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Bratton Hall Renovations
and Frederick M. Hart Addition Project Update: Updated 2-19-03 Law School - Bratton Hall - Summary Report Phase I (Hart Addition) was completed in summer 2002. Phase II (Renovation of old Bratton Hall and Law Library) will completed in summer 2003. Phase I (Hart Addition) was completed in summer 2002.
The new community law clinic offices are now open! Telecom and landscaping work continues as Faculty and law students move into their new offices. The project fence has come down, returning 24 "L" zone permit and 10 disabled permit parking spaces to the law school community. Addtional L zone permit parking is availible near the Observatory at Tucker Rd and Yale Bl NE.(Please see below for new photos of the new interiors and entrances to the Law School) Phase II - Renovation of old Bratton Hall is currently in progress. Work on renovations should be completed in Summer 2003.
May 29, 2002 - Piles of old chairs clutter a corner of the Forum Room while the Bondurant Lecture Hall is gutted and modernized. The Forum Room has now been cleaned up and restored. The Law Library entrance has been relocated from the Forum Room to the face the North Golf Cource, until March 2003. Expanded Coverage (as of 5-29-02) Phase I (Hart Addition) is now done.
The Law School Groundbreaking was April 18, 2001: Press Release
Photo taken on November 20, 2001. Project Information:
The new Hart Addition
will contain 32,000 square feet of usable space. Within the addition will
be eight classrooms: three 40-person classrooms (one of which can be converted
to a courtroom); four 20-person seminar rooms; and a dedicated courtroom.
All teaching spaces will be wired for the most advanced multimedia technology,
including computer and Web connections and video conferencing.
The new media technology will permit the recording of classes and lectures through an audio/video port in each classroom. The recordings will be available for later viewing on tape or through videoconferencing or the Web. Additionally, two courtrooms will have remote controlled cameras, microphones and digital presenters. The following equipment will be added:
After the Hart Addition is completed and the clinical program moves into its new space, we will remodel the current clinic space as a new faculty and student suite. Faculty offices and student study offices will be placed around the perimeter of the area, and a garden-style student organization center will be located in the center of the space. The student organization center will provide space for a host of student organizations that serve the co- and extra-curricular needs of our diverse student body. At one end of the area, an open lounge for faculty, students and staff will be created below large windows. At the other end, there will be a new conference room. This entire area will be served by a new heating and cooling system. The renovation of Bratton Hall will also include the establishment of the "Bruce King Reading Room," in honor of the venerable three-term Governor of the State, who also served as Speaker of the State House of Representatives, and Santa Fe City Councilperson. Governor King has been involved in the development of New Mexico public policy for more than 40 years. He has donated his papers to the School of Law and will help the School raise $750,000 for the renovation of space to house the King Papers. The Bruce King Reading Room will be adjacent to the Law Library and the new faculty/student area (old clinic). It will enhance the law library's ability to become a research center dedicated to New Mexico legal and political history.
Sabra Jane Basler/Brian
Eagan MSC05 3330 1801 Roma Avenue
NE, Room 128 Telephone:
(505) 277-7590
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The new wing features sky lit hallways and and an extensive amount of
windows for each office, seminar room, and the new courtroom. Some offices
have mountain views, while the courtroom faces the North Golf Course.
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ADA accessible, disabled permit only parking spaces are availible at the
new barrier-free entrance to the expanded community law clinic. An new
elevator provides access to the second floor of the new wing. 
The
addition provides additional modern work space for law students to work
on actual legal cases in the law clinic. All UNM law students are required
to spend at least one semseter working at a legal clinic before graduation.
New
hard wood lockers have replaced worn out metal versions. Each law student
recieves a locker.
Landscaping work continues
around all sides of Bratton Hall.
An ultramodern court
room awaits use by the NM Court of Appeals (offices located at the School
of Law) and moot court student competitions. 
Phase
1 - The Hart Addition (January 1, 2001 - May 31, 2002) 
A new computer
service center and a computer laboratory will be constructed near the
new classrooms, faculty offices, and clinic space. The computer service
center will provide interactive courses for students, judges, and lawyers
throughout New Mexico. The computer laboratory will accommodate 32 students
and will be located directly across from the computer center staff offices.
For the first
time in the history of the School of Law, student services offices will
be brought together in one location. The offices of Admissions, Financial
Aid, Registrar and Career Counseling will be located together in the Hart
Addition. The student services area will share common conference rooms
and work areas. The Hart Addition will also include adequate space for
both the Offices of Development and Alumni Affairs.
Finally,
the expansion will add space for the School of Law's copy center and multimedia
facility. The Law School produces thousands of pages of materials-for
course use, for faculty research, for continuing legal education projects,
and for administrative purposes-and it does so in-house in a space that
was originally intended for storage. With the new copy center, the Law
School will be able to return the present space to needed storage and
have a specially designed copying and printing area. 
The
Law School currently operates a multimedia studio from two storage rooms
located around its moot court room-space, which is wholly inadequate.
The Hart Addition will contain, as it must, a new, state-of-the-art, multimedia
center that will interface with the technology center to serve the entire
school.