The University of Colorado School of Law has announced the eighth annual Clifford Calhoun Public Service Award this year will go to Norton Steuben, the school's Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law Emeritus.
In announcing the award, law school Dean David Getches said, "By volunteering to share his professional expertise locally and worldwide, Nort Steuben exemplifies the spirit of public service by a faculty member that the law school celebrates with the Calhoun Award."
Steuben has an extensive record of public service to the local, national and international legal communities. As a national expert in real estate transactions, he brought a professional perspective to the cause of affordable housing in Boulder County. He has donated time to the Boulder Housing Authority, which Thistle Community Housing has acknowledged with its Housing Hero Award.
Steuben also served on the Open Space Board of Trustees and the governing committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
The author of leading texts on taxation, Steuben lent his services to Ukraine as a tax policy adviser to the young republic, helping to shape its tax laws as it emerged from Soviet control in the late 1990s. He and his wife lived in Kyiv for nearly two years as he worked with the government to develop a tax code.
Steuben was honored for that work by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which asked him to serve as a lecturer on tax policy. In 2003 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant and returned to Ukraine to teach at two universities in Kyiv.
In addition to his professional service, Steuben has been involved in activities ranging from service as a board member of the Boulder Human Rights Commission to president of Congregation Har HaShem.
The Clifford Calhoun Service Award was established in 1998 by an anonymous donor to honor "persons who contribute to the public service of the law school in the spirit and tradition of the contributions Professor Calhoun made in his career in the law school."
Professor Calhoun joined the faculty in 1969 and served as associate dean from 1983-86, and acting dean from 1987-88. He is remembered for his inspired teaching, devoting countless hours assisting his colleagues and for tireless commitment of his professional talents to the bar, to the local community and to the state.