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Attendance and Voting Rights at Law School Faculty Meetings

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  1. Those who have the rank of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or professor of law are entitled to attend faculty meetings and to discuss and vote upon all matters brought before the faculty regardless of whether they have tenure.
  2. Assistant and Associate deans are entitled to attend faculty meetings and to discuss and vote upon all matters brought before the faculty.
  3. The dean of the law school shall be the chairperson of all faculty meetings. In the absence of the dean, the associate dean shall conduct the meeting and be chairperson unless an acting dean has been appointed by the University. In the absence of both the dean and associate dean, the senior faculty professor with tenure shall conduct the meeting and be chairperson.
  4. The chairperson shall have the right to vote on all matters. If the chairperson engages in the discussion of any matter, he or she shall relinquish the chair at the request of any voting member of the faculty.
  5. The directors of the American Indian Law Center, the Institute of Public Law and Services, the American Indian Scholarship Program, and the secretary of faculty meetings shall be entitled to attend the faculty meetings and to discuss issues but shall have no vote unless they meet the requirements of paragraph 1. above.
  6. Visiting instructors, assistant, associate and full professors of law shall be invited to attend faculty meetings, to discuss issues, and to vote on all matters except promotion, tenure, hiring and other personnel matters.
  7. Adjunct professors, others associated with the law school on a part-time basis, those employed as attorneys or associates in or in similar positions may be invited to participate in faculty meetings.
  8. Procedures on recommending tenure, reappointment and promotion shall supersede these provisions to the extent that they are inconsistent.
  9. No voting by proxy shall be valid.

Adopted: September 25, 1972

Amended: October 4, 1976

UNM School of Law Faculty Meeting
November 20, 1972 3:30 p.m., Conference Room

Minutes

Present: Dean Hart; Associate Dean Desiderio; Assistant Dean Geer; Professors Bingaman, Daniels, Deloria, Ellis, Fink, Goldberg, MacPherson, Maxfield, Muir, Parnall, Rynoso, Romero, Teitelbaum, Utton, Waldon, R. Walker, W. Walker.

Dean Hart presiding, attention was given to the following:

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The faculty adopted the following policy for student attendance at faculty meetings:

  1. Three students, one from each class, are entitled to attend all faculty meetings and to discuss and vote upon all matters brought before the faculty.
  2. Each class shall select its representative by election. The student who receives the largest number of votes shall be the elected representative. The election shall take place as soon as possible after the beginning of each academic year.
  3. For the current academic year, each class shall elect a representative as soon as possible after the adoption of this policy.
  4. Students attending faculty meetings will be subject to the same constraints regarding confidentiality as members of the faculty.

Dean Hart commended Professor Fink for his efforts toward securing $350,000.00 of the bond issue money for law books.

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The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Louise R. Camp
Secretary

School of Law
May 5, 1986
Conference Room, 4PM

Present: Browde, Desiderio, DuMars, Ellis, W., Fink, Flickinger, Goldberg, Gonzales, Hall, Hart, Hart, Hermann, Hernandez, Johnson, Kovnat, MacPherson, Mathewson, Norwood, Occhialino, Parnall, Ragsdale, Sanders, Sedillo-Lopez, Taylor, Teitelbaum, Gomez, Minnis. Student Rep: Dunning. Curriculum Committee Member: Behling

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Upon proper motion and second, the faculty voted unanimously to extend full faculty voting privileges to Professor Emeritus Hugh Muir. By separate vote it decided, as a matter of general law school policy, to extend such privileges to all UNM emeritus law faculty.

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The meeting adjourned at 6 PM.

E.K. Fuge, Faculty Secretary