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 1996
Changing Interpretations of New Mexico's Constitutional Provisions Allocating Water Resources: Integrating Private Property Rights and Public Values, Charles T. Dumars
The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 by Charles R. Cutter, G. Emlen Hall
An Enlightened Addition to the Original Meaning: Voltaire and the Eighth Amendment’s Prohibition Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Joshua E. Kastenberg
A Three-Dimensional Model of Stadium Owner Liability in Spectator Injury Cases, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Review Essay: “Indians Are Us?: Culture and Genocide in Native North America" by ME Monroe, John P. LaVelle
Black Women, Gender Equity and the Function at the Junction, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Border Crossings in an Age of Border Patrols: Cruzando Fronteras Metaforicas, Margaret E. Montoya
Voices/Voces in the Borderlands: A Colloquy on Re/Constructing Identities in Re/Constructed Legal Spaces, Margaret E. Montoya and Melissa Harrison
Representing Mexican Clients in U.S. Courts in Claims of Liability in Industrial Accidents, Ted Occhialino
Should the Michigan Supreme Court Adopt a Non-Majority Vote Rule for Granting Leave to Appeal?, Carol A. Parker
Capital Murder and the Domestic Discount: A Study of Capital Domestic Murder in the Post Furman Era, Elizabeth Rapaport
Brief of Intervenor, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Goertz v. Gordon, Laura Spitz
Observations on the Evolution of Indian Law in the Law Schools, Rennard Strickland and Gloria Valencia-Weber
Submissions from 1995
Why IRAC Should Be IGPAC, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
Indian Culture and Spirituality: Some Reflections on the Shaping and Sharing of Cultural Values, Sherri L. Burr
House Passess Unbalanced Clean Water Act, Denise D. Fort
Its Time for a State Environmental Policy Act, Denise D. Fort
Book review: Rethinking the American Constitutional Tradition: National Dimensions in the Formulation of State Constitutions, Christian G. Fritz
Federal Environmental Citizen Provisions: Obstacles and Incentives on the Road to Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna
Elizabeth's Story: Exploring Power Imbalances in Divorce Mediation, Scott H. Hughes
Assessing the Evolution and Available Actions for Recovery in Cultural Property Claims, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Scenes from the Continuum: Sustaining the MacCrate Report's Vision of Legal Education into the Twenty-First Century, J. Michael Norwood
Law School Training of American Indians as Legal-Warriors, Gloria Valencia-Weber
Shrinking Indian Country: A State Offensive to Divest Tribal Sovereignty, Gloria Valencia-Weber
Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States, Christine Zuni Cruz and Gloria Valencia-Weber
Submissions from 1994
Making a Wrong Thing Right: Ending the "Spread" of Reclamation Project Water, Reed D. Benson and Kimberley J. Priestley
The American Constitutional Tradition Revisited: Preliminary Observations on State Constitution-Making in the Nineteenth Century West, Christian G. Fritz
Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West by M. Catherine Miller., G. Emlen Hall
Defining Legal Writing: An Empirical Analysis of the Legal Memorandum, Frederick M. Hart and Hunter M. Breland
Against Marriage, Steven K. Homer
Law and Language(s): Image, Integration and Innovation, Margaret E. Montoya
Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories with Legal Discourse, Margaret E. Montoya
Concluding Remarks, Leo M. Romero
On Privilege, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
1993 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Effective December 1, 1993, Daid J. Stout
You've Got It Coming -- Winning Discovery through Effective Motions Practice, David J. Stout
American Indian Law and History: Instructional Mirrors, Gloria Valencia-Weber
Tribal Courts: Custom and Innovative Law, Gloria Valencia-Weber
The Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals, Christine Zuni Cruz
Recognizing and Enforcing State and Tribal Judgments: A Round Table Discussion of Law, Policy and Practice, Christine Zuni Cruz, Mario E. Occhialino Jr., Philip Sam Deloria, Richard E. Ranson Honorable, Robert N. Clinton, Robert Laurence, and Nell Jessup Newton
Submissions from 1993
Popular Sovereignty, Vigilantism and the Constitutional Right of Revolution, Christian G. Fritz
Life Style, Health Status, and Distributive Justice, Robert L. Schwartz
Colonization, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
R. v. Parks: Automatism and Murder, Laura Spitz and Isabel Grant
Cipollone v. Liggitt Group, Inc., Federal Preemption and the Preservation of State Common Law Claims (Product Liability), David J. Stout
The Government Contractor Defense, David J. Stout
California Dreaming: Water Transfers from the Pacific Northwest, Clifford J. Villa
Recognizing and Enforcing State and Tribal Judgments: A Round Table Discussion of Law, Policy and Practice, Christine Zuni Cruz, Richard E. Ranson Honorable, Philip Sam Deloria, Robert N. Clinton, Robert Laurence, Nell Jessup Newton, and Mario E. Occhialino Jr.
Submissions from 1992
500 Years after Columbus: Promoting and Protecting Multiculturalism in the Arts, Sherri L. Burr
History of the New Mexico Court of Appeals, Thomas A. Donnelly and Pamela B. Minzner
Decisions by and for People with Mental Retardation: Balancing Considerations of Autonomy and Protection, James W. Ellis
Limits on the State's Power to Confine 'Dangerous' Persons: Constitutional Implications of Foucha v. Louisiana, James W. Ellis
The Judicial Business of a Nineteenth-Century Federal Trial Court: The Northern District of California, 1851-1891, Christian G. Fritz
Shell Games: The Continuing Legacy of Rights to Minerals and Water on Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in the Southwest, G. Emlen Hall
Corporate Culpability Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Jennifer Moore
Two Legal Constructs of Motherhood: "Protective" Legislation in Mexico and the United States, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Submissions from 1991
Reflections on a Scholarly Agenda for the Beginning Law Professor, Sherri L. Burr
Liberation of Foreign Investment Policies in Mexico: Legal Changes Encouraging New Direct Foreign Investment, Charles T. DuMars
State Market Power and Environmental Protection: A State's Right to Exclude Garbage in Interstate Commerce, Charles T. DuMars
Federalism and the Prevention of Groundwater Contamination, Denise D. Fort
Pyrrhic Victories and Glorious Defeats: Why Defendants Are Winning and Plaintiffs Are Losing the Struggle over Actual Malice and Fictionalized Quotation, Richard A. Gonzales
San Miguel del Bado and the Loss of the Common Lands of New Mexico Community Land Grants, G. Emlen Hall
Solid Waste Regulation in Indian Country, Ruth L. Kovnat
Simple Justice: Humanitarian Law as a Defense to Deportation, Jennifer Moore
Choosing Federal Court for Determination of State Law Questions, Ted Occhialino
The Death Penalty and Gender Discrimination, Elizabeth Rapaport
Medicaid Reform through Setting Health Care Priorities, Robert L. Schwartz
Gender, Legal Education and Legal Careers, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez, Lee Teitelbaum, and Jeffrey Jenkins
Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Cleveland v. Piper Aircraft and Second Collision Liability, David J. Stout
Jim Crow, Indian Style: The Disenfranchisement of Native Americans, Jeanette Wolfley
Submissions from 1990
A Critical Assessment of Reid's Work for Hire Framework and Its Potential Impact on the Marketplace for Scholarly Works, Sherri L. Burr
Test Tube Babies, Surrogate Mothers, Frozen Embryos: Searching for Solutions, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Decisional Integrity and the Business Judgment Rule, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Intercollegiate Athletics and the Assignment of Legal Rights, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Some Questions About Gender and the Death Penalty, Elizabeth Rapaport
Euthanasia and the Right to Die: Nancy Cruzan and New Mexico, Robert L. Schwartz
Professional Decisions and Ethical Values in Medical and Law Students, Robert L. Schwartz, Agnes G. Rezler, Pamela Lambert, S. Scott Obenshain, Joan McIver Gibson, and David A. Bennahum
Submissions from 1989
More Than 'Shreds and Patches': California's First Bill of Rights', Christian G. Fritz
Administrative Law, Suedeen G. Kelly and Debra A. Gilmore
Requiring a Live Client, In-House Clinical Course: A Report on the University of New Mexico Law School Experience, J. Michael Norwood
Setting Limits on Autonomy: Saving Money in an Aging Society, Robert L. Schwartz
There Is No Archbishop of Science - A Comment on Elliot's Toward Incentive-Based Procedure: Three Approaches for Regulating Scientific Evidence, Robert L. Schwartz
Privacy and the Regulation of the New Reproductive Technologies: A Decision-Making Approach, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Submissions from 1988
Clean Water Act Citizens Suits After Gwaltney: Applying Mootness Principles in Private Enforcement Actions, Reed D. Benson
Substantial Evidence Reconsidered: The Post-Duke City Difficulties and Some Suggestions for Their Resolution, Michael B. Browde
Chronicling a Movement for Civil Rights, James W. Ellis
If Your Client is Mentally Retarded, James W. Ellis and Ruth A. Luckasson
Judge Ogden Hoffman and the Northern District Court of California, Christian G. Fritz
A Critique of the Willful, Deliberate, and Premeditated Formula for Distinguishing between First and Second Degree Murder in New Mexico, Leo M. Romero
The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives (Book Review), Leo M. Romero
When Can the Government Issue a Retroactive Medicare Reimbursement Rule? A Preview of Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital, Robert L. Schwartz
When Must A Hospital Challenge The Medicare Reimbursement Policy?, Robert L. Schwartz
Submissions from 1987
The Index to Legal Periodicals on CD-ROM, Wilsondisc, Marsha Baum
Evidence, Richard A. Gonzales and Nikki J. Mann
Major League Baseball's Monopoly Power and the Negro Leagues, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Submissions from 1986
New Role for Nonparties in Tort Actions-The Empty Chair, Reed D. Benson
On the 'Usefulness' of Suspect Classifications, James W. Ellis
