Institute for Ethics
UNM's Health Sciences Center

Advancing Ethics Education, Service, and Scholarship


Eva Orlebeke Caldera, J.D.

Eva Caldera, J.D., is Associate Director of the Institute for Ethics and Research Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico, School of Law. Her teaching and research interests include bioethics, neuroethics, ethics and technology, and ethics education. She also serves as a member of the Human Research Review Committee at the UNM Health Sciences Center. Before coming to UNM, she spent eight years in private law practice representing clients in a variety of matters involving litigation, labor, insurance, the environment, education and other issues.  Both her law degree and her undergraduate degree in philosophy are from Harvard University.

Email: ecaldera@salud.unm.edu