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Policy for Thesis Honors and Award-Winning Student Scholarship
Thesis Honors and award-winning student scholarship are publishable in DSpace. Descriptions of these works will include the name of the supervising faculty member and the class for which the work was created, if any. Descriptions will carry a disclaimer about the reliability of the paper and the usual cautions about not relying on it for legal advice, and will clearly state that the work has been prepared by a student and has not undergone any type of editing or peer review.
Policy for Other Student Scholarship
The Law School limits the publication of non-Honors papers in DSpace to works that have been endorsed by a faculty member, having thereby earned the imprimatur of the Law School. The endorsing faculty member must be the same individual for whom the work was created in the first instance, and should be named in the DSpace description. In other words, a faculty member may not endorse work that was initially created under another faculty member’s supervision. Free-lance submissions are not eligible for publication in DSpace under this policy. Works that merit submission to DSpace will demonstrate significant legal analysis, either building on comprehensive legal research or being a synthesis of information across subject matter lines. While these guidelines are similar to those established for the upper-level writing requirement, this does not mean that other student work will not be considered for DSpace submission, nor does it mean that all upper-level writing requirement papers will automatically be endorsed for worldwide publication in DSpace. Non-Honors submissions will be published in a DSpace category called, "UNM Law Student Papers."
Policies adopted by Faculty Library Committee on February 12, 2008.
