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Matt Schmit Joins Silicon Flatirons as New Executive Director

Cecelia Tecu — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:32:38 +0000

Matt Schmit Joins Silicon Flatirons as New Executive Director Cecelia Tecu Mon, 11/03/2025 - 09:32

The University of Colorado Law School and the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship are pleased to announce that Matt Schmit has been named the new Executive Director of Silicon Flatirons.

Schmit joined the Silicon Flatirons team on September 29 and began his work as Director on November 1.

"I've long followed the work of the Silicon Flatirons Center and appreciated its impact on tech policy creation, its support of start-ups and innovation, and its commitment to students and their careers,” Schmit said. “Wherever possible, I've tried to replicate this approach elsewhere. I'm beyond honored to join the dynamic Silicon Flatirons team and carry its impactful legacy forward."

For the past 20 years, Matt has enjoyed consulting, research, policymaking, and program administration primarily in the areas of technology and innovation, infrastructure, and economic competitiveness.

He has worn various hats in pursuit of forward-thinking technology policy, applied research and innovation, and results-driven partnership: as a consultant engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, state legislatures, and policy issues; as academic researcher, published author, and active member of several national policy organizations; as a former state Senator, known for working with colleagues from diverse political and geographic backgrounds; and as a state official and higher education leader, focused on leveraging the full complement of higher education assets to promote technology expansion, foster strategic cross-sector collaboration, and inspire student and institutional interest and engagement.

Between 2013 and 2016 Matt represented his hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota, and surrounding areas in the Minnesota state Senate – where he championed creation of the country’s first dedicated office of broadband development and matching grant program. In this capacity, he served as chair of the Game & Fish Subcommittee; vice chair of the Jobs, Agriculture & Rural Development Committee; and active member on the Transportation Policy & Finance Conference Committee, Energy & Environment, Capital Investment, and Environment, Economic Development & Agriculture Finance committees.

More recently, Matt launched the Illinois Office of Broadband, chaired the Illinois Broadband Advisory Council, and oversaw creation of the Illinois Broadband Lab – a collaborative effort between the state and university system to build capacity, support local engagement, and meet critical federal funding deadlines.

Over his career, Matt has served on various boards and commissions, including but not limited to: the Cook County Council on Digital Equity (CODE), the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) board, the Blandin Broadband Strategies board, the St John's University Board of Regents, and the Minnesota Legislative Water Commission. He represented Minnesota on the National Conference of State Legislatures Nuclear Energy Work Group and Commerce Committee, and he was an active member of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators and State Agriculture and Rural Leaders.

Integration of 21st century infrastructure and service delivery has been a primary focus of his work – and his research. For over a decade, Matt maintained active membership on a standing committee of the Transportation Research Board, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences.

Matt received a masters in public policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a bachelors in political science from Saint John’s University (Minnesota).

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ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities

Cecelia Tecu — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:43:48 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities Cecelia Tecu Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:43

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.

Faculty Publications

Adam B. Sopko, The Supervisory Powers of State Supreme Courts, 98 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1543 (2025)

Jonathon J. Booth, A New Satanic Panic, 36 Yale J.L. & Feminism 102 (2025) (Westlaw login required).

Media Mentions

[Chris Winter], Bobby Magill, USDA to Scrap Biden Draft That Saved Imperiled Owl for New Plan, Bloomberg Law (Oct. 27, 2025).

Bobby Magill, Trump's Power to Abolish Monuments Hangs on Prolonged Ruling, Bloomberg Law (Oct. 30, 2025).

[Mark Squillace], Heather Sackett, Boaters, Anglers, Want Clarity Around Public Access to Colorado's Streams, Aspen Journalism (Oct. 27, 2025).

[Vanessa Racehorse], Amanda Pampuro, Indigenous Scholars Advocate for the Land Back Movement, Courthouse News Service (Oct. 23, 2025).

[Michael Pappas], Saqib Rahim, Insurers Flee Wildfire-Prone California Despite State Assistance, E&E News (Oct. 28, 2025).

[Ann Lipton], Maria Aspan, US Chamber of Commerce Sues Trump Over $100,000 H-1BVisa Fees, NPR Weekend Edition (Oct. 25, 2025).

Ross Kerber, Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Pay Deal Draws Ire of Labor Unions, Others, as Shareholder Vote Nears, Reuters (Oct. 29, 2025).

[S. James Anaya], Eve Thomas, Mining's Forgotten 'S': Has Decarbonisation Obscured the Social Angle of ESG?, Mining Technology (Oct. 30, 2025).

Faculty and Staff Activities

Sloan Speck, TaxProf Blog posts available here.

Professor Sloan Speck Joins TaxProf Blog Team of Editors, Colorado Law (Oct. 29, 2025).

Blake Reid (panelist), Other Government Challenges, Connecticut Law Review Symposium: The Fourth Estate in a Time of Crisis (Oct. 22, 2025).

Amanda Parsons (panelist), Teaching Taxation Section, Taxation of Digital Assets After Loper Bright, ABA Virtual Fall Meeting (Oct. 22, 2025).

Amanda Parsons (presenter), University of Florida’s 21st Annual International Tax Symposium (upcoming, Oct. 31, 2025).

Ann Lipton, Business Law Prof Blog, blog posts available here.

Universal Proxy After Three Years, Shareholder Primacy (Oct. 29, 2025)(with Mike Levin, Apple podcasts link).

Violeta Chapin, AllSTARS Workshop with Violeta Chapin: Immigration Law and Policy, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (Oct. 27, 2025).

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, blog posts available here.

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Professor Sloan Speck Joins TaxProf Blog Team of Editors

Cecelia Tecu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:07:02 +0000

Professor Sloan Speck Joins TaxProf Blog Team of Editors Cecelia Tecu Wed, 10/29/2025 - 09:07

The Press Release below was Initially Published by the AALS on Oct. 23, 2025. View the original piece here.

Congratulations to Professor Sloan Speck, who recently joined TaxProf Blog as one of their new editors. The blog is widely respected and influential, and focuses on U.S. tax law, legal education, and scholarship, news, and policymaking in these areas. Created and maintained by Paul L. Caron, Dean of Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, TaxProf Blog ran on the Typepad platform from April 2004 to September 2025, publishing over 55,000 posts. It was recently acquired and is now hosted by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), who will “... maintain the blog’s archives and host new content and personal reflections from Caron and a team of editors.”

“I am honored and thrilled to be named an editor of TaxProf Blog 2.0, and I am excited for my expanded role in producing and managing content for this public platform. I look forward to continuing Dean Caron’s important work for members of the tax community, law school faculty, and general audiences.”

Sloan Speck is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Speck’s teaching and research focus on federal income taxation, with an emphasis on business entity taxation, tax planning, and tax policy. Professor Speck also has scholarly interests in legal education and pedagogy. Read the full press release below.

Press Release: Association of American Law Schools Welcomes TaxProf Blog to its News and Information Hub

We are pleased to announce that AALS is now the exclusive host of TaxProf Blog, a leading source for news, scholarship, and commentary on legal education and tax law for over 20 years. The blog is now available at taxprofblog.aals.org. Founded in 2004 by Paul L. Caron (Dean, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law), TaxProf Blog shut down on September 30 of this year due to the closure of the blogging platform Typepad. This marked the loss of an essential resource for the legal and academic communities: over 800,000 deans, professors, students, lawyers, and others visit TaxProf Blog each year. It is widely read by law professors and lawyers and was named to ABA Journal’s “Blawg 100” in 2013, as well as its “Hall of Fame.”

The AALS acquisition ensures the preservation of TaxProf Blog’s archives and its continued role in providing timely and relevant information to the legal education and tax law communities.

“Led by Paul Caron, TaxProf Blog has been a cornerstone for law school deans, law professors, and tax lawyers for decades and we are honored to bring it back and build on its legacy,” said Kellye Y. Testy, AALS Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. “This addition reflects our commitment to creating resources for legal educators and helping build communities of scholars. We plan to develop similar resources in other substantive areas in the future and we are grateful to Dean Caron for his partnership in launching this effort.”

AALS will maintain the blog’s archives and host new content and personal reflections from Caron and a team of editors. Readers can expect the same news and posts on scholarship, events, data, commentary, and analysis that they have come to expect from the site.

“I could not be more excited about partnering with AALS to keep TaxProf Blog going,” said Caron. “This collaboration will guarantee the blog’s continued growth and accessibility, serving as a vital source of information for legal educators, scholars, and practitioners. I’m pleased to ensure the site’s continuity for years to come with the support of AALS and a community of legal education editors and tax editors.”

The Tax Editors on TaxProf Blog are:

Andrew D. Appleby, University of Tennessee Winston College of Law

Conor Clarke, Washington University School of Law

Jon Endean, Brooklyn Law School

Deanna Newton, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law

Shu-Yi Oei, Duke Law School

Sloan Speck, University of Colorado Law School

Legal Education Editors on TaxProf Blog are:

Alena Allen, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Michael Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Austen Parrish, AALS President and Dean, University of California Irvine School of Law

Michael Hunter Schwartz, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Additional editors and contributors will be announced in the coming weeks. Currently, the relaunched site hosts recent posts and archived content from 2004-13. The remaining historical posts will be added and the entire archive of more than 50,000 posts will be available in November.

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ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities

Cecelia Tecu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:52:09 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities Cecelia Tecu Wed, 10/29/2025 - 08:52

Faculty Publications

Blake Reid, Separation of Copyright Powers, SSRN.com (forthcoming, 49 Seattle L. Rev. Online, abstract only). Blake Reid, Separation of Copyright Powers, SSRN.com (forthcoming, 49 Seattle L. Rev. Online, abstract only).

Media Mentions

[Mark Squillace], Hannah Northey, 'Test Case' for NEPA: Fast Tracked Mine Reviews Fuel Outcry, E&E News (Oct. 21, 2025).

[Blake Reid], Shira Ovide, The Fight Between AI Companies and the Websites that Hate Them, Washington Post (Oct. 24, 2025).

Faculty and Staff Activities

[Harry Surden, Scott Skinner-Thompson, Wadie Said, Margot Kaminski, Maryam Jamshidi, Jennifer Hendricks, & Alexia Brunet Marks], Colorado Law Names New Professorships, Dean's Scholars Award Receipients, Colorado Law (Oct. 22, 2025).

[Sloan Speck], James Greif, Association of American Law Schools Welcomes TaxProf Blog to its News and Information Hub, TaxProf Blog (Oct. 23, 2025).

Blake Reid (fireside chat participant), The IP-Labor Interface, Silicon Flatirons Center x Ethics Series (upcoming, Nov. 6, 2025).

Blake Reid & Gabrielle Daley (moderators), AI & the Future of Copyright Politics, Silicon Flatirons Center (upcoming, Nov. 7, 2025).

Govind Persad (panelist), Exploring the Concept of “Waste” in Clinical Decision-Making and Healthcare Policies, American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Annual Conference (Portland, OR, upcoming, Oct. 25, 2025)(with Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-C; Olivia Kates, MD, MA; Maria Merritt, PhD.)

Ann Lipton, Business Law Prof Blog, blog posts available here.

Shareholder Proposals and Delaware Law, Shareholder Primacy (Oct. 22, 2025)(with Mike Levin, Apple podcasts link).

Margot Kaminski's Regulating the Risks of AI, was listed on SSRN's Top Downloads for: Data Science, Data Analytics & Informatics eJournal.

[Violeta Chapin], Professor Violeta Chapin Receives Women Who Light the Community Award, Colorado Law (Oct. 22, 2025).

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, blog posts available here.

Daniel Anderson [GWC Water Law Fellow], Could Good Samaritans Fix America's Abandoned Hardrock Mine Problem?, GWC (Oct. 20, 2025).

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Colorado Law names new Professorships, Dean’s Scholars Award Recipients

Cecelia Tecu — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:20:38 +0000

Colorado Law names new Professorships, Dean’s Scholars Award Recipients Cecelia Tecu Wed, 10/22/2025 - 09:20

Colorado Law is thrilled to announce our newest Professorships, along with the three recipients of the Dean’s Scholar Awards. These individuals already bring their valuable expertise, leadership, and scholarship to our faculty, and we look forward to their continued impact. Please join us in extending our sincerest congratulations to them.

Alexia Brunet Marks

Dean’s Scholar Award

Alexia Brunet Marks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Brunet Marks is a globally recognized food law scholar who researches the connections between our prevailing food system and its effects on food safety, nutrition, agricultural labor and soil health. She teaches Food Law and Policy, Torts, International Business Transactions and International Trade Law. Her recent work on regenerative agriculture was selected for the 2025 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review. She has published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Harvard Journal on Regulation, and the North Carolina Law Review, and has authored several book chapters.

“I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this prestigious research award,” said Brunet Marks. “It brings me great joy to contribute to this talented research faculty and to make meaningful impacts in the communities that I serve.”

Maryam Jamshidi

Dean’s Scholar Award

Maryam Jamshidi is an Associate Professor of Law who teaches and writes in the areas of national security law, public international law, the law of foreign relations, and tort law. In particular, her scholarship focuses on the relationship between the private sphere and national security, as well as the law of foreign relations. In exploring these dynamics, Professor Jamshidi's work draws on political and critical theory, as well as sociology. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Harvard National Security Journal, amongst others. She also regularly publishes in popular media outlets.

"I’m honored to be selected as a Dean’s Scholar,” Jamshidi shared. “Colorado Law has a venerable history of excellent and innovative legal scholarship. I hope to contribute to that legacy over the period of my award and beyond."

Scott Skinner-Thompson

Dean’s Scholar Award

Scott's Skinner-Thompson's research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, civil rights, and privacy law, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and HIV issues. His current work focuses on the legal construction of gender and legal protections for transgender people, including his article, Identity by Committee, a 2024 recipient of a Dukeminier Award for best LGBTQ law review articles. His other scholarship has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, and Columbia Law Review Online, and he served as editor of and contributing author to AIDS and the Law (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed., 2016; 6th ed., 2020). His shorter work has appeared in Slate, Salon, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

Skinner-Thompson shared: “I’m truly moved to receive this recognition and look forward to continuing to work with my tremendous colleagues to produce cutting-edge legal scholarship that, hopefully, improves people’s daily lives.”

Wadie Said

Nicholas Rosenbaum Professorship

Wadie Said is a professor of law whose scholarship analyzes the challenges inherent in adjudicating issues that touch on foreign policy, national security, and criminal law more broadly. His most recent work has appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the South Carolina Law Review, among others. He is the author of Crimes of Terror (Oxford University Press 2015, paperback 2018), a comprehensive study of the modern terrorism prosecution, covering such topics as coercive interrogation, the use of informants, and the ban on providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. He is currently at work on a book on the role of the Palestinian question in shaping American law, which is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, immigration law, and seminars in international human rights, counterterrorism, and advanced criminal justice.

“It is a great honor to have been awarded the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professorship, especially as its stated mission is to recognize individuals for their scholarship, and also given the many distinguished holders of this chair in the past,” Said said. “My goal is to attempt to live up to this impressive and prominent legacy by producing scholarly work commensurate with the chair’s prominence.”

Jennifer Hendricks

Henry S. and Jean Naylor Lindsley Memorial Professorship

Jennifer Hendricks joined the CU faculty in 2012, teaching family law and civil procedure. She previously taught at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Her research interests include sex equality and sex differences, constitutional family law, equality in sports, and relational feminist theory. Professor Hendricks studied mathematics and women's studies at Swarthmore College and law at Harvard University. She then practiced plaintiffs' trial and appellate litigation in Montana, where she specialized in constitutional, employment, and discrimination cases.

“I’m grateful to hold the Lindsley professorship, and I’m looking forward to asking our research librarians to help me find out about the lives of Henry and Jean Lindsley and the legacy they left to the law school,” Hendricks said. “For me, this professorship marks a shift in my research agenda from the law of pregnancy and motherhood to whether and how social/legal institutions (like families, juries, and universities) can promote democracy and serve as havens for value systems other than neoliberal selfishness.”

Margot Kaminski

Moses Lasky Professorship

Margot Kaminski's work specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. Recently, her work has focused on AI Law; she is currently drafting a leading co-authored casebook in the field. In 2018, Professor Kaminski conducted research on comparative data privacy law as a recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant. In 2024, she conducted research on comparative AI Law at the European University Institute (EUI) as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow and recipient of a 2024 Fulbright-Schuman Grant. She is a 2024-25 Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

"It's a true honor to be awarded the Moses Lasky Professorship, and a responsibility I don't take lightly,” Kaminski said. “Lasky was one of our most distinguished alumni, who combined high intellectual achievement with a dedication to civic involvement and public service. I understand and value this legacy, and am grateful for the recognition and support for my ongoing work."

Harry Surden

Hatfield Professorship

Harry Surden’s research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and law. Recognized as a leading scholar in this field, Professor Surden is known for originating the concept of "computable contracts" and for his widely-cited articles on topics such as AI Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, AI ethics and loyalty, computable law, machine learning and law, autonomous systems, as well as related work on patent law, copyright law, and information privacy law.

“I’m honored to be named the Hatfield Professor of Law,” Surden said. “This recognition is especially meaningful as it echoes the incredible career of Dale Hatfield, a pioneer in telecommunications and technology policy, and also supports my own ongoing research at the intersection of law, technology, and public policy."

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Emily Battaglia — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:45:27 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities Emily Battaglia Mon, 10/20/2025 - 09:45

Faculty Publications

Helen Norton, Fear and Free Speech, 98 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1351 (2025).

Media Mentions

[Scott Skinner-Thompson], U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Transgender Bridgeport Athlete This Fall, WDTV (Oct. 7, 2025).

Liz Lane, It's the Economy, KGNU News (Oct. 16, 2025).

[Ann Lipton], Alexandra White, Glass Lewis to End Benchmark Voting Recommendations on Proxy Issues, Financial Times (Oct. 14, 2025) (Register for your Financial Times direct subscription through your @colorado.edu email here).

Stephen Lewis & Alexandra White, Proxy Advisor ISS Says Tesla Investors Should Oppose $1tn Elon Musk Pay Deal, Financial Times (Oct. 17, 2025).

Mike Leonard, Musk's $56 Billion Pay Appeal Puts Delaware Courts in a Corner, Bloomberg Law (Oct. 16, 2025).

Faculty and Staff Activities

Govind Persad (speaker), Equal Concern —Not Equal Treatment—Should Guide Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions, University of Colorado Center for Values and Social Policy (Oct. 17, 2025).

Ann Lipton, Business Law Prof Blog, blog posts available here.

Majority Vote Standards, Shareholder Arbitration, Shareholder Primacy (Oct. 15, 2025) (with Mike Levin, Apple podcasts link).

Patrick Dolan, Pros and Cons of Mandatory Reporting, Securitization Insight (Oct. 13, 2025).

Margot Kaminski & Andrew D. Selbst's An American’s Guide to the EU AI Act listed on SSRN's Top Papers on AI in Law Q3 2025 (Oct. 3, 2025).

[Deep Gulasekaram, Byron White Center], Emily Battaglia, Judge Roopali H. Desai to Deliver 14th Annual Stevens Lecture, Colorado Law (Oct. 2, 2025), lecture scheduled for Oct. 28, 2025, register here.

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, blog posts available here.

Eric Kuhn, Anne Castle, John Fleck, Kathryn Sorenson, Jack Schmidt, & Katherine Tara, The 1922 Compact is Now the Obvious Elephant in the Negotiating Room, GWC (Oct. 7, 2025).

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Emily Battaglia — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:38:11 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities Emily Battaglia Mon, 10/13/2025 - 12:38

Media Mentions

[Mark Squillace], Wyatt Myskow, As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency 'Crisis', Environmentalists Warn, Inside Climate News (Oct. 6, 2025).

[Scott Skinner-Thompson], Elizabeth Hernandez, U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in First Amendment Challenge to Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban, Denver Post (Oct. 5, 2025).

Stephen Humphries, Sophie Hills, & Cameron Pugh, In First Big Case of the Term, Supreme Court Tackles Free Speech and LGBTQ Rights, Christian Science Monitor (Oct. 7, 2025).

[Matt Schmit, SFC], On the Move, Telecommunications Report (Oct. 10, 2025)(Lexis login required).

[Ann Lipton], Sarah Jarvis, Exxon Retail Voting Program Green Light Inspires Other Cos., Law360 (Oct. 8, 2025).

Faculty & Staff Activities

Chris Winter (moderator), Mark Squillace (panelist), Vanessa Racehorse (moderator), Sarah Krakoff (speaker), Martz Symposium on Public Lands, Getches-Wilkinson Center (upcoming, Oct. 23-24, 2025).

Adam Sopko (speaker), "The Power of State Constitutional Rights," a symposium sponsored by the Brennan Center's State Court Report and Northwestern University Law Review (upcoming Nov. 6-7, 2025).

Ann Lipton, Business Law Prof Blog, blog posts available here.

M & A Litigation, Corporate Personhood, Shareholder Primacy (Oct. 8, 2025)(with Mike Levin, Apple podcasts link).

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, blog posts available here.

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Emily Battaglia — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:54:38 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities Emily Battaglia Mon, 10/06/2025 - 09:54

Faculty Publications

Kristen A. Carpenter (with David H. Getches, Charles F. Wilkinson, Robert A. Williams Jr., Matthew L.M. Fletcher, & Wenona T. Singel), Cases & Materials in Federal Indian Law, 8th ed. (2025).

Media Mentions

[Scott Skinner-Thompson], Kelsey Reichmann, The Roberts Court Turns 20, Courthouse News Service (Sept. 29, 2025)

Bradley Cortwright, Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Case Challenging Colorado's Ban on 'Conversion The rapy', New York Sun (Sept. 27, 2025).

Wadie Said, US Plan Fits Into Historical Refusal to Acknowledge Palestinian National Rights, Al Jazeera English (Oct. 2, 2025).

[Dale Hatfield, SFC], Paul Kirby, NTIA Cites 'Limited Resources,' in Scrapping CSMAC, TR Daily (Oct. 1, 2025)(Lexis login required).

[Violeta Chapin], Seth Klamann, Trump Hasn't Targeted Denver With Troops, But Officials Weigh Plans in Case of Federal 'Overreach', Denver Post (Sept. 30, 2025).

[Ann Castle, GWC], Allen Best, These 'Traveling Wilburys' of the Colorado River are Being Heard, Big Pivots (Sept. 28, 2025).

Faculty and Staff Activities

Paige Wilson, "How Startups Get Started," Colorado Mini Law School (upcoming, Oct. 8, 2025).

Adam Sopko (speaker), "State Constitutions in Times of Federal Uncertainty", Univ. Kan. L. Rev. Symp. (upcoming, Oct. 17, 2025).

Govind Persad (speaker), “Regulating a ‘Miracle Drug’: GLP-1 Costs, Access, & Safety”, National Academy of Medicine's Health in the Headlines series, (Oct. 8, 2025,).

Ann Lipton, Business Law Prof Blog, blog posts available here.

Mandatory Arbitration, Shareholder Primacy (Oct. 1, 2025)(with Mike Levin, Apple podcasts link).

T. Markus Funk & Chief US District Judge Virginia Kendall’s A Blueprint for Protecting US Companies from Unfair Competition Fueled by Forced Labor, (U. Chi. L. Rev., Sept. 20, 2025), was listed on SSRN's Top Downloads list on October 1, 2025, for: International, Transnational & Comparative Criminal Law eJournal and Law & Society: Public Law - Crime, Criminal Law, & Punishment eJournal.

[Kristen A. Carpenter], Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Getches, Wilkinson, Williams, Fletcher, Carpenter, and Singel’s Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law, 8th Edition (Oct. 6, 2025), Turtle Talk Blog (Sept. 19, 2025).

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, blog posts available here.

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Tireless advocacy for justice earns Professor Ann England Chase Faculty Community Service Award

Emily Battaglia — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:29:01 +0000

Tireless advocacy for justice earns Professor Ann England Chase Faculty Community Service Award Emily Battaglia Thu, 10/02/2025 - 13:29

This article was originally published by CU Connections on Sept. 25, 2025. View the publication here.

Professor Ann England has been a driving force in Colorado’s legal community for nearly two decades, championing the wrongfully convicted, training the next generation of lawyers and providing pro bono defense for those most in need. This year, her extraordinary service has been recognized with the University of Colorado’s Chase Faculty Community Service Award.

"I am deeply honored to receive the Chase Faculty Community Service Award, but this recognition truly belongs to the incredible students, colleagues, and community partners I’ve had the privilege to work alongside," England said. "Together, we’ve fought to free the wrongfully convicted, improve fairness in our courts, and train the next generation of lawyers committed to justice. I am grateful to CU, to my students, the KWIP staff and to the communities we serve for reminding me every day why this work matters."

England, the Schaden Chair for Experiential Learning and Clinical Law Professor at Colorado Law, directs the school’s Criminal Defense Clinic. Her leadership and service extend far beyond campus, where her volunteer work has inspired colleagues, students, judges and attorneys across the state and nation.

In 2015, England founded the Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) at Colorado Law, thanks to a generous gift from Central Park Five exoneree Korey Wise. What began as years of reviewing handwritten letters from prisoners has become a nationally recognized program staffed with full-time attorneys, student advocates and policy leaders.

KWIP provides free legal and investigative services for incarcerated Coloradans with credible innocence claims, develops policy reform initiatives and delivers curricula on wrongful convictions to high school students. England continues to volunteer her time to the project, declining compensation for her role as faculty director.

Strengthening death penalty defense

England also co-leads the National College of Capital Voir Dire, a nonprofit that trains death penalty defense attorneys in effective jury selection. She organizes and hosts an annual three-day conference at CU Boulder, bringing in about 100 lawyers to learn the “Colorado Method” – a nationally recognized standard for capital jury selection. Her work has helped strengthen capital defense nationwide and contributed to the significant decline in death sentences over the last decade.

England’s service began long before she joined CU’s faculty, working nearly a decade as a public defender. She continues to represent indigent clients – including those experiencing homelessness – during summers when students are away. Colleagues describe her taking on dozens of cases each week with hardly any support, motivated purely by her commitment to justice.

She also has provided critical training and technical assistance to attorneys in municipal courts, elevating the quality of representation for low-income Coloradans. Judges and attorneys alike have praised her as an invaluable resource in efforts to improve fairness in local courts.

Beyond the courtroom

England’s community service reaches far beyond the legal system. She serves on the board of ACLU Colorado, coaches high school mock trial teams, and even lends her creativity as a designer to the Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center, crafting couture dresses from condoms for the nonprofit’s fundraising events.

Her students, many of whom now serve as public defenders and advocates, describe her as a mentor whose influence has shaped not just their careers but their sense of civic responsibility.

In recognizing England, the selection committee highlighted the breadth and depth of her contributions, from exonerations and policy reforms to mentorship and grassroots advocacy. She will be honored Monday at a reception at CU Boulder.

“Professor Ann England’s unwavering commitment to justice and tireless advocacy for the wrongfully convicted have transformed Colorado’s legal landscape, making her so deserving of the Chase Faculty Community Service Award,” said Joe Coleman, JPMorgan Chase business banking market manager. “Through founding the Korey Wise Innocence Project and leading national efforts in death penalty defense, she has inspired generations of lawyers and elevated the quality of representation for those most in need. JPMorgan Chase is proud to sponsor this award, celebrating extraordinary service and leadership that strengthens our communities and advances the cause of justice.”

The Chase Faculty Community Service Award – established in 1991 with a $100,000 donation – is funded annually by an endowment from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation through the CU Foundation. The endowment provides an annual award of $10,000 to a full-time faculty member at the University of Colorado who has rendered exceptional service in his or her community.

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Emily Battaglia — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:01:14 +0000

ICYMI: Faculty Publications, Media Mentions, and Faculty & Staff Activities Emily Battaglia Mon, 09/29/2025 - 10:01

Faculty Publications

Blake Reid, The Broadcaster's Obligation to Resist Jawboning (SSRN.com, forthcoming Conn. L. Rev. 2025, abstract available).

T. Markus Funk [Colorado Law adjunct faculty] & Chief US District Judge Virginia Kendall (Chicago), A Blueprint for Protecting US Companies from Unfair Competition Fueled by Forced Labor, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (Sept. 20, 2025).

Media Mentions

[Mark Squillace], Miranda Willson, Does EPA Want Public Comment or Not?, E&E Greenwire (Sept. 24, 2025).

[Doug Spencer], Natalie Fertig, Why Democrats Can't Match Trump's Gerrymander Push, Politico (Sept. 22, 2025)(article & quote coverage includes Election Law Blog).

[Matt Schmit, SFC], Silicon Flatirons Center Executive Director, TR Daily (Sept. 25, 2025)(Lexis login required).

[Ann Lipton], Ben Miller, Martina Barash, & Gillian R. Brassil, Investor Attorneys Slam SEC Curbing Court Access Over IPO Fraud, Bloomberg Law (Sept. 22, 2025).

Jeff Montgomery, Delaware Judge Calls for Civility After 'Annus Horribilis', Law360 (Sept. 18, 2025).

Martina Barash & Gillian R. Brassil, SEC on Arbitration Sparks Strategies to Counter its Effect, Bloomberg Law (Sept. 24, 2025).

Max Scheinblum, Inspirato Founders Request Company Records After Failed Exclusive Resorts Takeover Bid, Denver Post (Sept. 25, 2025).

[Violeta Chapin], Allison Sherry, How Do You Legally Immigrate to the United States?, Colorado Public Radio (Sept. 15, 2025).

Paul Campos, Is Law School Only for the Rich? How the Legal Profession Became a Luxury Good, Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept. 18, 2025).

Staff and Faculty Activities

Ann Lipton, Business Law Prof Blog, blog posts available here.

Quarterly Reporting, XOM, Shareholder Primacy (Sept. 24, 2025)(with Mike Levin, Apple podcasts link).

Margot Kaminski (book discussant), Prof. Solove's On Privacy & Technology, GW Center for Law & Technology (Sept. 25, 2025).

T. Markus Funk & Chief US District Judge Virginia Kendall’s article, The New FCPA Guidelines Invite US-Company Whistleblowing Against Corrupt Foreign Competitors, ABA Criminal Justice Section Newsletter, makes SSRN Criminal Law eJournal Top Ten List.

A Blueprint for protecting US companies from unfair competition fueled by Forced Labor , White & Case LLP (Sept. 24, 2025).

[Ann England], Tireless Advocacy for Justice Earns CU Law Professor Chase Faculty Community Service Award, CU Connections (Sept. 25, 2025).

Bryan Choi, "Open Source AI, Open Source Liability,"Colorado Mini Law School (upcoming, Oct. 1, 2025).

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, blog posts available here.

Brad Bernthal & Brad Feld, "Brad & Brad on Give First: A Public Conversation," Colorado Law Silicon Flatirons Center (upcoming, Oct. 3, 2025).

[Ann England, Jessica Bernfeld, Shalifa Cambrelen-Hogan, Katie Glynn], Emily Battaglia, Colorado Law Welcomes New KWIP, Clinical Staff, Colorado Law (Sept. 24, 2025).

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