
A Survey of Federal Agency Responses to President Clinton’s Executive Order Number 12898 on Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna, Denis Binder, Colin Crawford, M. Casey Jarman, Alice Kaswan, Catherine A. O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Bradford C. Mank, and Robert R.M. Verchick
The Uniform Mediation Act: To the Spoiled Go the Privileges, Scott H. Hughes
Brief for The American Association on Mental Retardation, The ARC of the United States, The American Orthopsychiatric Association, Physicians for Human Rights, The American Network of Community Options and Resources, The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and The National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems as Amici Curiae, April Land, James W. Ellis, Christian G. Fritz, and Michael B. Browde
Rescuing Paha Sapa: Achieving Environmental Justice by Restoring the Great Grasslands and Returning the Sacred Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation, John P. LaVelle
Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Indian Participation in American Politics: A Reply to Professor Porter, John P. LaVelle
Funding Long Term Care: Is There a Way to Ensure That Our Assets Will Last Longer Than We Will?, Nathalie Martin
Some Brief Comments about the Pre-Merger Notification Processes in Mexico and the United States, Alfred Mathewson
Did the Fifteenth Amendment Apply in Bush v. Gore, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Grooming Crossovers, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Class in LatCrit: Theory and Praxis in a World of Economic Inequality (Foreword), Margaret E. Montoya
Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Protection, Jennifer Moore
Staying Alive: Executive Clemency, Equal Protection, and the Politics of Gender in Women's Capital Cases, Elizabeth Rapaport
The Georgia Immigration Pardons: A Case Study in Mass Clemency, Elizabeth Rapaport
Ethnocentrism and Feminism: Using a Contextual Methodology in International Women's Rights Advocacy and Education, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Learning Through Service in a Clinical Setting: The Effect of Specialization on Social Justice & Skills Training, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Cleaning Up the Tracks: Superfund Meets Rails-to-Trails, Clifford J. Villa
Recurring Problems in Indian Gaming, Kevin Washburn
Submissions from 2000
Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Securing water for federal and tribal lands in the West, Reed D. Benson
O.J. as a Tale of 2 Operas (Essays on the Trials of the Century), Sherri L. Burr
Instream Flows in New Mexico, Denise D. Fort
American Constitution-Making: The Neglected State Constitutional Sources, Christian G. Fritz and Marsha L. Baum
Tularosa and the Dismantling of New Mexico Community Ditches, G. Emlen Hall
The Attorney-Client Privilege: Practical Military Applications of a Professional Core Value, Joshua E. Kastenberg and Norman K. Thompson
Funding Long-Term Care: Some Risk-Spreaders Create More Risk Than They Cure, Nathalie Martin
Les Jeux Ne Sont Pas Fait: The Right to Dignified Long-Term Care in the Face on Industry-Wide Financial Failure, Nathalie Martin
The Insolvent Life Care Provider: Who Leads the Dance between the Federal Bankruptcy Code and State Continuing-Care Statutes, Nathalie Martin
The Eligibility Paradox, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Silence and Silencing: Their Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Cultural Expression, Pedagogy and Legal Discourse, Margaret E. Montoya
Equality of the Damned: The Execution of Women on the Cusp of the 21st Century, Elizabeth Rapaport
Retribution and Redemption in the Operation of Executive Clemency, Elizabeth Rapaport
Evolving Indigenous Law: Navajo Marriage--Cultural Traditions and Modern Challenges, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Submissions from 1999
A Partnership with the Bar: A Law Library's Experience in Taking a Leadership Role in CLE Training on Legal Research, Marsha Baum
Sanctioning a Tyranny: The Diminishment of Ex parte Young, Expansion of Hans Immunity, and Denial of Indian Rights in Coeur d'Alene Tribe, John P. LaVelle
The General Allotment Act "Eligibility" Hoax: Distortions of Law, Policy, and History in Derogation of Indian Tribes, John P. LaVelle
U.S./Mexico Cross-Border Issue: Child Abduction—The Need for Cooperation, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Ali to Flood to Marshall: The Most Triumphant of Words, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Commercial and Corporate Lawyers 'N the Hood, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Emphasizing Torts in Claims of Discrimination Against Black Female Athletes, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Measuring Gender Equity, Alfred Dennis Mathewson and Robert D. Rogers
Entrenching Interests: State Supermajority Requirements to Raise Taxes, Max J. Minzner
Gagged but not Bound: The Ineffectiveness of the Rules Governing Judicial Campaign Speech, Max J. Minzner
Introduction: LatCrit Theory: Mapping It's Intellectual and Political Foundations and Future Self-Critical Directions, Margaret E. Montoya
From Nation State to Failed State: International Protection from Human Rights Abuses by Non-State Agents, Jennifer Moore
Herding Cats: Improving Law School Teaching, Ted Occhialino, Michael M. Simon, and Robert L. Fried
Intermediate Sanctions: Controlling the Tax-Exempt Organization Manager, Alex Ritchie
A Comparative Analysis of Women's Issues: Toward a Contextualized Approach, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Not Him, Sister's Stories & Teresita (Poems), Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Testimony, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Translating Legal Terms in Context, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Brief of Intervenor, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), M.v.H., Laura Spitz
[On the] Road Back in: Community Lawyering in Indigenous Communities, Christine Zuni Cruz
Submissions from 1998
Maintaining the Status Quo: Protecting established water uses in the Pacific Northwest, despite the rules of prior appropriation, Reed D. Benson
Recommendations For An Environmentally Sound Federal Policy on Western Water, Reed D. Benson
State v. Gomez and the Continuing Conversation over New Mexico's State Constitutional Rights Jurisprudence, Michael B. Browde
Some Observations on the Juvenile Commitment Cases: Reconceptualizing what the Child has at Stake, James W. Ellis
A Nineteenth Century Habeas Corpus Mill: The Chinese Before the Federal Courts in California, Christian G. Fritz
Book review: Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico by Malcolm Ebright (UNM Press, 1994), Christian G. Fritz
The Environmental Justice Misfit: Public Participation and the Paradigm Paradox, Eileen Gauna
A Closer Look: The Case for a Mediation Confidentiality Privilege Has Not Been Made, Scott H. Hughes
Facilitative Mediation or Evaluative Mediation: May Your Choice Be a Wise One, Scott H. Hughes
Panel Discussions from "Indian Nations on the Eve of the 21st Century, John P. LaVelle, Frank Pommersheim, Larry Long, James Abourezk, and Christopher Schneider
Excursions of a Random Walk Related to the Strong Law of Large Numbers, Max J. Minzner, Travis Lee, and Evan Fisher
Religious Rituals and LatCrit Theorizing, Margaret E. Montoya
The Inevitable Collision: Affirmative Action and the Constitution, Jennifer Moore
Reflections on the LSAC National Longitudinal Bar Passage Study: Two Findings That Have Immediate Impact, Leo M. Romero
Brief of Intervenor, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Ferrel v. Ontario, Laura Spitz
Strengthening What Remains, Christine Zuni Cruz
Submissions from 1997
Whose Water Is It? Private rights and public authority over reclamation project water, Reed D. Benson
The Piracy Gap: Protecting Intellectual Property in an Era of Artistic Creativity and Technological Change, Sherri L. Burr
Alternative Visions of American Constitutionalism: Popular Sovereignty and the Early American Constitutional Debate, Christian G. Fritz
A Brief History of New Mexico Water Rights Administration since 1907, G. Emlen Hall
The Pecos River Controversy- How Did We Get Here?, G. Emlen Hall
Honesty, Privacy and Shame: When Gay People Talk About Other Gay People to Nongay People, Steven K. Homer and David L. Chambers
The Legal Regime for Protecting Cultural Property During Armed Conflict, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Construction Work: The Canons of Indian Law (Case Note), Max J. Minzner
Academic Mestizaje: Re/Producing Clinical Teaching and Re/Framing Wills as Latina Praxis, Margaret E. Montoya
Lines of Demarcation in a Town Called Frontera: A Review of John Sayles' Movie Lone Star, Margaret E. Montoya
Of 'Subtle Prejudices,' White Supremacy and Affirmative Action: A Reply to Paul Butler, Margaret E. Montoya
Voicing Differences (Comment), Margaret E. Montoya
Restoring the Humanitarian Character of U.S. Refugee Law: Lessons from the International Community, Jennifer Moore
Bioethics Policy: Looking Beyond the Power of Sovereign Governments (Foreword), Robert L. Schwartz
Family Secrets, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
