The University of Colorado Law School is one of the professional graduate schools within the

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. It is a public law school, with more than 500 students attending and working toward a

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. The Wolf Law Building is located in

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, and is sited on the south side of the

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campus. The law school houses the William A. Wise Law Library, which is a regional archive for federal government materials and is open to the public.

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Justice

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graduated from the University of Colorado Law School in 1922. The University of Colorado Law School consistently ranks in the top 50

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in '' U.S. News & World Report'' rankings (ranked 49th as of 2022). According to Colorado's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 74.2% of the Class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. For 2015 graduates, the overall employment rate was 96% at 10 months after graduation, including JD-required, JD-advantaged, and other positions.

History

Established in 1892, the University of Colorado Law School is a charter member in the

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and appeared in 1923 on

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's first ever publication of approved law schools. Although always located on the greater Boulder campus, the law school has occupied five buildings since its founding. For the first two years of its existence, the school was housed in the Kent building. From 1894 to 1909 the school occupied the Hale Law Building. For the next 50 years, until 1959, the school occupied the Guggenheim Law Building. From 1959 to 2005, the law school occupied the Fleming Law Building. In the fall of 2006, the law school once again moved and now sits in the Wolf Law Building.

The Wolf Law Building

By the late 1990s, Colorado Law had outgrown its building. In 1997 law students voted to tax themselves with a $1,000 per year tuition differential to help finance the building, but in 2001 the State of Colorado General Assembly rescinded its earmarked funds from the project. Facing the risk of accreditation loss, law students worked with campus leaders and successfully passed a $400 per year fee on all Boulder students to fund capital construction on the Wolf Law Building and three other campus projects. The Wolf Law Building was dedicated on September 8, 2006, by

justice

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. The dedication ceremony represented the end of a long and creative funding process for a public law school. In addition to student funds, over $13 million in private gifts were donated to support the construction of the new law building. The Wolf family, in honor of Leon and Dora Wolf, were especially generous in their contribution to the new building that now bears their family name. The Wolf Law Building was constructed under the United States Green Building Council's LEED certification rating system for environmental sustainability and received a Gold rating. Colorado Law is the second law school to be housed in a certified LEED building.

Admissions

The school received 2,792 applications for the class of 2023 and matriculated 185 students. The 25th and 75th percentile

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scores for entering students were 158 and 164, respectively; the median LSAT was 163. The 25th and 75th percentile GPA for entering students was 3.39 and 3.78, with a median of 3.65.

Employment

According to Colorado's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 74.2% of the Class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. Colorado's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 8.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2015 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Colorado for the 2013-2014 academic year is $51,110 for residents and $58,620 for nonresidents. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $197,814 for residents and $219,168 for nonresidents.

Controversial 2009 employment statistics

In October 2009, the journal ''

Law Week Colorado ''Law Week Colorado'' is Colorado's weekly online news source for lawyers and an information source on legal issues in the state and around the nation. It is available to the public and circulates widely to lawyers in private practice and public s ...

'' stirred controversy when it reported that only 35% of the school's Class of 2009 had jobs at graduation.Debra Cassens Weiss (10/28/09
Law School Says Stats on Jobless Grads Were Wrong; Publication Differs
ABA Law Journal. Retrieved 9-30-10. Officials from the school assailed the Law Week Colorado article. Former Assistant Dean of the Office of Career Development SuSaNi Harris called Law Week Colorado's report the product of a "miscalculation" and "misunderstanding" and claimed Law Week Colorado "confused 'employed' and 'unemployed.'" Later, Associate Dean Dayna Matthew told Law Week Colorado that the numbers released were "premature" and asserted that the National Association of Legal Professionals (NALP) would release more favorable statistics in February 2010. The reason, Matthew said, was that the NALP discounted graduates who did not report their employment status. For its part, Law Week Colorado stuck to its original statistics and noted that the University of Colorado had not provided any new statistics.

Ranking

In 2008, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the University of Colorado Law School 32nd in the nation. In 2010, its ranking fell to 38th. In 2011, the school dropped to 47th, leading ''The Wall Street Journal'' to call the school "among the biggest fallers among the top 50". As of 2022, the University of Colorado Law School is ranked 49th in the country.

Experiential Learning at the University of Colorado Law School

*Clinics: the American Indian Law Clinic, the Civil Practice Clinic, the Criminal Defense Clinic, the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, Family Law Clinic, the Juvenile Law Clinic, the Natural Resources Law Clinic, and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic. *Externships *Public Service Pledge *Appellate and Trial Competitions

Publications

*University of Colorado Law Review *Colorado Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Review *Colorado Technology Law Journal

Notable alumni

*United States Senators ** Gordon L. Allott (LL.B. 1929), former

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from

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...

Hank Brown George Hanks "Hank" Brown (born February 12, 1940) is an American politician and lawyer from Colorado. He is a former Republican politician and U.S. Senator. He served as the 21st president of the University of Colorado system from April 2005 ...

(J.D. 1969), former

from

and former president of the

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and the

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Cory Gardner Cory Scott Gardner (born August 22, 1974) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States senator from Colorado from 2015 to 2021. A Republican, he was the U.S. representative for Colorado's 4th congressional dis ...

(J.D. 2001), former

from

, former U.S. Representative from

** Eugene Millikin (LL.B. 1913), former

from

*United States Representatives **

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(LL.B. 1949), former U.S. representative from

** John Chenoweth (LL.B. 1916), former U.S. representative from

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(LL.B. 1959), former U.S. representative from

** John H. Marsalis (LL.B. 1934), former U.S. representative from

** John J. McIntyre (LL.B. 1928), former U.S. representative from

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, former justice of the

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Joe Neguse Joseph D. Neguse ( ; born May 13, 1984) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 2nd congressional district since 2019. The district is based in Boulder and includes many of Denver's northwestern su ...

(J.D. 2009), U.S. representative from

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(J.D. 1978), U.S. representative from

*U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Federal Appeals Court Judges ** Jean Sala Breitenstein (LL.B. 1924), former judge of the

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(LL.B. 1940), former judge of the

(LL.B. 1922), former associate justice of the

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** Timothy Tymkovich (J.D. 1982), judge of the

, former solicitor general of Colorado *U.S. District Court Judges ** Alfred A. Arraj (LL.B. 1928), former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado **

Robert E. Blackburn Robert Edward Blackburn (born April 12, 1950) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Personal life and education Blackburn was born in Lakewood, Colorado. He received a Ba ...

(J.D. 1974), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado **

Olin Hatfield Chilson Olin Hatfield "Chilly" Chilson (November 22, 1903 – September 28, 1991) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Education and career Born on November 22, 1903, in Pueblo, Colorado, ...

(LL.B. 1927), former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado ** Larry R. Hicks (J.D. 1968), judge of

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Marcia S. Krieger Marcia Smith Krieger (born March 3, 1954) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Early life and education Born in Denver, Colorado, Krieger graduated from Lewis and Clark Colleg ...

(J.D. 1979), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado **

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(LL.B. 1963), former judge for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado ** William J. Rea (LL.B. 1949), former judge of the

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Edward Nottingham Edward Willis Nottingham Jr. (born 1948) is a former United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, having served in that office from November 24, 1989, until his resign ...

(J.D. 1972), former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado ** Waldo Henry Rogers (LL.B. 1931), former judge of the

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** Jacob Weinberger (LL.B. 1904), former judge of the

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Robert Wherry Robert Allen Wherry Jr. (born April 7, 1944 in Langley Field, Virginia) is a former judge of the United States Tax Court. Wherry earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Colorado and his Juris Doctor from the University of Colorad ...

, former judge of the

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** Fred M. Winner (LL.B. 1936), former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado **

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(J.D. 1988), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado *United States Governors **

George Alfred Carlson George Alfred Carlson (October 23, 1876 – December 6, 1926) was the 20th Governor of Colorado from 1915 to 1917. Biography He was born on October 23, 1876, in Alta, Iowa. Carlson graduated from the University of Colorado in 1902 and earned h ...

(LL.B. 1904), former

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Ralph Lawrence Carr Ralph Lawrence Carr (December 11, 1887September 22, 1950) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 29th Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943. Early life Born in Rosita in Custer County, Carr grew up in Cripple Creek in ...

(LL.B. 1912), former

William Lee Knous William Lee Knous (February 2, 1889 – December 12, 1959) was an American attorney serving as Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, the 31st Governor of Colorado and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for ...

(LL.B. 1911), former

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(J.D. 1981), former

, former district attorney of Denver County **

Roy Romer Roy Rudolf Romer (born October 31, 1928) is an American politician who served as the 39th Governor of Colorado from 1987 to 1999, and subsequently as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2000 to 2006. Family and e ...

(LL.B. 1952), former

*State Supreme Court Justices **

Michael L. Bender Michael L. Bender (born January 7, 1942) is an American attorney and jurist, who served as the 44th Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Bender earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1964 and a law degree from the University of Colorado ...

(J.D. 1967), former chief justice of the

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(J.D. 1977), former chief justice of the

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(J.D. 1977), justice of the

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** Alex J. Martinez (J.D. 1976), former justice of the

**William Neighbors (J.D. 1965), former justice of the

** Luis Rovira (LL.B. 1950), former chief justice of the

Felix L. Sparks Felix Laurence Sparks (August 2, 1917 – September 25, 2007) was an American attorney, government official, and military officer from Colorado. A veteran of World War II, he attained the rank of brigadier general in the Colorado Army National G ...

(LL.B. 1947), former justice of the

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brigadier general *Federal Government Agency Administrators and Civil Service Personnel ** Anne Gorsuch Burford (J.D. 1964), former

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** Michael L. Connor, former commissioner U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and former deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Interior **Carlton R. Stoiber (J.D. 1969), former deputy general counsel for the

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and former director of the

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Office of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy **

Jason R. Dunn Jason R. Dunn is an American attorney, who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 2018 to 2021. He was previously an attorney in private practice in the Denver office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Early l ...

(J.D. 2001), former U.S. Attorney for the

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*Other State Government Elected Officials **

Bernie Buescher Bernie Buescher (born July 11, 1949) is an American politician who served as secretary of state of Colorado. A Democrat, he was appointed to the office in 2009 by Governor of Colorado Bill Ritter to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Re ...

(J.D. 1974), former

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** Morgan Carroll (J.D. 2000), Colorado Democratic Party Chair; former member, Colorado Senate **

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(J.D. 2005), former speaker of the

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(J.D. 1983), member of the Montana Senate **

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(J.D. 2006), district attorney in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Lincoln counties **

Robert Lee Knous Robert Lee Knous (November 1, 1917 – May 15, 2000) was an American politician who served as the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1959 to 1967 under Stephen McNichols and John Arthur Love. He was the son of William Lee Knous Willi ...

(J.D. 1970), former

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** Jeanne Labuda (J.D. 1989), former member,

Tom Van Norman Thomas James Van Norman was a Democratic member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, representing the 28A district from 2000 to 2008. External linksSouth Dakota Legislature - Tom Van Normanofficial SD House website Project Vote Smart ...

(J.D. 1993), former member,

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Dan Pabon Daniel Robert Pabon (born October 18, 1977) is an American politician and lawyer from Colorado. He is a former member of the Colorado House of Representatives, having served from 2011-2019. Biography Pabon grew up in the same community he is now ...

(J.D. 2005), member,

Ellen Roberts Ellen Stuart Roberts (born August 27, 1959 ) is an attorney and former United States Republican Party, Republican legislator in the U.S. State of Colorado. From 2006-2010, Roberts served as the State Representative for House District 59. In 201 ...

(J.D. 1986), former member,

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Brandon Shaffer Brandon Shaffer (born March 22, 1971) is the former President of the Colorado State Senate. He represented Senate District 17, which encompasses the cities of Longmont, Lafayette, Erie, and Louisville. Shaffer, a lifelong Democrat, was first e ...

(J.D. 2001), former president of the Colorado State Senate **

Pat Steadman Patrick "Pat" Steadman (born March 31, 1964) is an attorney, former legislator, and former lobbyist from the U.S. state of Colorado. Steadman, a United States Democratic Party, Democrat, was appointed to the Colorado Senate in May 2009 following ...

(J.D. 1991), former member,

John Suthers John William Suthers (born October 18, 1951) is an American attorney and politician serving as the Mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado. He previously served as the Attorney General of Colorado, U.S. Attorney for Colorado, Executive Director of th ...

(J.D. 1977), mayor of

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, former

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**George Thatcher (LL.B. 1904),

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*Academia **

Frances Olsen Frances Elisabeth Olsen (born February 4, 1945) is a professor of law at UCLA and a noted member of the school of Feminist Legal Theory. She teaches Feminist Legal Theory, Dissidence & Law, Family Law, and Torts.

(J.D. 1971), professor of law at

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*Business **

Louis O. Kelso Louis Orth Kelso (; December 4, 1913 – February 17, 1991) was a political economist, corporate and financial lawyer, author, lecturer and merchant banker who is chiefly remembered today as the inventor and pioneer of the employee stock ownersh ...

(LL.B. 1938), founder of private equity firm

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, inventor of the

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Floyd Odlum Floyd Bostwick Odlum (March 30, 1892 – June 17, 1976) was an American lawyer and industrialist. He has been described as "possibly the only man in the United States who made a great fortune out of the Depression". Life and career After strug ...

(LL.B. 1914), founder of

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, owner of RKO *Other **

Stephen Coonts Stephen Coonts (born July 19, 1946) is an American spy thriller and suspense novelist. Early life, education, and military career Stephen Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a small coal mining town. Following high school graduation, h ...

(J.D. 1979), thriller and suspense novelist **

Vine Deloria, Jr. Vine Victor Deloria Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005, Standing Rock Sioux) was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights. He was widely known for his book '' Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto ...

(J.D. 1970), Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist **

Fred Folsom Fred Gorham Folsom (November 9, 1873 – November 11, 1944) was an American football player, coach of football and baseball, lawyer, and law professor. He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder (1895–1899, 1901 ...

(LL.B. 1899), former NCAA football coach ** Maggie L. Fox, CEO of the

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**William Hybl, (J.D. 1967), chairman of the

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and current President Emeritus of the

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** Clara Ruth Mozzor (LL.B. 1915), first woman to serve as a U.S. assistant attorney general ** Ellen Hart Peña (J.D. 1988), former world-class runner and lawyer ** Manuel Ramos (J.D. 1973), noted attorney and author ** Penfield Tate II (J.D. 1968), first

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mayor of

Notable faculty

* James Anaya *

Paul Campos Paul F. Campos is a law professor, author and blogger on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder. Campos received his A.B. (1982) and M.A. in English (1983) from the University of Michigan and in 1989 his J.D. from the Univers ...

Wiley Young Daniel Wiley Young Daniel (September 10, 1946 – May 10, 2019) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Early education and career Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Daniel received a Bachelo ...

, judge on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado * Allison H. Eid, judge on the

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (in case citations, 10th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: * District of Colorado * District of Kansas * Distr ...

Maurice B. Foley Maurice Brian Foley (born March 28, 1960) is a judge of the United States Tax Court. Foley received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College, a Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

, judge on the

David Getches David Harding Getches () was dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado. He taught and wrote on water law, public land law, environmental law, and Indian law. Biog ...

Neil Gorsuch Neil McGill Gorsuch ( ; born August 29, 1967) is an American lawyer and judge who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since ...

, Associate Justice on the

* Moses Hallett * Melissa Hart, Justice on the

* Margot Kaminski * Alice Madden * Suzette M. Malveaux *

Gene Nichol Gene Ray Nichol, Jr. (born May 11, 1951) was the twenty-sixth president of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. He succeeded Timothy J. Sullivan and officially served from July 1, 2005, to February 12, 2008. It ...

* Nancy E. Rice, Chief Justice of the

James Grafton Rogers James Grafton Rogers (January 13, 1883 - April 23, 1971) was the Assistant Secretary of State for the United States. Biography Rogers was born on January 13, 1883 in Denver, Colorado to Edmund James Armstrong Rogers (1852-1922) and Maria Georgina ...

* Pierre Schlag *

Don W. Sears Don W. Sears (1921-2007) was the eighth Dean and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Sears was also a two-time recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his military service during World War II. Military ...

Mark Squillace Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finn ...

Phil Weiser Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Colorado Attorney General, since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center ...

*Charles Wilkinson

Centers

The

Energy and Environmental Security Initiative Established in 2003, the Energy and Environmental Security Initiative (EESI) is an interdisciplinary Research & Policy Institute located at the University of Colorado Law School. The fundamental mission of EESI is to serve as an interdisciplinary ...

(EESI), established in 2003, is an interdisciplinary Research and Policy Institute. The Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment programs for law students and the general public. It hosts an annual lecture on natural resources law that honors alumnus Ruth Wright and another lecture series focused on energy policy. The Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture Series has hosted former Secretary of the Interior and Arizona governor

Bruce Babbitt The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has be ...

, former Department of the Interior deputy secretary Michael Connor, former Department of the Interior solicitor John Leshy, and law professor Mary Wood, while the Schultz Lecture in Energy has hosted former Secretary of Energy and physics professor

Steven Chu Steven ChuByron White Byron "Whizzer" Raymond White (June 8, 1917 April 15, 2002) was an American professional football player and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 until his retirement in 1993. Born and raised in Colo ...

, seeks to enhance the study and teaching of

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fe ...

and to stimulate public debate and understanding of the US constitutional system. The Center sponsors public lectures and symposia. The Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship hosts nine yearly seminars and an annual symposium, supporting the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic and developing student interest and involvement in the technology sector.

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