Leaders in Law and Community Fellowship Receives Generous Gift
A graduate of the Class of 1961 donated $50,000 to support the Leaders in Law and Community (LILAC) fellowship program. LILAC addresses diversity in the legal profession by recruiting and developing students from backgrounds underrepresented in law schools and the legal profession. Colorado Law welcomed six inaugural LILAC fellows in fall 2017. Learn more at colorado.edu/lilac.
LLM Degree Relaunched
Colorado Law will relaunch its LLM degree in fall 2018 in the areas of entrepreneurship and business law; indigenous peoples law; intellectual property, technology, and telecommunications law; international law and human rights; natural resources, energy, and environmental law; and U.S. law for foreign lawyers. The LLM program focuses on recruiting talented and passionate lawyers from other countries who will enrich our community of scholars and students and bring Colorado Law’s intellectual leadership to the world. Learn more at colorado.edu/law/llm.
Professor Carpenter Meets with Chilean President
Professor Kristen Carpenter and the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) met with Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile, on Dec. 7. The meeting was part of the Expert Mechanism’s multiday visit to Santiago to conduct a study on “free, prior, and informed consent” among indigenous peoples, states, and industry as a safeguard for self-determination, land, culture, and other human rights. Carpenter was appointed the North American member of the EMRIP in March 2017, joining human rights experts from Africa, Asia, the Arctic, Europe, the Pacific, and South America.
Chapin Receives President's Diversity Award
Associate Clinical Professor Violeta Chapin was selected as a recipient of the 2017–18 President’s Diversity Award by the University of Colorado. This annual award recognizes significant achievements of faculty, staff, students, and academic or administrative units in developing a culturally and intellectually diverse university community reflective of inclusive excellence. Chapin leads the Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic, which spent the 2017–18 academic year working primarily with undocumented college students enrolled at universities and community colleges across Colorado.
Immigration Law and Policy Program Launches
Directed by Associate Professor Ming Chen, the Immigration Law and Policy Program launched in fall 2017 to support scholarship and teaching in immigration law and offers students opportunities to apply their developing constitutional knowledge in public service projects. In addition to curricular and extracurricular opportunities, the program connects students with lawyers in the community who are involved in constitutional litigation or policy work for externships and pro bono projects. Last fall, the program hosted the Citizenship and Equality Colloquium, a series of discussions led by esteemed scholars in citizenship and immigration. Learn more at colorado.edu/law/ILPP.
Professor Konnoth Presents Research at U.S. Senate
A paper written by Associate Professor Craig Konnoth received the annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. Konnoth presented his research at the eighth annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event in Washington, D.C., where he discussed his work with policymakers, academics, and privacy professionals at the U.S. Senate. Konnoth’s paper, “Health Information Equity,” was published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and shows how health information regulation disproportionately impacts the data security and autonomy of patients in lower socioeconomic and health status groups by making their data more readily available for public research.
Professor Hart Named to Colorado Supreme Court
On Dec. 14, 2017, Gov. John Hickenlooper named Professor Melissa Hart to the Colorado Supreme Court. Hart fills a seat vacated by the Honorable Allison H. Eid, a Colorado Law adjunct professor, who replaced Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in November 2017. Hart has taught at Colorado Law since 2000 and devotes her teaching and scholarship to employment discrimination, access to justice, and constitutional law. She is also director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, a position she has held since 2010. Hart will continue to teach at Colorado Law
