Fall 2020 Amicus

Fall 2020 Amicus Now Available

Nov. 10, 2020

This special issue, which focuses on the Anti-Racism and Representation Initiative, features essays from alumni and leaders in Colorado's legal community on why representation matters in legal education and the profession.

Phil Weiser

Register for Nov. 12 Virtual Panel Discussion: Back to the Future: Lessons for Our Emerging Challenges From Science Fiction and History

Nov. 3, 2020

Register for the John ('74) and Katherine Rosenbloom Endowed Lectureship Series on Thursday, Nov. 12, 5:15-6:30 p.m. MDT. Moderated by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.

Scott Skinner-Thompson

Scott Skinner-Thompson Publishes Book: Privacy at the Margins

Oct. 26, 2020

In a new book, Associate Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson explores how limited legal protections for privacy lead directly to concrete, material harms for many marginalized communities, including discrimination, harassment, and violence.

Carla Fredericks

Clinical Professor Carla Fredericks Named Executive Director of Global Foundation

Oct. 20, 2020

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Law School Clinical Professor Carla Fredericks has been named the next executive director of The Christensen Fund, a grantmaking foundation that supports Indigenous peoples and local communities in their efforts to advance biocultural diversity, effective January 1, 2021.

Wolf Law Building

Provost Announces Search Committee for New Law Dean

Oct. 19, 2020

CU Boulder Provost Russell Moore has named the members of the committee to conduct a national search for a new dean for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Law School to succeed outgoing dean James Anaya. Moore has named Michele Moses, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs, to head the search committee.

Voting

Law ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Help Undergraduates Get out the Vote

Oct. 14, 2020

To encourage ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder undergraduates to cast their ballots this November, a team of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Law School students will visit hundreds of classes virtually to instruct students how to register to vote and cast a ballot in Colorado.

Bill Pizzi

Pizzi's New Book Highlights Supreme Court's Role in Mass Incarceration

Oct. 8, 2020

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Law School Professor Emeritus Bill Pizzi has released a new book that illuminates the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the rise in U.S. incarceration rates.

Zak Yacoob

Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Zak Yacoob Delivers 2020 John Paul Stevens Lecture

Sept. 30, 2020

Zak Yacoob, a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist, will deliver the ninth annual John Paul Stevens Lecture virtually at noon MT on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Justice Yacoob is the first international justice to present the Stevens Lecture, which is free and open to the public. Justice Yacoob will share his thoughts on the role of the courts, social justice, and racial equality.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

White Center Honors Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Constitution Day Event

Sept. 23, 2020

To commemorate the life and legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, 2020, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Law School’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law held a virtual discussion with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Colorado Supreme Court Justice Melissa Hart.

Hunter Knapp and Alexia Brunet Marks

Recent Graduate, Professors Examine Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Communities

Sept. 11, 2020

A new report coauthored by postdoctoral fellow and recent graduate Hunter Knapp ('20) and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Law School Associate Professor Alexia Brunet Marks seeks to protect Colorado food workers in their workplaces as they contribute their essential labor throughout the state’s food system.

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