Faculty whose expertise includes legal research, human rights and technology, criminal law, and national security will join the University of Colorado Law School this August.

Lolita Buckner Inniss, Dean and Provost’s Professor of Law, is pleased to announce the appointment of three professors to Colorado Law’s full-time faculty: Shamika Dalton, Vivek Krishnamurthy, and Wadie Said join Pratheepan Gulasekaram and Blake Reid '10 as well as Maryam Jamshidi, Sarah Matsumoto, and Daria Roithmayr as Colorado Law's newest faculty.

“We are truly fortunate to welcome these wonderful scholars to our law school,” said Dean Inniss. “The future is bright at Colorado Law, and we are filled with optimism and gratitude for the knowledge and inspiration they will bring to our students and colleagues on the faculty!”

Meet Colorado Law’s newest professors:

Shamika Dalton

This August, Shamika Dalton will bring her expertise in teaching, leadership, and scholarship to Colorado Law, joining the faculty as Associate Professor and Law Library Director of the William A. Wise Law Library. Before joining CU, Dalton served as as Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Katz Law Library at University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Law (UT).

At the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Law, Dalton oversaw the daily operation of the Katz Law Library. She assisted the Associate Dean for Library and Technology Services with personnel, budget, and administrative activities for the library; taught legal research classes; lead the library’s faculty in supporting law student and faculty research; and contributed to the advancement of the profession through scholarship and professional service.

Dalton began her career as a reference librarian at the University of Florida Levin College of Law Legal Information Center in 2012 and rose through the ranks to become the Associate Director for Public Services and Professor of Legal Research. She has dedicated her research and professional service to celebrating the contributions of law librarians of color, educating the profession about the importance of racial diversity, and advocating for cultural competency in legal research instruction.

In July 2019, Dalton received the Joseph L. Andrews Award for her book, Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in the American Association of Law Libraries (2nd edition). She holds a Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Library Science, and Juris Doctor degrees from North Carolina Central University.

Vivek Krishnamurthy

In August, Vivek Krishnamurthy will join the Colorado Law Faculty as Associate Professor of Law and director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic. Krishnamurthy’s teaching, scholarship, and clinical legal practice focus on the complex regulatory and human rights-related challenges that arise in cyberspace.

Krishnamurthy currently serves as Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and Director of CIPPIC—the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. In his work, he advises governments, activists, and companies on the human rights impacts of new technologies and is a frequent public commentator on emerging technology and public policy issues.

Prior to his role at the University of Ottawa, Krishnamurthy was the Assistant Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and Counsel in the Global Business and Human Rights Practice at Foley Hoag LLP. He is a Rhodes Scholar and clerked for the Hon. Morris J. Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada upon his graduation from Yale Law School. Krishnamurthy is currently a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a Senior Associate of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an alternate member of the Global Network Initiative’s Board of Directors.

Krishnamurthy earned his Bachelor’s degree at University of Toronto, Master of Philosophy at University of Oxford, and his Juris Doctor at Yale University.

Wadie Said

A widely respected voice in criminal law, human rights, and national security law, Wadie Said will soon be joining the Colorado Law faculty as a Professor of Law.

Currently serving on the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Professor Said has also served as a visiting professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California Santa Barbara, and as an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida, where he represented one of the defendants in U.S. v. Al-Arian, a complex terrorism conspiracy case.

Professor Said’s scholarship analyzes the challenges and human rights implications of criminal prosecution and immigration enforcement in several areas of law that touch on national security and foreign policy. His book, Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions, the first comprehensive legal analysis of the criminal terrorist prosecution in the United States, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, immigration law, and seminars on international human rights law and counterterrorism.

Upon graduation from law school, Said served as law clerk to Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and as a litigation associate in the New York office of Debevoise and Plimpton. There, he helped coordinate the firm's pro bono political asylum program. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Board of Editors of Amerasia Journal.

Professor Said is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.