The overarching goals of this new position are:

• To bring to bear direct experience and knowledge of law teaching, law school learning, and law practice in designing strategies and leading efforts to foster a community and culture of belonging among students, faculty and staff as Colorado Law continues to innovate, diversify, and rise together.
• To strategize on, lead, and help coordinate existing and new projects focusing on culture, identity, race, and class among members of the law school community, with a close focus on how law students, law schools, and our entire legal community can participate in and contribute to these projects. 

With the creation of this role, Colorado Law joins law schools around the country in establishing a faculty-level position to lead this vitally important work. Welcome and congratulations, Associate Dean Chapin!

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Widely recognized for its intellectual diversity and originality, the faculty at Colorado Law encompasses an array of prominent legal scholars who are widely cited, both in academia and throughout the national media landscape. We invite you to catch up on the latest faculty publications and media mentions with this weekly round up, provided by the extraordinary .

Notable Mentions:

Brad Bernthal, Kristelia Garcia, Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss, Blake Reid, & SFC Distinguished Advisor JP de Vries,  (Silicon Flatirons Conference, Feb. 5-6, 2023).

Violeta Chapin, Debbie Kelley, , The Gazette, Feb. 5, 2023.

[Casey Fiesler, SFC affiliate faculty], Clarissa-Jan Lim, , Buzzfeed News, Feb. 8, 2023.

[Markus Funk, Colorado Law adjunct], , Washington Post, Jan. 10, 2023

Markus Funk, Bill Hutchinson, , ABC News, Jan. 18, 2023.

Markus Funk, , Dan Abrams Live (NewsNation), January 11, 2023 (appearance begins around 3:19).

Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Blake Reid, & Kyle Velte, Three New Faculty to Join Colorado Law, Feb. 10 2023.

Benjamin Levin, , Slate, Feb. 7, 2023.

Mark Loewenstein, , SSRN.com, Feb. 6, 2023 (SSRN login required).

Doug Spencer, , Mini Law School, Feb. 8, 2023.

Doug Spencer, Kate Riga, , Talking Points Memo, Feb. 9, 2023.

Ahmed White,  (Feb. 7, 2023). 

Ahmed White,  (upcoming, March 1, 2023).

Silicon Flatirons conference Cristiano Lima, , Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2023.

Silicon Flatirons conference, , TR Daily, Feb. 6, 2023 (Lexis login required).

Silicon Flatirons conference, Andrea Grajeda, , Daily Camera, Feb. 5, 2023.

[Colorado Law], , TaxProf Blog, Feb. 9, 2023.

[Colorado Law], , TaxProf Blog, Feb. 9, 2023.

[Colorado Law], , TaxProf Blog, Feb. 9, 2023.

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Widely recognized for its intellectual diversity and originality, the faculty at Colorado Law encompasses an array of prominent legal scholars who are widely cited, both in academia and throughout the national media landscape. We invite you to catch up on the latest faculty publications and media mentions with this weekly round up, provided by the extraordinary .

Faculty Publications:

Rabea Benhalim, , 94 U. COLO. L. REV. 149 (2023).

Markus Funk [Colorado Law adjunct],  (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2021).

, 58 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 331 (2022).

100 Neb. L. Rev. (2022).

, 73 S. C. L. Rev. 195 (2022).

Scott Skinner-Thompson, , 57 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 657 (2022). 

Notable Mentions:

[Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic student Xelef Botan], Colo. AG Office Fields Concerns on Draft Privacy Rules, Communications Daily, Feb. 2, 2023 (see highlighted text in attached PDF titled Communications Daily).

Violeta Chapin, Nicole C. Brambila, , Denver Gazette, Jan. 31, 2023.

Markus Funk, , The Volokh Conspiracy, Jan. 11, 2023.

Markus Funk, , Bloomberg Law (October 27, 2022).

Markus Funk, US District Judge Virginia M. Kendall, & Andrew S. Boutros, ,  Washington Post, Bloomberg Law & ABA Criminal Justice Newsletter (May 2022).

Dean Buckner Inniss,  (Feb. 2, 2023).

Douglas Kenney, GWC, Robyn White, , Newsweek, Feb. 1, 2023.

Amanda Parsons, Cryptocurrency and the Law, Mini-Law School (Feb. 1, 2023).

Blake Reid, Silicon Flatirons Center, Nicole Mueksch, 7 things to know about the internet’s midlife crisis, CU �鶹ӰԺ Today, Jan. 31, 2023 (SFC conference Feb. 5-6).

Scott Skinner-Thompson, Grace Mayer,  The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 31, 2023.

Mark Squillace, , Denver Post, Feb. 1, 2023.

Ahmed White’s Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers (University of California Press, 2022) announced co-winner of the International Labor History Association’s 2022 “Book of the Year Award,” Jan. 30, 2023 (see attached PDF titled ILHA Book Awards 2022).

Ahmed White & Tom Mackaman, , World Socialist Web Site, Feb. 1, 2023.

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Professor Robinson currently teaches the Juvenile & Family Law Clinic and co-directs the Juvenile and Family Law Program (JFLP). She has been on the faculty of the law school since 2005 after nearly a decade of representing children and families throughout Colorado and in New York City.

Professor Chapin teaches the Criminal & Immigration Defense Clinic, having joined the faculty in 2009. Prior to joining Colorado Law, she served for seven years as a trial attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She has represented both adult and juvenile indigent defendants with serious felony offenses at all stages of trial.

“We are both feeling very excited to lead the Clinical Program at a time when experiential education is in high demand from students, alums, and employers seeking to hire graduating law students with real client experience,” remarks Professor Robinson. “There is truly no replacement for this kind of hands-on participation in the legal system when it comes to connecting theory with practice.”

The Colorado Law Clinical Program, founded in 1948, has long played a crucial role in providing free legal services to a diverse array of community members. The Program spans a wide range of legal areas including wage theft, wrongful convictions, fair and just access to technology, affordable housing, new entrepreneurship, environmental justice and domestic and international indigenous rights.

“The Clinical Program is very grateful to Professor Deborah Cantrell, our previous director, who excelled at managing the myriad practice and logistical issues of running nine Clinics,” says Professor Chapin. “She wisely and consistently emphasized the importance of clinical teaching and education for our students, advocating for the program as zealously as she advocates for her clients.”

Professor Cantrell led the Clinical Program with great dedication for 16 years. During her tenure, the Clinical Program’s capacity to serve our Colorado communities markedly grew, including supporting the launch of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic, and envisioning and creating the Sustainable Community Development Clinic. Under Cantrell's leadership, the Program organized and facilitated an ongoing learning community among faculty who teach clinical courses to explore issues related to pedagogy, social justice and diversity and inclusion. It also fostered collaborations among faculty—both those who teach clinical course and those who lead experiential offerings outside of the Clinical Program.

In 2013, Professor Cantrell received the Clifford J. Calhoun Public Service award—the Law School’s highest service-related honor. Then, in 2020, Professor Cantrell received the �鶹ӰԺ County Public Health’s Heathy Community Award in recognition of her work through the Sustainable Community Development Clinic.

“It has been an honor to lead the Clinical Program, and to be a part of Colorado Law’s ongoing and sustained commitment to public service,” reflects Professor Cantrell. “The Clinical Program is a true place of collaboration and innovation. I’m grateful to my faculty and staff colleagues for their steady engagement, and to the hundreds of student attorneys who participated in the Clinical Program during my tenure and provided thousands of hours of free legal services across our communities.”

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