Publications - Maryam Ahranjani
Books & Book Chapters
Celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day Every Day, Not Just Sept. 17th, Pasa Por Aquí (2024).
Available at: UNM-DR
Maryam Ahranjani, The Role of the Law School Dean and Faculty in Supporting and Sustaining Ethical and Antiracist Admissions Practices, Antiracist Approaches to Admissions and Financial Aid (Jay Austin and Patricia Roberts, ed., forthcoming).
Maryam Ahranjani and Adria Kimbrough, Is Standardized Testing Antithetical to Antiracism Efforts in Law School Admissions?, Antiracist Approaches to Admissions and Financial Aid (Jay Austin and Patricia Roberts, ed., forthcoming).
Maryam Ahranjani, Public K-12 Education in the Wake of the Guatemalan Civil War and the Continuing Path to Educational Success, Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored (Russ Davidson and Leslie Blaugrund Kim, ed., 2023).
Maryam Ahranjani and J.C. Blokhuis, Purposes of Education, Legal Foundations of Education (J.C. Blokhuis, ed., 2023).
Erecting a Virtual Schoolhouse Gate, Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society (Ana Melro and Lídia Oliveira ed. 2019).
Available at: UNM-DR
Youth Justice in America (2014) (co-authored with Andrew G. Ferguson and Jamin B. Raskin).
Available at: UNM-DR
High School to Law School: Marshall-Brennan and Moot Court, The Education Pipeline to the Professions: Programs that Work to Increase Diversity (Sarah E. Redfield ed. 2012).
Available at: UNM-DR
The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project: A Case Study in Law and Social Justice, Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation: Implications for Policy and Practice (Lynn M. Nybell et al. ed. 2009).
Available at: UNM-DR
Articles
Unarresting School Safety, 25 Nev. L. J. 709 (2025).
Available at: NLJ
The Constitutional Costs Of School Policing, 72 American University Law Review 337 (2022) (co-authored with Natalie Saing).
Available at: UNM-DR
Sprinting a Marathon: Next Steps for Gender Equity in Criminal Law Employment, 106 Minnesota Law Review: Headnotes 228 (2022).
Available at: UNM-DR
The Role of Lawyers in Bridging the Gap between the Robust Federal Rights to Education and Relatively Low Education Outcomes in Guatemala, 2021 Auctoritas Prudentium 25 (2021).
Available at: UNM-DR
“ Toughen Up, Buttercup" versus #TimesUp: Initial Findings of the ABA Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, 25 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 99 (2020).
Available at: UNM-DR
School "Safety" Measures Jump Constitutional Guardrails, 44 Seattle University Law Review 273 (2020).
Available at: UNM-DR
Universities as “Sanctuaries,” 44 J. C. & U.L. 1 (2018).
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The Prisonization of America’s Public Schools: Prioritizing “Security” over Privacy, 45 Hofstra Law Review 4 (2017).
Available at: UNM-DR
Evaluating High School Students’ Constitutional and Civic Literacy: A Case Study of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project 90 Denver University Law Review 917 (2013) (co-authored with Jeffrey J. Shook and Caleb Medearis).
Available at: UNM-DR
Can They Do That to Me?! Does the 8th Amendment Protection Children’s Best Interests? 63 South Carolina Law Review 403 (2011).
Available at: UNM-DR
Mary Daly v. Boston College: The Impermissibility of Single-Sex Classes in Private Universities, 9 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 179 (2001).
Available at: UNM-DR
Bar & Trade Publications
Pulling Back the Curtain: A Follow-Up Report from the ABA Criminal Justice Section Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, CRIM. JUST. (October 2, 2021).
Available at: UNM-DR
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Women in Criminal Justice Task Force , CRIM. JUST. (October 26, 2020).
Available at: UNM-DR
Developing Youth Voices, CLEO EDGE 52 (Winter/Spring 2020).
Available at: UNM-DR
Listening Session Participants Express Feelings of Isolation – and Demonstrate Resilience, CRIM. L. 52 (Fall 2019).
Available at: Criminal Justice
What Does Immigration Status Have to do with Law School, CLEO 50 (2018).
Available at: UNM-DR
Presentations
Women's TaskForce, and Training the Next Generation of Criminal Justice Leaders, ABA CJS Fall Institute (November 19, 2020)
Abstract at: ABA CJS
Popular Press
Why are Women Lawyers Underrepresented in Criminal Justice?, TYL MAG. (March 31, 2021).
Available at: UNM-DR
Task Force Ops: Initial Findings from the Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, THE JUSTPOD (March 3, 2021).
Available at: UNM-DR
Immigration Trends in the D.C. Area and What They Mean for Public Education, THE WASHINGTON POST (July 9, 2004).
Young Lawyers Rising Podcast, Breaking Barriers: Women in Criminal Law, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (Oct. 20, 2022).
Available at: UNM-DR
Teaching Resources
We've Got Letters: Three Integrated Curriculum Guides For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program, 17 THE WASHINGTON POST (2017).
Available at: UNM-DR
Available at: We've Got Letters
National Constitution Day Teaching Modules, BAND OF RIGHTS (2005-2013).
Available at: UNM-DR
Available at: Band of Rights
In the News
- Research Highlights Vital Role Psychologists Can Play in School Safety, UCAM (June 13, 2025)
- The Struggling Sanctuary Campus Movement, Inside Higher Ed (March 24, 2025)
- New Mexico’s Reaction to Trump’s Ban on Transgender Athletes, KOB4 (Feb. 7, 2025)
- Talking to NM Democratic Delegates after Biden Leaves Race, Endorses Harris, NM Political Report (July 23, 2024)
- SCOTUS Affirms Gun Ban for Alleged Domestic Abusers, The Trace (June 21, 2024)
- With Liberty and Justice for High Schoolers, UNM Communications podcast series It's (Probably) Not Rocket Science (March 26, 2024)
- The Supreme Court Hears Arguments About Whether Trump Can Be Kept Off Presidential Ballot, LAist 89.3 (February 8, 2024)
- National Day of Racial Healing, NBC News (January 12, 2024)
- UNM Program Teaches Teens About Interacting with Police, KOB4 (January 11, 2024)
- Free Speech Experts Denounce Trump in Colorado Ballot Suit, LAW 360 (November 29, 2023)
- New Mexico's Gun Garry Ban Isn't a Longterm Solution. Here's Why. The Trace. (September 12, 2023)
- Are Hot Classrooms in New Mexico Violating State Code? KOB4 (August 4, 2023)
- How Will New Mexicans Be Affected After the Supreme Court Reduced LGBT Protections? KRQE (June 30, 2023)
- Bill Adds Another Tool to Hold People, and Electors, Accountable, The Nevada Independent (May 27, 2023)
- Michigan School District Sued for Making Boys Remove "Let's Go, Brandon" Sweatshirts, MLive (April 25, 2023)
- Edgewood Anti-Abortion Ordinance Likely to Face Challenge at NM Supreme Court, Scholar Says, Source NM (April 17, 2023)
- Why New Mexico Has One of the Highest Rates for Killings by Police, NPR (April 14, 2023)
- Conservatives' Civil Rights Complaints Target Meet Ups for Students of Color, The 74 (Feb. 7, 2023)
- These 10 Principles Will Advance Gender Equity in Criminal Legal Profession, ABA Journal, (Feb. 6, 2023)
- How the 'Rust' Settlement Could Affect Any Criminal Case, LA Times (Oct. 5, 2022).
- Law Professor Says Griffin Ruling Could Have Widespread Implications, KUNM (Sept. 6, 2022)
- Otero County Commisioners Vote to Ban Voluntary Abortions and Abortion Clinics, KOB (July 14, 2022)
- What Changes in New Mexico Now that Roe v. Wade is Overturned?, KOAT (June 24, 2022)
- Can anti-abortion state laws affect New Mexicans?, New Mexico Political Report (April 20, 2022)
- Otero County Commissioner Needs to Be Held Accountable , Santa Fe New Mexican (April 2, 2022)
- Do New Mexico County Sheriffs Have to Wear Body Cameras?, Las Cruces Sun (March 13, 2022)
- Women in Law Face 'Pervasive Sexism': Report, The Crime Report (Feb. 17, 2021)
- DA Torrez: Parents of Juan Saucedo Jr. could face charges, KOB (August 16, 2021)
- Change of venue: A fair trial in the slaying of basketball star, Santa Fe Reporter (March 3, 2021)
- Doña Ana County mandatory vaccination policy contested, KRWG (March 3, 2021)
- Many want police out of schools across NM, Albuquerque Journal (June 2020)
- When kids are threats : the assessments unfairly targeting students with disabilities, The Guardian (October 15, 2019)
- Are armed ‘guardian patriots’ at US-Mexico border breaking the law?, Newsy (May 2019)
- Attorneys General pledge to not prosecute if Roe v. Wade overturned, ThinkProgress (April 17, 2019)
- Chalk, books and metal detectors: A conversation about the ‘prisonization’ of schools, Searchlight New Mexico (March 6, 2018)
- NM law professors join opposition to Sessions at U.S. Attorney General, Public News (January 5, 2017)