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 2024
Don't Swab Me!: Limitations of the Genetic Information Privacy Act in the Modern Genetic Testing Landscape, Ibrahim Al-Gahmi
The Water Under the Bridge is Darkening—An Analysis of Copyright Law and the Prevalence of Copyright Trolls, Daniel Berenger-Russell
A Primary Purpose Problem: State v. Tsosie, Lana Elledge
Pro Se What?! Orders of Protection, Credible Threats to Physical Safety, and Restricting Access to Firearms, Amy J. Feagans
Navigating Murky Waters: Strengthening Water Protections in a Post-Sackett Landscape, Brittany Herrera
Settler Cannabis by Kaitlyn Reed, Danielle Lopez
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle, Luisa Sanchez-Carrera
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies by Matt Simon, Heath Skroch
Affordable Housing in Healthy Communities: Integrating Environmental Justice into the Application Criteria for Affordable Housing Tax Credits in New Mexico, Vanessa Springer
Submissions from 2023
Katz or Dogs? Why the Katz Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Test Is More Applicable to Advancing Technology than a Test Applied to Dog Sniffs, Blade M. Allen
Action is Not Activism: Moving Martinez/Yazzie v. State Forward, Griffin Arellano
New Mexico’s Public Trust is Ineffective: However, There is Hope and This Excites You., Cody Barnes
Negligent Commercial Transactions: Does New Mexico Face a Slippery Slope After Morris?, Annika Cleveland
Book Review: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town written by Colin Jerolmack, Abigail Lutz
Reaping the Rewards of Hard Work: Eliminating the New Mexico Minimum Wage Act’s Exemption for Workers Paid on a Piecework, Flat Rate, and Commission Basis, Jackie Munro-Vahey
The Outer Limits: Jury Discretion, District Court Deference, & Excessive Damages in Morga v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., Aaron Sharratt
Book Review: Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights written by Karen Bradshaw, Justin Starr
New Mexico’s Just Deserts: How the State’s Sentencing Policies Have Negatively Affected Criminal Justice, Oliver M. Stephanz
Submissions from 2022
Groundwater Law, The San Luis Valley, and Climate Change, Rachel Grabenstein
Oil’s Well That Ends Well—An Application for a New Mexico-Texas Transboundary Well and Its Implications, Molly Samsell
More Than #FREEBRITNEY: Remedying Constitutional Violations In Guardianship for People with Disabilities, Hannah Shotwell
Surviving the Field: Providing the Bare Minimum for Farmworkers in New Mexico, Annie Swift
A Deliberate Difference?: The Rights of Incarcerated Individuals Under the New Mexico State Constitution, Carson Thornton González
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers (The New Press, 2020), Deanna Warren
Submissions from 2021
Book Review: The Rule of Five, Ashlee Carrasco
Unnecessary Burdens to Post-Conviction DNA Testing: New Mexico's Post-Conviction DNA Relief Statute and Suggestions for Improvement, Samantha Catalano
Why Get a Warrant When You Can Fly Over the Wall? The Constitutionality of Aerial Surveillance without a Warrant, Royce A. Deller
Book Review: Environmental Justice in New Mexico: Counting Coup, Denisse Enriquez
Book Review: Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River, Jeffrey Hoagland
Book Review: Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources, Jacqueline Hoswell
Consumer Welfare: Would Competitive Injury Claims under the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act Actually Undermine Consumer Protection?, Raquel Koch Pinto
Better Balance: Why the Second Judicial District in New Mexico Should Prioritize Use of Preliminary Hearings, Kathryn Sears
The Stress Test: Searching for Wellbeing in Law School, Annie Swift
New Mexico’s Independent Ethics Commission and the Long Fight to Constrain Public Corruption, Lane Towery
Submissions from 2020
Not Waiting for Superman: Lessons for Unfair Practices Act Litigants From State Ex Rel. Balderas V. ITT Educational Services, Lionel Conrad Betsch
In the Matter of Anhayla H.: The Nexus Between the “Reasonable Efforts” Requirement and Incarceration, Brent Chapman
Scooting Under the Influence: Criminal Liability in the Age of Micro-Transit, Jacques Chouinard
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the River, Arrianne DePauli
The Future of Nondelegation: Resurrecting the Doctrine Though a Novel Balancing Test, Jarrod Alec Greth
Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance by Erin O’Donnell (Routledge, 202 pages; 2019), Ariel MacMillan-Sanchez
Water is for Fighting Over and Other Myths about Water in the West, Riley Norris
Death Marks the Spot: Where Presumptions Against Pretrial Release Live in New Mexico Law, and Where They Should Move, Andrew J. Pavlides
Submissions from 2019
Thank You Fossil Fuels & Good Night: The Twenty-First Century’s Energy Transition by Gregory Meehan, Rameez Burney
Constitutional Frankenstein: The Grand Jury Without Checks, Nicholas Chiado
Earth at Risk by Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana, Amy Childress
Bringing Broadband to The Desert: Rural New Mexico, Fiberoptic Cable, and Electric Utility Cooperatives, Janette A. Duran
Book Review: Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds, Victor Hall
Vertical and Horizontal Modes of Injustice in Air Pollution: a Comparison of Law and Society in China and the US, Mingjie Hoemmen
Book Review: Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power, Melanie McNett
The Silent Problem: The Implicit Personhood Determination in State V. Montoya, Erin Phillips
Deceleration: Slowing Down to Determine an Accelerated Loan’s Post Dismissal Status, Stephanie Schneider
Governing the Nile Under Climatic Uncertainty: The Need for a Climate-Proof Basin-Wide Treaty, Mahemud Eshtu Tekuya
Submissions from 2018
Eating the Ocean by Elspeth Probyn, Annie Brethour
A Lot to Digest: Advancing Food Waste Policy in the United States, Alexandra Evans and Robin Nagele
Grains by Bill Winders (Polity Press, 240 pages; 2017), Sabina Gaynor
One Drunk Driver, Shame on You, Two Drunk Drivers, Shame on Who: Reconciling the Unlawful Acts Doctrine with Comparative Negligence, Alison K. Goodwin
Amount-In-Controversy In The Tenth Circuit: Providing A Corporate Defendant Even More Power Under CAFA, Isaac Leon
Entering a Building Without Going Inside: The Implications of State v. Holt for Breaking and Entering Cases in New Mexico, Keri Rezac Thiel
Of Remand And Responsibility: Oakey v. May Maple Pharmacy and the Pharmacist’s Professional Standard of Care in New Mexico, Paul Michael Roybal
Shooting Stars and Dancing Fish: A Walk to the World We Want by Antonio A. Oposa Jr. (Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., 261 pages; 2017), Olga Starcher
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Serena R. Wheaton
Submissions from 2017
Between a Rock and an Ethical Duty: Attorney Obligations Under the Reporting Requirement of New Mexico’s Abuse and Neglect Act, Kirsten Dick
Lost in Translation: New Mexico’s Non-English Speaking Jurors and the Right to Translated Jury Instructions, Kyle Duffy
Richardson, Elmo R., The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913, Ernest A. Engelbert
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest, by Melissa Sevigny, Logan Glasenapp
Milner, J. B., Community Planning: A Casebook on Law and Administration, Ira Michael Heyman
Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water, by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter, and Kane Race, James Johnson
In the Crosshairs of Condemnation: A Look at Pre-Condemnation Planning and Publicity in Santa Fe Pacific Trust v. City of Albuquerque, Jennifer Kittleson
Officers at the Gate: Why United States v. Medina-Copete Should Be the Rule and Not the Exception, Mixcoatl Miera-Rosete
To Discipline or Not to Discipline: A Framework for New Mexico to Analyze the Ethics of Medical Marijuana Representation, Jesse Montoya
Nasty Weather and Ugly Produce: Climate Change, Agricultural Adaptation, and Food Waste, Richard Moore
Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain by ErikSwyngedouw, John Morseau
Un-PAC-ing Campaign Finance Law in New Mexico, Eric J. Orona
Water is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West, by John Fleck, Selena Sauer
Statecraft, Domestic Politics, and Foreign Policymaking: The El Chamizal Dispute, Albert E. Utton
Submissions from 2016
Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, by Lisa Breglia, McKenzie Colin
Miranda Goes to the Principal’s Office: State v. Antonio T. and Juvenile Miranda Warnings in Schools, Javier B. Garcia
Border Town Bullies: The Bad Auto Deal and Subprime Lending Problem Among Navajo Nation Car Buyers, Megan Horning
A 'Substantial and Material' Refinement of Tinker, Larissa M. Lozano
Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism by Robert Fletcher, Julianna Maes
Buying Time with Diligence: New Mexico’s Medical Malpractice Statute of Repose After Cahn v. Berryman, Dominic A. Martinez
The Science of Open Spaces: Theory and Practice for Conserving Large Complex Systems, Richard Moore
The Judicial Expansion of an Old Tool to Combat Predatory Lending in New Mexico, Adriel D. Orozco
Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico, by Christopher Boyer, Isabella Pacheco
Wolves, Courts, and Public Policy: The Children of the Night Return to the Northern Rocky Mountains, Mark Peralta-Silva
Permission to Punish: Sanctions Without Boundaries, Jaymie L. Roybal
Let’s Talk About Sex: Defining ‘Sexually Oriented or Sexually Stimulating’ Material in Sex Offender Behavioral Contracts, Ricardo F. Roybal
Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications, by Benedict Clements et al., Woody Scott
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, Rachel Woods
Submissions from 2015
Drowning in the Stream of Commerce: A Critique of Sproul v. Rob & Charles, Inc., Elliot Barela
