The University of New Mexico's (UNM) decision to migrate its School of Law's three law journals to the UNM Digital Repository has increased accessibility for legal scholars' work worldwide. This transition has also allowed an analysis of which articles are most impactful based on download statistics.
Within a collection exceeding 140,000 articles, one standout piece is by Heidi Todacheene, a School of Law alumna from the class of 2015. Her article, "She Saves Us from Monsters: The Navajo Creation Story and Modern Tribal Justice," has been downloaded over 170,000 times. This reflects a significant interest in tribal law scholarship.
Professor Emerita Sherri Burr holds the record for the highest number of downloads with her article "The Free Blacks of Virginia: A Personal Narrative, A Legal Construct," surpassing 5,000 downloads. Among current faculty members, Professor Joshua Kastenberg's work titled "Tactical Level PSYOP and MILDEC Information Operations: How to Smartly and Lawfully Prime the Battlefield" has garnered more than 2,000 downloads.