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Congratulations to the 176 Colorado Law students receiving their JD, LLM, and MSL degrees. Meet just a few of our talented, motivated, and innovative graduates.
The University of Colorado Law School pre-tenure faculty are making waves, placing articles in top law journals and national publications, organizing workshops and conferences on cross-cutting issues, and presenting their research and scholarship at the local, national, and international levels.
The percentage of 2018 graduates employed in long-term, full-time, non-school funded jobs for which bar passage was required or a JD degree was an advantage 10 months after graduation is the highest of any class in 11 years.
The Peggy Browning Fund has selected 2L Amanda Klitzke ('20) to serve as a 2019 fellow. She will receive a stipend to pursue a 10-week summer fellowship at the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA) in Dayton, Ohio.
Harry Surden and Margot Kaminski, associate professors at the University of Colorado Law School, are leaders in exploring the future of AI and how technologies using computer-based decision making offer major prospects for breakthroughs in the law—and how those decisions are regulated. They are organizing a May 3 conference titled "Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?"
Earlier this month, the University of Colorado Law School Technology Law and Policy Clinic presented at the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights—the third time they've done so.
A new white paper authored by Sustainable Community Development Clinic student-attorneys Daniel Franz ('20) and Fripp Prioleau ('20), under the supervision of Professor Deborah Cantrell, seeks to understand the roadblocks to solar development on the ÀϾÅÆ·²è campus and serve as a roadmap to guide future proponents of solar on campus.
This spring break, 13 students in Professors Ann England and Colene Robinson Comparative Criminal Law class looked at the law through a different lens in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Nearly two years ago, Liz Kashinski (’19) had just wrapped up her first year at the University of Colorado Law School when she got an opportunity to step out of studying doctrinal law and step into the world of entrepreneurship and collaborative problem solving, ultimately helping to create a new way to decrease isolation for older adults.
A panel of experts including Phil Weiser, Colorado attorney general; Violeta Chapin, associate clinical professor of law; Ming Hsu Chen, associate professor of law and director of the Immigration Law and Policy Program at Colorado Law; and Peter Roos, formerly with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, discussed the history and current implications of Plyler vs. Doe, the landmark case brought to the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that no state could pass a law barring undocumented children from public schools.