Byron White Center News

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper named University of Colorado Law School Professor Melissa Hart to the Colorado Supreme Court.

Jonathan Lippman, former chief judge of New York and a pioneer in addressing access to justice, will deliver the sixth annual John Paul Stevens Lecture.

On Saturday, January 28, the University of Colorado Law School welcomed approximately 60 high school students from the Denver metro area as they competed in the fourth annual Colorado Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Moot Court Competition , hosted by the Byron R. White Center . The student competitors delivered oral arguments...

Students, alumni, and local attorneys volunteer to teach lessons to high school classrooms across the state as part of the Constitution Day Project hosted by the White Center.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, appointed in 2009 as the first Hispanic member on the bench of the nation’s highest court, spoke during a fireside chat-style event to an audience of nearly 1,800 at CU Boulder’s Macky Auditorium on Sept. 2. 

 Justice Sotomayor, a self-described antsy type...

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law will host the 23rd annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference, which is open to the public, Oct. 15 and 16.

In recognition of national Constitution Day, nearly 100 students, faculty and alumni of the University of Colorado Boulder Law School will teach a lesson on the First Amendment and online bullying in high school classrooms throughout Colorado Sept. 15-26. Constitution Day is the annual commemoration of the Sept. 17, 1787,...

“The moment I got involved in the Marshall-Brennan Project , my life changed,” said Viviana Andazola, who was a 10th grade student at York International High School in the Mapleton School District during the 2011–12 academic year, the first year of Colorado Law’s Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. “I now have...

Before University of Colorado Law School students began visiting her classroom last fall, Crystal Perez, a ninth grade student at York International School in Thornton, had never been anywhere in the United States outside of Colorado and had no interest in the law. Just eight months later, Perez had earned a trip to Washington, D.C., to compete against high school students from across the country in the National Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition.

The White Center’s Colorado Law Constitution Day Project celebrated Constitution Day, September 17, by teaching high school students about the Constitution. In its second year, the Constitution Day Project, brought 80 Colorado Law students and alumni, 30 local attorneys, and several Colorado Law faculty to over 100 high school classrooms.