Rate My Professor Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore, Professor of Law and Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law since 1995, holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1983 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987. Her early career included research assistance for the Refugee Policy Group and field research on Salvadoran refugees in Honduras for Catholic Relief Services. From 1991 to 1993, she served as Associate Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Conakry, Guinea, promoting the rights of Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees. From 1993 to 1995, as Associate Legal Officer in Washington, D.C., she provided guidance to U.S. officials on refugee policies, advocated for protections for refugee women and HIV-positive refugees, and conducted training sessions on refugee law. Additional roles encompassed clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, coordinating the International Legal Defense Project, and visiting professorships at West Virginia University College of Law and City University of New York Law School. As Fulbright Senior Scholar in 2002-2003, she taught international law at the University of Dar es Salaam and facilitated human rights workshops for Burundian refugees in Tanzania. She directed UNM’s Peace Studies program from 2004 to 2006 and maintains affiliations with Latin American Studies and interdisciplinary peace initiatives.

Moore’s research focuses on refugee law, international human rights law, humanitarian law, transitional justice, and women’s grassroots peacebuilding in war-affected communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone. She teaches courses such as Contracts, International Law, Human Rights I and II, Refugee and Asylum Law, Immigration Law, and Transitional Justice. Key publications include Women’s Work: Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025), Humanitarian Law in Action within Africa (Oxford University Press, 2012), and co-authored Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach (sixth edition forthcoming 2025, Carolina Academic Press). Selected articles are “Restorative Justice for Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence” (forthcoming Southwestern Law Review, 2026/27), “The Alchemy of Exile: Strengthening a Culture of Human Rights in the Burundian Refugee Camps in Tanzania” (Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 2008), and “R2P=MDGs: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect through the Millennium Development Goals” (Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 2012). Honors include the Pamela Minzner Chair in Professionalism (2019), Ron and Susan Friedman Award for Faculty Excellence (2012), Fulbright Scholar (2002-03), and multiple teaching awards including Law School Alumni/ae Award for Teaching Excellence (1999-2000).