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Student attorneys in the CCLL have been working on a project to establish a no-cost food pantry in the law school. Spearheaded by students JJ Carl ‘25, Aidan Stearns ‘25, and Charlotte Goodenow ‘24, the project was inspired by no-cost community grocery stores operated by a local nonprofit, Boulder Food Rescue, and by efforts across the way from the Law School at CU’s School of Education.

Congratulations to Prof. Colene Robinson, who recently received a 2024 Boulder Faculty Excellence Award for “Excellence in Teaching.” This award recognizes the vital importance of teaching and mentoring students as significant components of faculty duties that are central to the university’s mission.  

The Natives Vote team, a collaborative effort including the American Indian Law Clinic at Colorado Law, First Peoples Worldwide, IllumiNative and Native Organizers Alliance, was launched to address the unique challenges faced by Native communities in exercising their right to vote.

Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) client Jason Hogan was released from prison on May 9, 2023, after spending nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

The 2022-2023 American Indian Law Clinic (the Clinic) students have already been hard at work; parsing national election laws; digging through historical treaties and local laws; and supporting international clients to elevate Indigenous human rights concerns before the United Nations.

Professor Colene Robinson, co-director of Colorado Law’s Clinical Program, and Josi McCauley ’06 each received awards at the 2022 Colorado Office of the Child’s Representative (OCR) Annual Conference, held on September 12 and 13.

Colorado Law's Sustainable Community Development Clinic (SCDC) has formed a new non-profit to support residents of a Ft. Collins mobile home park in preserving the affordability of their homes.

A group of about 20 University of Colorado Law School students traveled to reservation counties across North Dakota to ensure the votes of tribal reservation members were counted in the Nov. 6 election.

The Criminal and Immigration Defense Clinic, led by Clinical Professor Violeta Chapin, took its services on the road this semester, offering free renewal assistance for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in Fort Collins, Greeley, and across Boulder County.

We sat down with Kristy Martinez, director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project at Colorado Law, to hear about the program's summer projects and what's coming up for the fall.