Externships

Phil Weiser, Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado and Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program, will discuss and sign Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age ($40.00 MIT Press) at the Tattered Cover Bookstore on Tuesday March 15 from...

Professor Charles Wilkinson's latest book, Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (W.W. Norton, February 2005) provides a comprehensive history of the struggle for Native American sovereignty and its place in the American civil rights movement. In reviewing Blood Struggle, Publisher's Weekly writes, Wilkinson's "sympathetic treatment extols the movement's...

Leaders in academia and industry discussed the sustainability and legal status of open source licensing as a regime for facilitating the Internet's commitment to openness while inviting commercial development.

On Tuesday, March 1st, W. Dean Salter of the law firm of Holme Roberts Owen visited Professor Melissa Hart's Legal Ethics and Professionalism class.Salter talked with the class about the current Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct applicable to the attorney representing an organization and the proposed changes to those rules...

Third-year student Kevin Opp was recently award second place in the Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc.'s (ASECA) annual writing competition. ASECA is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1990 by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") alumni. ASECA's stated mission is to provide the opportunity for education and growth...

On February 24th, the Juvenile and Family Law Program and the Women's Law Caucus hosted a talk by Staci Haines, a nationally recognized expert on child sexual abuse. Ms. Haines is the founder and executive director of Generation Five, a San Francisco based organization committed to ending child sexual abuse...

Constance Talmage, Executive Director of the Colorado Lawyers Committee, visit Professor Melissa Hart'sclass in Legal Ethics and Professionalism on February 17, 2005. She discussed the work of the Colorado Lawyers Committee -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan consortium of 41 Denver area law firms that provides pro bono representation seeking systemic reform...

On February 10th, the Federalist Society welcomed Professor James Huffman to the chapter to discuss 'Free Market Environmentalism.' James Huffman is the current Dean of Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Dean Huffman, also a professor at Lewis and Clark since 1973, has taught a myriad of subjects...

The Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program hosted a two-day conference on February 13th-14th, 2005, titled The Digital Broadband Migration: Rewriting the Telecom Act. The program included such notable speakers as:Professor Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law SchoolVint Cerf, Chairman of ICANN and SVP, Technology Strategy, MCIRichard Notebaert, CEO, Qwest Communications Inc.LeRoy Williams, Colorado...

On Thursday February 17 Professor Lakshman Guruswamy delivered a groundbreaking lecture, "Sustainable Energy: A New Framework," making the case for a new international framework for addressing issues of sustainable energy. Dr. Guruswamy's lecture culminated in an ambitious proposal that would establish Colorado as a global leader of the new legal,...