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The University of Colorado Law School will celebrate six distinguished alumni and friends at its 41st annual Alumni Awards Banquet on Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Denver.
Ann England, clinical professor at the University of Colorado Law School, is the 2020 recipient of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar鈥檚 鈥淎dvancing Justice鈥 Award. The award recognizes England鈥檚 years of teaching aspiring lawyers in Colorado Law鈥檚 Criminal Defense Clinic and serving as a role model and mentor for those new to criminal law.
On Sept. 18, University of Colorado Law School Professor Suzette Malveaux and her partner, Catherine Smith, accepted the Gerald A. Gerash Advocacy Award presented by The Center on Colfax at the center鈥檚 45th anniversary gala. The award honors those who demonstrate a history of advocacy for the LGBTQ community.
Congressman Joe Neguse ('09) announced Clinical Professor Violeta Chapin as the winner of the 2021 Polly Baca Ra铆ces Fuertes Community Leader Award in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
The University of Colorado Law School welcomed its newest class of 172 JD, 16 Master of Laws (LLM), and 7 new Master of Studies in Law (MSL) students as classes began on Aug. 23.
Doug Spencer, an election law scholar whose research addresses the role of prejudice and racial attitudes in Voting Rights Act litigation, will join the University of Colorado Law School faculty as an associate professor this fall.
As part of the University of Colorado Law School鈥檚 Anti-Racism and Representation Initiative, the law school recently announced the launch of a certificate program focused on civil rights and racial justice. Associate Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson will serve as the program's initial faculty advisor.
University of Colorado Law School Professor Kristen A. Carpenter reflects on her two terms as the North American member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Chase Velasquez, a tribal attorney with experience at the Navajo Nation Department of Justice and the San Carlos Apache Tribe鈥檚 Department of Justice, has joined the University of Colorado Law School as a visiting clinical professor and interim director of the American Indian Law Clinic.
"Justice is timeless 鈥 or at least it should be when government commits the most egregious atrocities against its own citizens," wrote Professor Suzette Malveaux, who represented survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in an opinion piece in the Washington Post.