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Two New Faculty to Join Colorado Law

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:42:44 +0000

Two New Faculty to Join Colorado Law Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/30/2023 - 15:42

Faculty whose expertise includes constitutional and immigration law and technology law and policy will join the University of Colorado Law School this August.

Lolita Buckner Inniss, Dean and Provost’s Professor of Law, announced the appointment of two professors to Colorado Law’s full-time faculty: Pratheepan Gulasekaram and Blake Reid '10.

“To say we are merely 'happy' to welcome these fine scholars and teachers to our faculty would be an understatement,” said Dean Inniss. “Each of these individuals brings with them remarkable intellect, teaching prowess, and commitment to their students. We are looking forward to sharing more exciting hiring news in the coming months!”

Meet Colorado Law’s newest professors:

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Highly esteemed constitutional and immigration law scholar, Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram, will join the Colorado Law faculty as Professor of Law in August. Professor Gulasekaram’s research focuses on the constitutional rights of noncitizens and federalism concerns in immigration law. He is co-author of the leading immigration casebook used in law schools (Immigration & Citizenship: Process and Policy (West Academic 9th Ed. 2021)). His book, The New Immigration Federalism, provides an in-depth empirical and theoretical analysis of the resurgence of state and local immigration lawmaking. He has also extensively explored the relationship between the Second Amendment and immigrants, as a way of understanding constitutional protections for noncitizens. In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Gulasekaram frequently comments on constitutional and immigration developments for national media outlets.

Professor Gulasekaram has taught at Santa Clara University School of Law since 2007. He has also taught as Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, Berkeley Law School, University of California Berkeley, and as Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law. Prior to academia, he was a litigation associate with O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Susman Godfrey LLP, and served as judicial clerk to Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He dedicates his spare time to improving healthcare access for children in under-resourced communities through a non-profit organization he co-founded (www.wciprojects.org).

Professor Gulasekaram graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts and went on to earn his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School.

Blake Reid '10

Already a valued and highly respected member of the Colorado Law community, Professor Blake Reid ’10 will be transitioning from his role as Clinical Professor and Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic to Associate Professor of Law on the research faculty. Professor Reid will continue to serve as a faculty director at the Silicon Flatirons Center.

Professor Reid studies, teaches, and practices in the intersection of law, policy, and technology. In his new role, he will continue to teach Telecom Law and Policy, Introduction to Intellectual Property, and other courses in Colorado Law’s technology and intellectual property curriculum.

Prior to joining Colorado Law, Reid was a staff attorney and graduate fellow in First Amendment and media law at the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law. He also served as a law clerk for Justice Nancy E. Rice on the Colorado Supreme Court.

Reid holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Colorado, ��«��Ƶ in Computer Science, a Juris Doctor from Colorado Law, and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University.

Faculty whose expertise includes constitutional and immigration law and technology law and policy will join the University of Colorado Law School this August.

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Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:27:02 +0000

Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/19/2022 - 12:27

Q&A with Professor Ahmed White, whose new book gives a dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day.

Earlier in his career, Professor Ahmed White's research focused heavily on the fate of rule of law norms and the rule of law concept in capitalist society, and on the role of criminal law and punishment as mechanisms of social control of the working class. More recently, Professor White's scholarship has taken a more definite historical turn.

Much of his work concerns the history of law and labor relations from the early Twentieth Century through the New Deal period, as well as the viability of a functional system of labor rights in liberal society. He is one of the country's leading experts on the history of labor repression, which is a major subject of his two acclaimed books, “The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America” (Oakland: University of California, 2016) and “Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers” (Oakland, University of California, 2022).

In “Under the Iron Heel”, Professor White documents the torrent of legal persecution and extralegal, sometimes lethal violence that shattered the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In so doing, he reveals the remarkable courage of those who faced this campaign, lays bare the origins of the profoundly unequal and conflicted nation we know today, and uncovers disturbing truths about the law, political repression, and the limits of free speech and association in class society.

On January 30, 2023 the International Labor History Association announced that "Under the Iron Heel" had won its Book of the Year Award for 2022, shared with another publication.

White, who is the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law, sat down with the law school’s Robyn Munn to chat about “Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers”.

RM: Thanks so much for sharing your time and expertise with us, Professor White!

AW: It’s my pleasure. Shall we get started?

RM: Yes, please! For those of us without much previous knowledge of the IWW and its role in American history, would you mind summarizing what makes this organization and the campaign against it different from other labor unions?

AW: That’s a great question, as it goes to a main reason I wrote this book, which was to tell a largely forgotten story about forgotten people and what they endured. The IWW was, in fact, the most radical labor organization of any real consequence in American history, and besides that, one of the most principled and audacious. It did not want simply to improve working conditions, it wanted to change the world. In the words of the great novelist, James Jones, who seemed to understand the union’s legacy better than just about anyone and wrote this decades after the union’s demise, the IWW and its members had a “vision we don’t possess.”

Precisely because of this, the IWW was probably subjected to more sustained and intensive repression than any organization, labor union or otherwise, in our country’s history. Its members, the “Wobblies,” as everyone called them, suffered more for their political beliefs and commitments than almost anyone. And they bore this with unsurpassed courage and grace. To my mind, this was something that was not fully documented and needed to be documented, if only to give context to all these tired stories nowadays about some one-time “activist,” often a lawyer or politician long since promoted to the ranks of the respectable, who spent a night in jail or lost some friends or a fancy job. If you really want to know something about bravery and sacrifice in the service of principle, or about what this country’s done to people who actually challenged the interests of the powerful, I say read this book.

RM: I’m looking forward to digging in to my copy. In your Jacobin interview with Peter Cole, you describe the IWW’s vision of unionism as reaching “across the divides of race, ethnicity, and gender.” Considering the period, this seems remarkable and maybe even anachronistic. Was it? If so, would you mind elaborating on this aspect of the IWW’s vision?

AW: The union’s vision certainly was remarkable. This was the time of Jim Crow, of genuine, comprehensive white supremacy and of something that closely resembled actual patriarchy, not just the vestiges of these systems that so preoccupy people nowadays. In the early twentieth century, most American institutions, including the American Bar Association, virtually all of the law firms, many of the churches and civic clubs, the military, and also the big universities, for instance, were entirely segregated; and segregation was aggressively, sometimes violently enforced. But this union boldly defied all of that, challenging these cultures of racism and sexism and the laws and customs that embodied and sustained them—and did so, I might add, at further costs to its reputation and to the safety and security of its members.

As it happens, most of the union’s members were white men, which reflected basic realities about the American working class a century ago as well as where and how the union was able to organize. But its ranks were still notably diverse. It organized significant numbers of women and blacks and many ethnic Europeans who were hardly considered white back then. Moreover, among its top organizers were, for instance, a woman named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a black man named Ben Fletcher, and a gay white man named Charles Ashleigh, who was later the romantic partner of Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay. All three were arrested for their involvement in the IWW, in Flynn’s case many times; and Fletcher and Ashleigh were sent to federal prison.

RM: Another line from the Jacobin piece really stuck with me. You wrote, “Much of the vigilantism the Wobblies endured was sanctioned by police and government officials, and much of the legal repression they faced was hardly within the four corners of the law anyway — which helps prove the broader point that law and legal process are not alternatives to violence but instead different means of imposing violence.”

Would you mind sharing a little more about how the law was used to impose violence against the IWW and its members? Did capitalists and law enforcement justify their actions using the argument that legal processes are an alternative to violence?

AW: The law was used to put roughly 500 IWWs in federal and state prisons and tens of thousands of them in local jails. This wasn’t an accident or a perversion of legal process: it was in line with the express purposes of the law, including statutes, like Title I of the Espionage Act and some twenty state criminal syndicalism laws, that were written specifically to criminalize membership in the IWW. And this was done with the full support of the courts, including quite a few progressive judges. The main justification behind all of this was the notion that the IWW was a seditious and criminal organization bent on destruction and intent on undermining the war against Imperial Germany, abetting a Bolshevik revolution, fomenting race riots, and bringing down capitalism itself. In fact, as many people involved in this campaign knew, all of these justifications, except for the last one, were untrue. But this didn’t matter.

In response to the second question, I’d say that the progressives, who were actually in the forefront of this campaign at every level, were, like their descendants today, enamored of the law and inclined to destroy the IWW by lawful means. But when such means were not availing, they were very quick to resort to extralegal measures, including vigilantism. In November 1916, for instance, it was the progressive sheriff of Everett, Washington who led an armed mob of 200 in a murderous attack on a boatload of Wobblies that killed at least six of them.

RM: And was the law ever successfully wielded by the Wobblies in their defense or in pursuit of their goals?

AW: The Wobblies were fairly unique among leftists in not trying to turn the law against their adversaries. They saw the law as nothing but a tool of the ruling class, and saw the repression they experienced, which they endured with such great courage, as confirmation of this judgment. I much admire this about the Wobblies. The union did engage lawyers at trial and on appeal, but few Wobblies put much faith in this, and they were right, as the only thing that really ended all the repression was their union’s eventual destruction.

RM: On a slightly different note, those of us who have been following news of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago suit and the January 6 investigations have found ourselves familiar with terms like sedition and the Espionage Act. Do you see any parallels in how these laws were applied to the Wobblies and how they are being utilized in today’s political landscape? Any striking differences?

AW: Needless to say, there are some fundamental differences between the IWW and the participants in the January 6 affair, let alone Donald Trump. But you’re right to ask these questions, as a lot of what’s happened in recent years, including attempts to prosecute people involved in January 6 or whatnot, raises interesting and, frankly, very troubling questions about the proper extent of the Espionage Act and the sedition laws, about the ease with which all kinds of people, including today’s liberals, feel they can justify repression when it suits their purposes and aligns with their vision, and ultimately about the limits of what some have called “political justice.”

Right after January 6, there was among liberals a zeal, at times almost a frenzy, to break out these laws and start throwing people into prison. And much about this really troubles me, as it seems too similar to the persecution of the Wobblies in its confident lack of restraint and the willingness to persecute the weak as well as the powerful. I don’t feel that way because I sympathize with the goals behind January 6, as I certainly don’t; or because I discount what happened that day, which was not trivial. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t notice some worrying parallels. And of course, you needn’t look at January 6 or at Donald Trump and his supporters to find people to worry about. What about Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, who helped expose outrageous, criminal conduct on the part of our government and, in payment for this, face exile, jail, and prosecution under the Espionage Act if they ever end up back in this country? Or the condemnation, not so long ago, of Civil Rights, Native American, and environmental activists as dangerous seditionists? Or, for that matter, the likely fate of the next organization that, like the IWW a hundred years ago, really seems poised to challenge the allocation of wealth and power in this country?

RM: It seems we today have much to learn from the Wobblies, their vision, and their downfall. Thanks so much for sharing with us here and for putting this remarkable scholarship out into the world.

Interested in reading Professor White's latest? Head to the University of California Press's site, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble to order your copy.

Article was updated on Feb. 15, 2023 to reflect that the International Labor History Association named "Under the Iron Heel" its 2022 Book of the Year.

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Colorado Law Ranks in Top 30 Law Schools for Scholarly Impact

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:55:38 +0000

Colorado Law Ranks in Top 30 Law Schools for Scholarly Impact Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/01/2018 - 17:55

The University of Colorado Law School came in at No. 29 in a recent study ranking the top third of ABA-accredited law school faculties based on scholarly impact.

The study, completed by University of St. Thomas School of Law Professor Gregory Sisk and colleagues, considered mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship from 2013-17. The most highly cited Colorado Law faculty are S. James Anaya, Paul Campos, Aya Gruber, Melissa Hart, Christopher Mueller, Helen Norton, Scott Peppet, Pierre Schlag, Andrew Schwartz, and Phil Weiser.

“In addition to being innovative and passionate teachers, the faculty at Colorado Law are prolific legal scholars and social commentators. Their path-breaking scholarship helps to ensure that law is proving true to its function to serve society, and in some cases challenging the law to shift. I am proud to see that work recognized in these rankings,” said S. James Anaya, dean and University Distinguished Professor.

The top 30 law schools based on scholarly impact are:
1. Yale University
2. Harvard University
3. University of Chicago
4. New York University
5. Columbia University
6. Stanford University
7. University of California, Berkeley
8. Duke University
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. Vanderbilt University
11. University of California, Los Angeles
12. University of California, Irvine
13. Cornell University
14. University of Michigan
14. Northwestern University
16. George Washington University
16. University of Virginia
16. Georgetown University
19. University of Texas, Austin
19. George Mason University
21. University of Minnesota
21. Washington University, St. Louis
23. University of California, Davis
23. University of St. Thomas
23. University of Southern California
26. University of Notre Dame
27. Boston University
28. College of William & Mary
29. University of Colorado, ��«��Ƶ
29. Florida State University
29. Fordham University

The list of the top 50 schools is available on Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, and the full report is available on SSRN.

The University of Colorado Law School came in at No. 29 in a recent study ranking the top third of ABA-accredited law school faculties based on scholarly impact.

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Amid Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Skinner-Thompson Talks LGBTQ Rights in Taiwan

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:47:26 +0000

Amid Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Skinner-Thompson Talks LGBTQ Rights in Taiwan Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:47

Associate Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2018 to present his scholarship surrounding LGBTQ rights and privacy law. The lectures, entitled “The First Queer Right” and “Privacy as Resistance,” were delivered at Shih Hsin University and National Taiwan University (NTU), respectively, and were based on his articles "The First Queer Right" (Michigan Law Review) and "Performative Privacy" (UC Davis Law Review).

The trip was preceded by the historic May 2017 decision of Taiwan’s Constitutional Court, which ruled that it is against the constitution to prevent same-sex individuals from getting married, providing the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan’s principal legislative body) two years to implement the decision. This would make Taiwan the first Asian jurisdiction to allow same-sex marriage.

Professor Yichien Chen of Shih Hsin University and Professor Ching-yi Liu of NTU arranged the visit, where, in addition to delivering lectures on his scholarship, Skinner-Thompson met with a mix of academics, NGO advocates, and students. The trip provided Skinner-Thompson, whose research focuses on constitutional law, LGBTQ rights, and privacy law, the opportunity to discuss the different legal hurdles facing LGBTQ communities in each country.

Skinner-Thompson met separately with legislator Mei-Nu Yu, who has supported legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, and several justices of the Constitutional Court, including the Honorable Chief Justice and President of Judicial Yuan Tzong-Li Hsu, and Justices Jau-Yuan Hwang, Sheng-Lin Jan, and Beyue Su Chen.

“It was a real honor and inspiration to learn from so many dedicated advocates working to improve the conditions for LGBTQ people in Taiwan,” Skinner-Thompson said. “It was so meaningful to learn about and compare Taiwan’s struggle for LGBT equality with that of the United States.”

Skinner-Thompson's scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Washington Law Review, and Columbia Law Review Online, and he is the editor and contributing author of AIDS and the Law (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed., 2015), one of the leading resources in the field. His shorter work has appeared in Slate, Salon, The New Republic, Muftah, and elsewhere.

Associate Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2018 to present his scholarship surrounding LGBTQ rights and privacy law.

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Mart Wins Law Library Journal Article of the Year

Anonymous — Wed, 02 May 2018 16:06:23 +0000

Mart Wins Law Library Journal Article of the Year Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/02/2018 - 10:06

An article written by Susan Nevelow Mart, associate professor and director of the William A. Wise Law Library, received the Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Law Libraries.

Her winning article, “The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal (Re)Search,” examines how the world of legal research is influenced by the biases and assumptions held by the teams of humans that construct the algorithms fueling such research. Read it here.

Mart, a three-time winner of the Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award, first won for her 2004 article, “Protecting the Lady from Toledo: Post-USA Patriot Act Electronic Surveillance at the Library.” She was honored again in 2006 for “Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed From the Internet be Reclaimed?”

The AALL awards program was established to publicly recognize the achievements of law librarians for their service to the profession and contributions to legal literature and materials.

Mart joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2011. Her scholarly and teaching interests center on legal informatics.

An article written by Susan Nevelow Mart, associate professor and director of the William A. Wise Law Library, received the Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Law Libraries. Mart is a three-time recipient of this award.

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Gerding Included in Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2017

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:20:33 +0000

Gerding Included in Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2017 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/25/2018 - 10:20

An article co-authored by Professor Erik Gerding was selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2017. The list was compiled through a survey of law professors across the nation teaching in this area. More than 565 articles published and indexed in legal journals during 2017 were considered, with the results appearing in an upcoming issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator.

Gerding’s article with Georgetown University Law Center’s Anna Gelpern, “Inside Safe Assets,” was published in the Yale Journal on Regulation. Read it here.

The Corporate Practice Commentator, edited by Professor Robert Thompson of Georgetown University Law Center, seeks to compile the best corporate and securities law articles published in a given year.

Gerding joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2011. He serves as a professor, associate dean for academic affairs, and a Wolf-Nichol Fellow. His research interests include securities, banking law, the regulation of financial markets, products, and institutions, payment systems, and corporate governance.

An article co-authored by Professor Erik Gerding was selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2017.

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Desautels-Stein Publishes Two Books with Cambridge University Press

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:05:57 +0000

Desautels-Stein Publishes Two Books with Cambridge University Press Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/10/2018 - 09:05

Associate Professor Justin Desautels-Stein recently published two new books that draw on his background and expertise in critical legal studies and contemporary legal thought.

The first is a monograph, The Jurisprudence of Style: A Structuralist History of American Pragmatism and Liberal Legal Thought. The product of research going back to Desautels-Stein’s studies in graduate school, The Jurisprudence of Style offers a fully developed account of how to understand critical legal studies today. The target of that redevelopment is what Desautels-Stein calls the legal structure of American Pragmatism.

Bernard Harcourt of Columbia University writes of The Jurisprudence of Style: “In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Justin Desautels-Stein explores, dissects, and critiques what it means to think like a lawyer in today’s hegemonic context of liberal legal thought. Drawing on art history and musicology, ranging from the anthropologist Philippe Descola to the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, from Roland Barthes to Michel Foucault, Desautels-Stein creatively reinvigorates the Harvard School of legal structuralism to expose the deep historical, structural, and conceptual illusions of contemporary pragmatic legal liberal thought.”

Along with UC Berkeley historian Christopher Tomlins, Desautels-Stein also published the edited volume, Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought. Building out of conferences held at the University of Colorado Law School and Harvard Law School, Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought brings together nearly 30 scholars from around the world in an effort to answer the question of whether “contemporary legal thought” is a meaningful category of analysis. With parallels in the historiography of whether and when “contemporary art” exists, Desautels-Stein and Tomlins elicited responses from scholars including Duncan Kennedy, Marianne Constable, Samuel Moyn, Annelise Riles, and Pierre Schlag.

This spring, Desautels-Stein presented The Jurisprudence of Style at Cornell University and in Northern Europe, visiting the Universities of Helsinki, Stockholm, and Copenhagen.

Desautels-Stein joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2009. He teaches courses on Property, Law and Economic Development, International Law, Conflict of Laws, Globalization, Critical Race Theory, and Jurisprudence. His scholarship concentrates on the history of legal thought, with special emphases on the U.S. and international relations. His current book project explores the role of racial ideology in the history of international legal thought between 1815 and the present. In June 2017, he received Colorado Law’s Gamm Justice Award for his work in progress, “The Canon Reloaded: Equality and Exclusion in the History of International Legal Thought,” which takes an historical perspective to modern controversies in international theory and practice.

Associate Professor Justin Desautels-Stein recently published two new books that draw on his background and expertise in critical legal studies and contemporary legal thought.

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Professor Sarah Krakoff Wins 2018 Hazel Barnes Prize

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:02:54 +0000

Professor Sarah Krakoff Wins 2018 Hazel Barnes Prize Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/23/2018 - 10:02

University of Colorado Law School Professor Sarah Krakoff has been named the 2018 recipient of the Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university.

Since 1992, the Hazel Barnes Prize has been awarded each year to a CU ��«��Ƶ faculty member who best exemplifies the enriching interrelationship between teaching and research and whose work has had a significant impact on students, faculty, colleagues, and the university.

Krakoff is the Raphael J. Moses Professor of Law at Colorado Law. Her areas of expertise include American Indian law and natural resources and public land law, as well as environmental justice.

Assisting indigenous communities remains central to her work and scholarship. She leads Colorado Law’s Acequia Assistance Project, which offers free legal services for low-income farmers in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Her seminar, The Law of the Colorado River, concludes with a rafting trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Krakoff has published multiple works about the areas of interest near to her heart, including American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, co-authored with Bob Anderson and Bethany Berger; Tribes, Land and Environment, co-edited with Ezra Rosser; and articles in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, as well as other law journals. She also regularly authors or co-authors amicus briefs in American Indian law and public lands cases in federal courts throughout the country and serves on the board of trustees of the Grand Canyon Trust.

Before joining the Colorado Law tenure-track faculty in 1999, Krakoff directed the American Indian Law Clinic and secured permanent university funding to ensure the clinic's future.

Krakoff earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a juris doctor from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her legal career at DNA-Peoples Legal Services on the Navajo Nation, where she initiated its Youth Law Project with an Equal Justice Works fellowship.

The prize, which will be presented at spring commencement, includes a $20,000 cash award and an engraved university medal.

The prize was established in honor of renowned philosophy Professor Emerita Hazel Barnes, who taught at CU ��«��Ƶ from 1943 to 1986 and who passed away in 2008.

Colorado Law Professor Charles Wilkinson received the Hazel Barnes award in 2002.

Read an interview with Professor Krakoff.

Learn more about the Hazel Barnes Prize and view a list of past recipients.

Professor Sarah Krakoff, known for her work centered on indigenous communities and public lands, has been tapped for the most distinguished honor a faculty member can receive from CU ��«��Ƶ.

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Spain Bradley to Speak on Diversity in International Arbitration

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:00:56 +0000

Spain Bradley to Speak on Diversity in International Arbitration Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/21/2018 - 10:00

Anna Spain Bradley, associate professor of law and assistant vice provost for faculty development and diversity, is a featured speaker at the 15th annual conference co-hosted by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and the American Society for International Law (ASIL). This year’s conference, themed “Diversity and Inclusion in International Arbitration,” will be held April 4, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Spain Bradley is a panelist on the panel entitled “Defining the Issues.” Moderated by Professor Won Kidane of Seattle University School of Law, the panel will discuss the notion that the diversity of decision-makers in international investment and high-stakes commercial arbitration matters has not kept pace with the increasing diversity of the users. The panel will closely scrutinize the causes of the continued diversity deficit in international arbitration, setting the stage for the second panel, entitled “A Critical Look at Solutions.”

This will be the first major international conference to tackle the issue of diversity and inclusion in international arbitration, with the “ambitious aim of shaping the conversation and providing practical, actionable ideas to effect positive change,” according to the event website.

A recognized scholar of international law, Spain Bradley specializes in international human rights, international dispute resolution, and peace and security. Spain Bradley received her JD from Harvard Law School and is an elected member of the American Society of International Law’s executive council.

The half-day ITA-ASIL Conference is presented annually in Washington, D.C. by the ITA Academic Council with the American Society for International Law (ASIL) immediately preceding the ASIL Annual Meeting. This conference is co-chaired by Won Kidane, Seattle University School of Law in Seattle, and Caroline S. Richard, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP in Washington, D.C. See full details and register.

Anna Spain Bradley, associate professor of law and assistant vice provost for faculty development and diversity, is a featured speaker at the 15th annual conference co-hosted by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the American Society for International Law.

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Professor Norton Featured in Chancellor’s CU ��«��Ƶ Next Tour

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:42:54 +0000

Professor Norton Featured in Chancellor’s CU ��«��Ƶ Next Tour Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:42

University of Colorado Law School Professor Helen Norton, former deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice and a leading constitutional law scholar, is among the featured presenters on the first stop of Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano’s CU ��«��Ƶ Next national tour.

The nine-stop tour launches Feb. 24 in Los Angeles and will span four years. The outreach tour aims to bring people together around shared interests, inspire creativity and collaboration and deepen partnerships.

DiStefano invites prospective students and families, friends of the university, alumni and business and community leaders to learn more about what’s on the horizon at Colorado’s flagship campus in the realms of research, innovation, culture and education. Read his message about CU ��«��Ƶ Next.

“This exciting program showcases the phenomenal breadth of academic achievement that makes CU ��«��Ƶ a top university for innovation,” said DiStefano. “We look forward to interacting with alumni, donors, parents and prospective students in cities across the U.S. beginning in Los Angeles.”

Topics to be explored in L.A. include:

Mysteries of the teenage brain Psychology Professor Marie Banich really does know how teens think. Her work at CU ��«��Ƶ's Banich Lab uses brain imaging techniques to understand the neural systems that process emotion, social information and rewards. The research illuminates the science behind “crazy” teen behavior, but also the wonderful opportunities of youth.
Poetry of pop songs Beyoncé. Radiohead. Chance the Rapper. Taylor Swift. All of these artists set words to rhythm, rhyme, and image, but their lyrics are rarely recognized as poetry. But your favorite song is—among other things—a poem. English Professor Adam Bradley invites participants to explore some of the fundamental mysteries surrounding the language of popular music. Drawing on sound and video, this session will go behind the music to reveal the magic, the mystery, and the mayhem that makes up the poetry of pop.
Government speech in the age of Twitter At what point does our government's speech threaten equality or liberty such that it offends the Equal Protection or Due Process Clauses? Professor Helen Norton holds the Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado and is a former deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. Participants will learn what the Constitution can do to prohibit our government from lying to us in the age of Twitter.
Fueling Buffs for high performance Laura Anderson, CU Athletic's director of Performance Nutrition, works with student athletes to shape their mindset when it comes to fueling for athletic performance. Anderson connects the dots between nutrition, training and performance, forging perhaps the most dynamic food conversation and health opportunity in the NCAA.

The tour programming takes a deep dive into the university’s three strategic imperatives: shaping tomorrow’s leaders, positively impacting humanity and being a top university for innovation.

Activities include: short, Ted-style talks—called Buff Talks—by faculty and students who are breaking the boundaries in research, arts and culture. In addition, there will be interactive kiosks where participants can chat informally with each other or campus representatives, and a range of inspiring performances. Participants will also have an opportunity to chat with the chancellor and other campus leaders.

Other CU ��«��Ƶ Next tour stops include: Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Chicago, New York City, and ��«��Ƶ.

Learn more or register by visiting the CU ��«��Ƶ Next website at www.colorado.edu/next.

Professor Helen Norton, former deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice and a leading constitutional law scholar, is among the featured presenters on the first stop of Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano’s CU ��«��Ƶ Next national tour.

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Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers

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Colorado Law Ranks in Top 30 Law Schools for Scholarly Impact

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Amid Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Skinner-Thompson Talks LGBTQ Rights in Taiwan

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Mart Wins Law Library Journal Article of the Year

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Gerding Included in Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2017

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Desautels-Stein Publishes Two Books with Cambridge University Press

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Professor Sarah Krakoff Wins 2018 Hazel Barnes Prize

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Spain Bradley to Speak on Diversity in International Arbitration

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Professor Norton Featured in Chancellor’s CU ��«����Ƶ Next Tour

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Professor Norton Featured in Chancellor’s CU ��«��Ƶ Next Tour