This collection showcases published legal scholarship by students at The University of New Mexico School of Law. Items include student publications in non-UNM journals, as well as our students who were published in the law school's journals.
Submissions from 1993
U.S. v. Alexander: Defining and Regulating Subsistence Use of Resources among Alaska Natives, M. Lynne Bruzzese
Salvaged Water: The Failed Critical Assumption Underlying the Pecos River Compact, R. Bruce Frederick
Where Do We Stand Now - Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior, Petitioner v. Defender of Wildlife, Nancy S. Grief
Can You Say N: NIMBY, NWPA AND Nuclear Preemption, William III Mabry
Submissions from 1992
Land Use Regulation and the Takings Clause: Are Courts Applying a Tougher Standard to Regulators after Nollan, Sandra Bailey
EPA's CERCLA Lender Liability Proposal: Secured Creditors Hit the Jackpot, Robin A. Goble
Role of Science in Valuing Natural Resources after State of Ohio v. Department of Interior, 880 F.2d 432 (D.C. Cir. 1989), Ellen Louderbough
Oklahoma and Texas v. New Mexico: A Hastily Negotiated River Compact Leads to Problems in Equitable Apportionment of the Canadian River, Joseph H. Robertson
Boarhead Corporation v. Erickson: CERCLA Precludes the Use of Other Statues to Challenge EPA Cleanup Actions, Chris Schatzman
Standing for Environmental Groups: Procedural Injury as Injury-in-Fact, Miriam S. Wolok
Tribes v. States: Zoning Indian Reservations, J. Bart Wright
Submissions from 1991
An Adequate EIS under NEPA: Deference to CEQ; Merely Conceptual Listing of Mitigation Leads Us to a Merely Conceptual National Environmental Policy, Jennifer R. Bartlit
Consent Judgement in Environmental Lawsuits: More Than You Thought, Mitchel S. Jofuku
Diversions of Nevada's Truckee River Foreshadow Doom for Endangered Species, Judith Luck
Ultimate Advisor: Rights of a Downstream State under the Clean Water Act, Maria O'Brian
Redefining Management Participation for CERCLA's Secured Lender Exemption: United States v. Fleet Factors Corps., Peter White
Submissions from 1990
Court Picks New Test in Cotton Petroleum, Kristina Bogardus
Look Out States...Your Environmental Liability Could Be Bigger Than You Think, Thomas L. Hagerman
Transboundary Liability Goes with the Flow - Gasser v. United States: The Use and Misuse of a Treaty, Anne M. Morgan
The Toxic Time Bomb in the Borderland: Can the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act Help, Robert Scott
Submissions from 1989
Recent Developments in the El Paso/New Mexico Interstate Groundwater Controversy - The Constitutionality of New Mexico's New Municipality Water Planning Statute, Nancy E. Hetrick
Life between the Lakes: Student's Perspective of a Summer Internship, Christopher R. Johnson
Just Compensation for a Taking - Fractional Interests Escheated from Tribal Members to the Tribe, Hodel v. Irving, Manuel Lucero
Pueblo Indian Water Rights: Overview and Update on the Aamodt Litigation, Ed Newville
Maine v. Taylor - Natural Resource Statutes against the Commerce Clause or When is a Hughes Not a Hughes but a Pike, D. Lee Shields
Submissions from 1988
State Control of Mining on Federal Land: Environmental or Land Use Regulation, Renee Allee Black
Amoco v. Gambell: Aboriginal Rights on the Outer Continental Shelf: Reopening Alaska Native Claims, Bruce L. Brown
Breach of an Interstate Water Compact: Texas v. New Mexico, Charlotte Benson Crossland
Preemption of Private Remedies in Interstate Water Pollution Disputes: International Paper Company v. Oullette, Stacey Goodwin
Abandonment of Hazardous Waste Sites in the Course of Bankruptcy Proceedings, Christina Hendrickson
Where is the Supreme Court Heading in Its Taking Analysis and What Impact Will This Direction Have on Municipalities, Lane Horder
Right to Trial by Jury in an Action for Civil Penalties and Injunctive Relief under the Clean Water Act, Barbara L. Lah
Constitutionality of Educational Land Grants and Mississippi State Property Interests under Review in Papasan v. Allain, Marla Valdez
Submissions from 1987
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act: Striking the Balance in Favor of Customary and Traditional Subsistence Uses by Alaska Natives, Karen J. Atkinson
Mines and Minerals - A Mineral Lessee's Rights and Obligations in New Mexico, Pamela S. Bacon
New York v. Shore Reality, Nicholas Cullander
Sierra Club v. Block, Wilderness Water Rights Protected Where Not in Conflict with Purposes of National Forest in Colorado, Hugh W. Dangler
International Regulation of Whaling: The United States' Compromise, Susan Geha
Transboundary Waste Dumping: The United States and Mexico Take a Stand, Denise Maes
Section 119 of the Clean Air Act and Phelps Dodge Reduction Works: A Case Study of EPA Inaction, Thomas U. White
South Carolina v. Catawba - A State's Statute of Limitations Found Applicable to an Eastern Tribe's Land Claim, Samuel Winder
Submissions from 1986
Regulation of Electric Utilities and Affiliated Coal Companies - Determining Reasonable Expenses, Jane Marx
Locke v. U.S., Substantive Due Process, Compulsory Abandonment and Forfeiture of Mining Interests; Claimants Locked Out, David L. Skinner
Wilson v. Block, Mary H. Smith
Texas Groundwater Legislation: Conservation of Groundwater or Drought by Process, Bonnie M. Stepleton
On-Reservation Treaty Hunting Rights: Abrogation v. Regulation by Federal Conservation Statutes - What Standard, Jana L. Walker
Reformation of the Burden of Proof, Deborah Wollen
Submissions from 1985
National Security and the National Environmental Policy Act, Don Bruckner
NEPA's Worst Case Analysis Requirement: Cornerstone or Stumbling Block, Diane P. Donaghy
Fifth Circuit Expands Not Substantially Developed Exception to FERC Jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act of 1938, Dale Eppler
The History and Adjudication of the Common Lands of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants, Placido Gomez
Sixth Circuit Narrows Definition of Wetlands for Purposes of Corps of Engineer's Jurisdiction, Cheryl Jones
Indian Water Law: The Continuing Jurisdictional Nightmare, Marte Lightstone
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff a New Slant on Social Legislation: Taking from the Rich to Give to the Well-to-DO, Susan Lourne
Is There a Future for Proposed Water Uses in Equitable Apportionment Suits, Ann Macon McCrossen
International Law—Delimitation of Maritime Boundarie, Paul D. McHugh
Natural Gas Pipelines and Eminent Domain: Can a Public Use Exist in a Pipeline, David Lee Sanders
Submissions from 1982
EPA Enjoined from Using Contractors to Inspect Emission Sources, Kim A. Griffith
Federal Water Pollution Control Act's Notice Requirement Liberally Construed, Jennifer Pruett
Percentage Depletion Allowance Not Dependent on Duration of Lease Interest Tax Law, Jay D. Rosenblum
No Search Warrant Needed for Unannounced Stone Quarry Inspections, John A. Stanley
Municipality's Aircraft Noice Control Ordinances Upheld, Raymond T. Van Arnam
