Clinics
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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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.
During the 2016-17 academic year, 126 student attorneys across the University of Colorado Law School’s nine clinics worked on more than 400 cases and projects, providing free legal services to many community members and groups who could not otherwise hire an attorney.
Jordan Blisk (’18) and Amanda Bauer (’17) spearheaded a free clinic at Colorado Law that helped more than 25 transgender Coloradans start the name change process.