Published: June 29, 2023

Widely recognized for its intellectual diversity and originality, the faculty at Colorado Law encompasses an array of prominent legal scholars who are widely cited, both in academia and throughout the national media landscape. We invite you to catch up on the latest faculty publications and media mentions with this round up. 

Faculty Publications

T. Markus Funk [Colorado Law adjunct], Eugene Volokh & Andrew Boutros, The Hidden Life of Law School Adjuncts: Teaching Temps, Indispensable Instructors, Underappreciated Cash Cows, or Something Else?, previewed on the Volokh Conspiracy (forthcoming Texas L. Rev.)

Helen NortonGetting to Trustworthiness (But Not Necessarily to Trust)3 J. Free Speech Law (2023).

Andrew SchwartzInvestment Crowdfunding, Oxford University Press (2023).  

Jonathan Skinner-ThompsonTribal Air, SSRN.com, forthcoming Arizona State L.J, (June 5, 2023)

Notable Mentions, Newspaper Articles & Blogs

Douglas Beltman, Rising Colorado Law 2L, Matt Suoja, Being a Law Student at Age 60: Student at the University of Colorado Laws School Speaks About Experience, Law Week Colorado, (June 7, 2023).

Brad BernthalBernthal named executive director of Silicon Flatirons, BizWest, (June 6, 2023).

Harold Bruff, Colorado Law Professor Emeritus, Louis Jacobson, Can GOP candidates pardon Donald Trump if they win? Can Trump pardon himself?, Poynter, (June 21, 2023).

Harold Bruff, Louis Jacobson, Which of the charges against Trump are most serious? Can he still run in 2024? Poynter, (June 12, 2023).

Anne Castle, GWC, Jennifer Yachnin, Could Mother Nature cut off California’s water guarantee?; E&E News, (June 12, 2023). 

Anne Castle, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Rocky Mountain Water Woes: Colorado’s Uncertain Future, Law360, (June 21, 2023).

Violeta Chapin, Nicole C. Brambila, DACA turns 11 while under threat by the courts, Denver Gazette, (June 18, 2023).

Richard CollinsAurora Public Schools v. A.S., 2023 CO 39, (quoting Collins’ Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, (June 20, 2023).

Richard CollinsArizona v. Navajo Nation, No. 21–1484, (U.S., June 22, 2023),Gorsuch’s dissent citing Collins’ Never Construed to Their Prejudice: In Honor of David Getches, 84 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1 (2013).

Matthew R. CushingColorado Law Appellate Practicum students Jonathan Murray, Ricardo Rivera and Melpomene Vasiliou; Daniel Ducassi, Split 10th Circ. Revives Pregnant Postal Worker Disability, Law360, (June 16, 2023).

T. Markus FunkFUNK: Irresponsible Media Misinformation About Lethal Self-Defense Risks Getting People Killed,The Daily Caller, (June 9, 2023).

T. Markus Funk, Kevin Cole, Funk on the Media’s Misunderstanding of Self-Defense Law, CrimProf Blog, (June 14, 2023).

Deep Gulasekaram, Parker Yamasaki, Tatiana Flowers, & Ciara Zavala, Jared Polis isn’t going to ban guns. But that might not be the point of the Colorado Capitol sit-in, Colorado Sun, (June 6, 2023).

Douglas Kenney, Robyn White, The U.S. Rivers in Dangerous Decline, Newsweek, (June 13, 2023).

Suzette MalveauxThe destruction of Black Wall Street and its long aftermath, Washington Post, (June 19, 2023), review of Built From the Fire, see also attached PDF.

Helen Norton, Eugene Volokh, Journal of Free Speech Law: Getting to Trustworthiness (But Not Necessarily to Trust) by Prof. Helen Norton, Volokh Conspiracy, (June 2, 2023).

Helen Norton, Lawrence Solum, Norton on Trustworthiness and the Media, Legal Theory Blog, (June 21, 2023).

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