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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 ��������’s campus and serve as a roadmap to guide future proponents of solar on campus.

In an April 18 talk at Colorado Law, Yale Law School's Harold Hongju Koh analyzed the state of international law under the Trump administration.

This spring break, 13 students in Professors Ann England and Colene Robinson’s 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.

Associate Professor Margot Kaminski participated in a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hearing focused on the FTC’s approach to consumer privacy April 9-10, 2019. Kaminski spoke on a panel about current approaches to privacy and compare how various jurisdictions have enacted laws that address privacy risks, including federal law, European law (through the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR), and state laws—both enacted and proposed.

Johnnie Nguyen (’21), a 1L at the University of Colorado Law School, was elected chair of the Law Student Division Council of the American Bar Association.

When people think about artificial intelligence, or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming. Real AI is lightyears away from that. Today, AI is still pretty far from basic things humans can accomplish, like being able to grasp abstract concepts, according to Harry Surden, a University of Colorado Law School professor and AI expert.

Zach Mountin, the incoming director of the Civil Practice Clinic, will roll out a new employment law component of the clinic focused on representing low-income wage workers and workers facing discrimination.

A Feb. 25 panel discussion titled “Lawyers and Judges of Color Balance the Scales” commemorated Black History Month by drawing attention to the contributions of lawyers and judges of color across Colorado and the nation.