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The 31st Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference,听State of Resistance: The Role of States in the Midst of Federal Court Crisis, took place on Friday, April 14, 2023.

The听conference grappled with the role of the states in responding to the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 modern jurisprudence. With the disruption of long-standing rights, controversial rulings and procedures, and an increase in skepticism about the Court鈥檚 legitimacy, speakers examined the role of state and tribal courts, state constitutions, and state law in responding to growing threats to democracy. This interdisciplinary conference benefitted from a range of perspectives and experiences. The speakers included: doctrinal & clinical law professors, a mathematics professor, private practitioners and non-profit lawyers, activists, and policy makers.听

To read more about the conference, click here.听

Schedule of Events:听

9:00 a.m. |听Opening Remarks

9:10 a.m. | Keynote: "Democratic Federalism and the Supreme Court"

• Professor Carolyn Shapiro

10:00 a.m. |听Panel 1: "State Responsibility in the Face of Civil Rights Regression"

• Professor Matthew Fletcher - Michigan Law
• Siddhartha Rathod, Esq. - Rathod | Mohamedbhai LLC听
• Tona Boyd, Esq. - Legal Defense Fund

11:30 a.m. | Lunch Break (Food provided by Colorado Law)

12:30 p.m. | Panel 2: "The Gutting of the Voting Rights Act and Its Impact on Judicial Legitimacy"

• Debo Adegbile, Esq. - WilmerHale
• Professor Ruth Greenwood - Harvard Law School
• Professor Moon Duchin - Tufts University

2:10 p.m. | Panel 3: "The Battle Over Abortion at the State Level'

• Dean Rachel Rebouche - Temple Law School
• Kiki Council, Esq. - The Lawyering Project
• Professor Martha Davis - Northeastern University School of Law

3:40 p.m. | Closing Remarks

4:00 p.m. |听Networking Reception with Speakers (in person attendees only)

Five general CLE credits approved for Colorado attorneys.

Watch听the video recording of the 31st听Annual Rothgerber Conference.

The 30th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference:听Looking Back to Move Forward: Exploring the Legacy of U.S. Slavery, took place virtually on Friday, April 8, 2022, with a special, pre-conference听performance of听's .

Our community of nationally renowned scholars, lawyers, and leaders gathered for bold, important discussions centered around the themes introduced by The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson written by Colorado Law Dean, Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss.听Themes emanating from the book include: institutional complicity and participation in slavery; law and law-like structures that helped to maintain slavery and related forms of servitude; and current impacts and implications of this history.听To read more about the conference, click here.听

Thursday, April 7, 5:30 - 7 p.m.

In collaboration with the听Motus Theater, this years conference听presents JustUs: Stories from the Frontlines of the Criminal Legal System. Motus JustUs monologists Dereck Bell, Juaquin Mobley, and Colette Payne, will read aloud their powerful autobiographical stories artfully depicting their experiences within the criminal legal system.

Motus Theater Monologists

• Dereck Bell, Juaquin Mobley, and Colette Payne

(Proof of vaccination is required to enter the Dairy Arts Center)

Friday, April 8, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Conference Panel and Speakers

Conference facilitated by: Suzette Malveaux (Colorado Law, director of the Byron R. White Center)

Book Chat with Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss (Colorado Law) and Professor Hilary Green听(University of Alabama)听

Roundtable:听The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; The Quest for Accountability听

• Moderator: Professor Suzette Malveaux听(Colorado Law)
• Professor Eric Miller (Loyola Law School),听Professor Emerita Adjoa Ayietoro (William H. Bowen School of Law), Reverend Robert Turner (former pastor of Historic AME Church in Tulsa),听Damario Solomon-Simmons, Esq. (Solomon Simmons Law)

Panel 1:听Institutional Complicity in U.S. Slavery; the Role of the Judiciary and Higher Education听

• Moderator: Erin Vanek (Colorado Law '22)
• Professor Michael Higginbotham听(University of Baltimore Law School), Professor听Brian Mitchell (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Professor Christopher Mathis (University of Iowa College of Law - visiting)

Lunch Break (Food provided by Colorado Law)

Panel 2: Vestiges of Slavery in the Criminal Justice System听

• Moderator: Professor Ben Levin (Colorado Law)
• Professor Jack听Chin (UC Davis School of Law),听Professor Sunita Patel (UCLA School of Law),听Professor Monica Bell (Yale Law),听Robert Saleem Holbrook (Executive Director of the Abolition Law Center, Penn Law)

Panel 3: Bringing It Home: How Slavery Impacts Property and Land Ownership in Colorado Today听

• Moderator: Sam McCarthy (Colorado Law '23)
• Professor Tom Romero (University of Denver Sturm College of Law),听Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca (Denver District 9),听听Rita R. Lewis (former Executive Director- Denver Metro Fair Housing Center)

Eight general CLE credits are approved for Colorado attorneys.

The 29th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference:听Pursuing Citizenship, took place virtually on Friday, April 9, 2021, with a special, pre-conference听performance of听's .

This year's conference听built听upon Colorado Law Professor听Ming Hsu Chen's new book,听Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era, in which she argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. In addition, citizenship consists of economic, social, political, and legal dimensions; the modern era of intense immigration enforcement distorts the balance and produces a sense of citizenship insecurity. This conference charted a broad conception of citizenship, putting the law in its social context, and explored its inextricable relationship to immigration enforcement in the modern era.听To read more about the conference, click here.听

Motus Theater鈥檚 Undocumonologues

Motus Theater听presented UndocuMonologues, which weaves together autobiographical monologues from undocumented writers, interwoven with the music of Elisa Garcia. Story themes include the threat of deportation, the injustice of being sent into exile from the country in which you were raised, border patrol, the current human and civil rights threats to immigrants, and racial profiling.听

Two monologues were听performed by the writers themselves, while the third was听read听aloud听by special听guest, the听Honorable Mimi Tsankov, National Association听of Immigration Judges, who听reflected upon her听experience connecting with that story. The event听concluded with a 20 minute talk-back, where audience members听reflected on their experience and posed questions to those involved.听For more information about Motus Theater and how to get involved, please visit: .

2021 Conference Panels & Panelists

Opening:听Ming Hsu Chen (Colorado Law), author of Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era听in conversation with Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA School of Law)

Panel 1: Citizenship Theory Beyond Legal Status

• Moderator:听Seema Sohi (Ethnic Studies, 麻豆影院)
• Niambi Carter听(Political Science, Howard University),听Elizabeth Cohen (Political Science, Syracuse University),听Allen Colbern (Political Science, Arizona State University),听Amanda Frost (Washington College of Law).听

Lunchtime Panel: Stories of Immigrants

• Moderator:听Violeta Chapin (Clinical Faculty, Colorado Law)
• Salvador Hernandez (Colorado State Director, Mi Familia Vota),听Alan Sanchez (CU Alumni), Shiyan Zhang (CU Alumni).

Panel 2:鈥�听Citizenship, Integration, and Belonging鈥�

• Moderator:听David Cook-Martin (Sociology, 麻豆影院)
• Tomas Jimenez (Sociology,听Stanford), Cristina Rodriguez (Yale Law School), Stella Burch Elias (University of Iowa College of Law), Shannon Gleeson (Labor Relations, Law & History, Cornell),听X贸chitl Bada (Latin American and Latino Studies,听University of Illinois at Chicago).

Panel 3:鈥�听Noncitizens, Exclusion, and Enforcement鈥�

• Moderator:听Hunter Knapp (Postdoctoral fellow, University of Colorado Law)
• Adam Goodman (Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago), Rebecca Hamlin (Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Laura Lunn (Detention Program Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network), Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (Penn State Law).听

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The 28th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference took place on April 3, 2020. This year's conference focused on the topic "Women鈥檚 Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19th Amendment". 2020 marked听the centennial of the 19th Amendment, formally extending suffrage to some, but not all, women, and is a presidential election year with an unprecedented number of female candidates running for national and local offices. But barriers to both political rights and social, lived equality persist, particularly for women at the intersections of race, sex, and class. The 28th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference used the centennial to take stock of how far we鈥檝e come鈥攁nd how far we have to go鈥攊n terms of formal political enfranchisement as well as the social and economic empowerment of women more broadly.

Motus Theater鈥檚 Undocumonologues

Motus Theater听presented UndocuMonologues, which weaves together autobiographical monologues from undocumented writers, interwoven with the music of Elisa Garcia. Story themes include the threat of deportation, the injustice of being sent into exile from the country in which you were raised, border patrol, the current human and civil rights threats to immigrants, and racial profiling.听

Two monologues were听performed by the writers themselves, while the third was听read听aloud听by special听guest, the听Honorable Mimi Tsankov, National Association听of Immigration Judges, who听reflected upon her听experience connecting with that story. The event听concluded with a 20 minute talk-back, where audience members听reflected on their experience and posed questions to those involved.听For more information about Motus Theater and how to get involved, please visit: .

2021 Conference Panels & Panelists

Introductory Remarks by Suzette Malveaux and Keynote Address by听Reva Siegel (Yale Law)听听

Panel 1: 鈥淗istorical Perspectives on the Nineteenth Amendment: Looking Back,听Looking Forward鈥澨�

• Prof. Carolyn Ramsey (Colorado Law)听

• Prof. Julie Suk (CUNY, Graduate Center)听

• Prof. Mary Ziegler (Florida State Univ. Law)听听

• Prof. Susan听Schulten听(University of Denver, History)

Panel 2: 鈥淏arriers to Political Representation鈥澨�

• Prof.听Dara听Stolovitch听(Princeton,听Gender & Sexuality Studies)听听

• Prof.听Atiba听Ellis (Marquette Law)听听

• Prof.听Bertrall听Ross (Berkeley Law)听

• Prof. Justin Levitt (Loyola Law)听

• Prof. Ming Chen (Colorado Law)听听

Panel 3 鈥淟ived Equality: Beyond Formal Political Rights鈥澨�

• Prof. Aya Gruber (Colorado Law)听

• Chinyere听Ezie听(Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights)听

• Diana Flynn (Litigation Director, Lamda Legal)听

• 听Prof. Cary Franklin (Univ. Texas Law)听

• Prof. Scott Skinner-Thompson (Colorado Law)听

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The 27th Annual Rothgerber Conference took place Friday, April 5, 2019, and was open to the public. This year's conference focused on the topic, "National Injunctions: What Does the Future Hold?", and featured an exciting panel of diverse scholars, with remarks by Phil Weiser, Colorado Attorney General; and Professor Suzette Malveaux, University of Colorado Law School.听 听

At the 26th Annual Rothgerber Constitutional Law Conference on Friday, April 13, 2018, speakers from around the U.S. explored a broad range of issues related to listeners鈥� constitutional interests and rights, including when and why listeners鈥� interests should matter to First Amendment law, how we might go about determining listeners鈥� interests, and what to do when listeners鈥� interests may be in tension with speakers鈥� interests -- generally or in specific contexts involving speech to voters, consumers, workers, students, information users, shareholders, clients, consumers of the media, and other specific individuals or communities.

Scholarship

• Listeners' Choices, James Grimmelmann听
• Limiting the Right to Buy Silence: A Hearer-Centered Approach, Burt Neuborne
• Powerful Speakers and Their Listeners, Helen Norton
• When Audiences Object: Free Speech and Campus Speaker Protests, Gregory P. Magarian
• The MacGuffin and the Net: Taking Internet Listeners Seriously, Derek E. Bambauer
• Press Speakers and the First Amendment Rights of Listeners, RonNell Andersen Jones
• Data Subjects鈥� Privacy Rights: Regulation of Personal Data Retention and Erasure, Alexander Tsesis
• Commercial Speech Protection as Consumer Protection, Felix T. Wu

The听25th Annual Rothgerber Constitutional Law Conference听addressed the topic of 鈥淭ruth, Lies, and the Constitution.鈥� Speakers included:

• Professor听Alan Chen, University of Denver Sturm College of Law听
• Professor Carla Fredericks, University of Colorado School of Law听
• Professor David Han, Pepperdine University School of Law听
• Professor B. Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve University School of Law听
• Professor Gregory Klass, Georgetown Law School听
• Professor Justin Marceau, University of Denver Sturm College of Law听
• Professor Helen Norton, University of Colorado School of Law听
• Professor Catherine Ross, George Washington University School of Law听
• Professor Mark Spottswood, Florida State University College of Law听
• Professor James Weinstein, Sandra Day O鈥機onnor Arizona State University College of Law听
• Professor Christina Wells, University of Missouri School of Law听

Keynote Address

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Panel Three

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Scholarship

• 听James Weinstein
• 听Catherine J. Ross
• 听B. Jessie Hill
• 听Helen Norton
• 听Carla F. Fredericks & Jesse D. Heibel
• 听Christina E. Wells
• 听Mark Spottswood
• 听David S. Han
• 听Alan K. Chen & Justin Marceau
• 听Gregory Klass

The 24^th Annual Rothgerber Conference offered attendees the opportunity to recognize the contributions of Colorado Law Professor Robert Nagel to constitutional scholarship over the course of his career. Speakers included:

• Professor Larry Alexander, San Diego Law School
• Professor Paul Campos, University of Colorado Law School
• Professor Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
• Dr. Matthew Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution
• Professor Michael Greve, George Mason University School of Law
• Professor Stephen Presser, Northwestern Law School
• Professor Frederick Schauer, Virginia Law School

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The 23rd Annual Rothgerber Conference, 鈥淧residential Interpretation of the Constitution,鈥� brought academics from around the country to explore the themes raised in Professor Hal Bruff鈥檚 recently published Uncommon Ground: How Presidents Interpret the Constitution. Professor Bruff delivered a keynote address. Speakers included:

• Gabrielle Appleby, University of South Wales
• Henry L. Chambers, Jr., Richmond School of Law
• Kathleen Clark, Washington University Law School
• Martin Flaherty, Fordham Law School
• Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota Law School
• David Pozen, Columbia Law School
• Peter Shane, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
• Kevin Stack, Vanderbilt Law School
• Adam Webster,听University of Adelaide, South Australia

At the 22nd Annual Rothgerber Conference, on October 2, 2014, academics and attorneys from around the country gathered to discuss how litigation strategy has pushed and is continuing to push constitutional change. There were three panels during the conference, focusing on these topics: race and constitutional litigation; getting to same-sex marriage; and constitutional litigation and movement identity.

The 21st Annual Rothgerber Conference听focused on federalism听and its impact on the constitutional debates surrounding the legalization of marijuana, gay marriage, gun rights, and immigration. Yale Law School Professor听Heather Gerken听gave the conference's keynote address,听entitled "The Political Safeguards of Horizontal Federalism."

The 20th Annual Rothgerber Conference took place in November 2012 and focused on expanding Constitutional literacy to the public.听 The Conference featured keynote speaker Professor Mark Tushnet of Harvard Law, a prominate advocate in popular constitutionalism.听

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On November 4-5, 2011, participants in the 19th Annual Rothgerber Conference spoke about 鈥淭oward a Constitutional Right of Access to Justice: Implications and Implementation.鈥� The Conference explored the many facets of access to justice, with panelists discussing recent Supreme Court decisions on the civil right to counsel and taxpayer standing; the role of law school clinics, pro bono work and cause lawyering in providing access; and the crisis in funding and other barriers to operationalizing access.