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- Harry Surden and Margot Kaminski, associate professors at the University of Colorado Law School, are leaders in exploring the future of AI and how technologies using computer-based decision making offer major prospects for breakthroughs in the law鈥攁nd how those decisions are regulated. They are organizing a May 3 conference titled "Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?"
- Earlier this month, the University of Colorado Law School鈥檚 Technology Law and Policy Clinic presented at the World Intellectual Property Organization鈥檚 Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights鈥攖he third time they've done so.
- A new white paper authored by Sustainable Community Development Clinic student-attorneys Daniel Franz ('20) and Fripp Prioleau ('20), under the supervision of Professor Deborah Cantrell, seeks to understand the roadblocks to solar development on the 麻豆免费版下载鈥檚 campus and serve as a roadmap to guide future proponents of solar on campus.
- This spring break, 13 students in Professors Ann England and Colene Robinson鈥檚 Comparative Criminal Law class looked at the law through a different lens in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Nearly two years ago, Liz Kashinski (鈥19) had just wrapped up her first year at the University of Colorado Law School when she got an opportunity to step out of studying doctrinal law and step into the world of entrepreneurship and collaborative problem solving, ultimately helping to create a new way to decrease isolation for older adults.
- A panel of experts including Phil Weiser, Colorado attorney general; Violeta Chapin, associate clinical professor of law; Ming Hsu Chen, associate professor of law and director of the Immigration Law and Policy Program at Colorado Law; and Peter Roos, formerly with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, discussed the history and current implications of Plyler vs. Doe, the landmark case brought to the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that no state could pass a law barring undocumented children from public schools.
- First-Generation Law Student Johnnie Nguyen (鈥21) Elected National Chair of ABA Law Student DivisionJohnnie Nguyen (鈥21), a 1L at the University of Colorado Law School, was elected chair of the Law Student Division Council of the American Bar Association.
- Zach Mountin, the incoming director of the Civil Practice Clinic, will roll out a new employment law component of the clinic focused on representing low-income wage workers and workers facing discrimination.
- A Feb. 25 panel discussion titled 鈥淟awyers and Judges of Color Balance the Scales鈥 commemorated Black History Month by drawing attention to the contributions of lawyers and judges of color across Colorado and the nation.
- Robert A. Williams Jr., Regents' Professor, E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and faculty co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, delivered the John R. Coen Lecture on March 15, 2019, at 11:30 a.m. in Wittemyer Courtroom at the University of Colorado Law School. He spoke on the topic 鈥淲hy Do We Need a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?"