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.

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Submissions from 1993

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U.S. v. Alexander: Defining and Regulating Subsistence Use of Resources among Alaska Natives, M. Lynne Bruzzese

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Finding a Proposal for Major Federal Action Consistent with the Purposes of NEPA: Does Blue Ocean Preservation Society v. Watkins Breathe New Life into the Law, Valerie Chang

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Salvaged Water: The Failed Critical Assumption Underlying the Pecos River Compact, R. Bruce Frederick

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Where Do We Stand Now - Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the Interior, Petitioner v. Defender of Wildlife, Nancy S. Grief

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Can You Say N: NIMBY, NWPA AND Nuclear Preemption, William III Mabry

Submissions from 1992

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Land Use Regulation and the Takings Clause: Are Courts Applying a Tougher Standard to Regulators after Nollan, Sandra Bailey

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EPA's CERCLA Lender Liability Proposal: Secured Creditors Hit the Jackpot, Robin A. Goble

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Administration of Reserved and Non-Reserved Water Rights on an Indian Reservation: Post-Adjudication Questions on the Big Horn River, Eric Hannum

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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

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Oklahoma and Texas v. New Mexico: A Hastily Negotiated River Compact Leads to Problems in Equitable Apportionment of the Canadian River, Joseph H. Robertson

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Boarhead Corporation v. Erickson: CERCLA Precludes the Use of Other Statues to Challenge EPA Cleanup Actions, Chris Schatzman

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Contract for Nonbeneficial Use: New Mexico Water Law is Drowned out by Contract. (Margarito Trujillo and Swope Farm and Livestock Co. v. CS Cattle Company and Eagle Nest Reservoir Corporation v. Angel Fire Corporation, 109 N.M. 705, 790 P.2d 502 (1990)), William Singdahlsen

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Standing for Environmental Groups: Procedural Injury as Injury-in-Fact, Miriam S. Wolok

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Tribes v. States: Zoning Indian Reservations, J. Bart Wright

Submissions from 1991

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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

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English v. General Electric Company: The State Right to Regulate the Nuclear Energy Industry Affirmed - Albeit Indirect, Wes Bogdan

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Consent Judgement in Environmental Lawsuits: More Than You Thought, Mitchel S. Jofuku

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Reasonable Inference of Authority to Control Hazardous Waste Disposal Results in Potential Liability: United States v. Aceto Agricultural Chemicals Corporation, Anita Letter

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Diversions of Nevada's Truckee River Foreshadow Doom for Endangered Species, Judith Luck

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Ultimate Advisor: Rights of a Downstream State under the Clean Water Act, Maria O'Brian

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Redefining Management Participation for CERCLA's Secured Lender Exemption: United States v. Fleet Factors Corps., Peter White

Submissions from 1990

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Court Picks New Test in Cotton Petroleum, Kristina Bogardus

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Look Out States...Your Environmental Liability Could Be Bigger Than You Think, Thomas L. Hagerman

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The Availability of the Affirmative Defenses of Assumption of Risk and the Sale Defense against Common Law Public Nuisance Actions: United States v. Hooker Chemicals & (and) Plastics Corp., Julie Mauer

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Transboundary Liability Goes with the Flow - Gasser v. United States: The Use and Misuse of a Treaty, Anne M. Morgan

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The Toxic Time Bomb in the Borderland: Can the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act Help, Robert Scott

Submissions from 1989

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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

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Life between the Lakes: Student's Perspective of a Summer Internship, Christopher R. Johnson

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Just Compensation for a Taking - Fractional Interests Escheated from Tribal Members to the Tribe, Hodel v. Irving, Manuel Lucero

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Pueblo Indian Water Rights: Overview and Update on the Aamodt Litigation, Ed Newville

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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

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State Control of Mining on Federal Land: Environmental or Land Use Regulation, Renee Allee Black

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Amoco v. Gambell: Aboriginal Rights on the Outer Continental Shelf: Reopening Alaska Native Claims, Bruce L. Brown

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Breach of an Interstate Water Compact: Texas v. New Mexico, Charlotte Benson Crossland

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Preemption of Private Remedies in Interstate Water Pollution Disputes: International Paper Company v. Oullette, Stacey Goodwin

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Abandonment of Hazardous Waste Sites in the Course of Bankruptcy Proceedings, Christina Hendrickson

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Where is the Supreme Court Heading in Its Taking Analysis and What Impact Will This Direction Have on Municipalities, Lane Horder

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Right to Trial by Jury in an Action for Civil Penalties and Injunctive Relief under the Clean Water Act, Barbara L. Lah

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Constitutionality of Educational Land Grants and Mississippi State Property Interests under Review in Papasan v. Allain, Marla Valdez

Submissions from 1987

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The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act: Striking the Balance in Favor of Customary and Traditional Subsistence Uses by Alaska Natives, Karen J. Atkinson

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Mines and Minerals - A Mineral Lessee's Rights and Obligations in New Mexico, Pamela S. Bacon

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New York v. Shore Reality, Nicholas Cullander

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Sierra Club v. Block, Wilderness Water Rights Protected Where Not in Conflict with Purposes of National Forest in Colorado, Hugh W. Dangler

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International Regulation of Whaling: The United States' Compromise, Susan Geha

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Transboundary Waste Dumping: The United States and Mexico Take a Stand, Denise Maes

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Section 119 of the Clean Air Act and Phelps Dodge Reduction Works: A Case Study of EPA Inaction, Thomas U. White

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South Carolina v. Catawba - A State's Statute of Limitations Found Applicable to an Eastern Tribe's Land Claim, Samuel Winder

Submissions from 1986

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Regulation of Electric Utilities and Affiliated Coal Companies - Determining Reasonable Expenses, Jane Marx

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Locke v. U.S., Substantive Due Process, Compulsory Abandonment and Forfeiture of Mining Interests; Claimants Locked Out, David L. Skinner

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Wilson v. Block, Mary H. Smith

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Texas Groundwater Legislation: Conservation of Groundwater or Drought by Process, Bonnie M. Stepleton

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On-Reservation Treaty Hunting Rights: Abrogation v. Regulation by Federal Conservation Statutes - What Standard, Jana L. Walker

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Reformation of the Burden of Proof, Deborah Wollen

Submissions from 1985

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National Security and the National Environmental Policy Act, Don Bruckner

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NEPA's Worst Case Analysis Requirement: Cornerstone or Stumbling Block, Diane P. Donaghy

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Fifth Circuit Expands Not Substantially Developed Exception to FERC Jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act of 1938, Dale Eppler

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The History and Adjudication of the Common Lands of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants, Placido Gomez

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Sixth Circuit Narrows Definition of Wetlands for Purposes of Corps of Engineer's Jurisdiction, Cheryl Jones

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State Immunity from the Dormant Commerce Clause: Extension of the Market-Participant Doctrine from State Purchase and Sale of Goods and Services to Natural Resources, Stephanie Landry

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Indian Water Law: The Continuing Jurisdictional Nightmare, Marte Lightstone

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Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff a New Slant on Social Legislation: Taking from the Rich to Give to the Well-to-DO, Susan Lourne

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Is There a Future for Proposed Water Uses in Equitable Apportionment Suits, Ann Macon McCrossen

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International Law—Delimitation of Maritime Boundarie, Paul D. McHugh

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Natural Gas Pipelines and Eminent Domain: Can a Public Use Exist in a Pipeline, David Lee Sanders

Submissions from 1982

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EPA Enjoined from Using Contractors to Inspect Emission Sources, Kim A. Griffith

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Federal Water Pollution Control Act's Notice Requirement Liberally Construed, Jennifer Pruett

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Percentage Depletion Allowance Not Dependent on Duration of Lease Interest Tax Law, Jay D. Rosenblum

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No Search Warrant Needed for Unannounced Stone Quarry Inspections, John A. Stanley

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Municipality's Aircraft Noice Control Ordinances Upheld, Raymond T. Van Arnam