News
- A paper authored by Associate Professor Craig Konnoth received the annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. As part of the award, Konnoth will present his research at the U.S. Senate in February.
- Professor Kristen Carpenter and the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples met with Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile, on December 7. The meeting was part of the Expert Mechanism’s 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.
- Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper named University of Colorado Law School Professor Melissa Hart to the Colorado Supreme Court.
- The University of Colorado Law School is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at Colorado Law Ethics and Creative Problem Solving Writing Competition are Michael Miller (’18), first place, and Shelby Krantz (’19) and Grace Jang (’20), tied for second place.
- The Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship is expanding its attention beyond Colorado's Front Range to support entrepreneurs across the state.
- The University of Colorado Law School and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced a partnership establishing an advanced program of study in international human rights.
- An article written by Associate Professor Kristelia García, "Royalty Secularization," was published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Digest
- An article written by Professor Richard Collins, “To Sue and Be Sued: Capacity and Immunity of American Indian Nations,” will appear in Creighton Law Review in 2018.
- Kate Finn ('16) and Jesse Heibel ('16) worked alongside the American Indian Law Clinic to represent the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in its fight against the Dakota Access pipeline.
- Metadata Services Librarian Karen Selden was elected to the executive board of the American Association of Law Libraries, the national professional association for law librarians and legal information professionals.