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The Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Law School hosted an online conference on March 12 exploring how surveillance regimes have engendered disproportionate harm to underrepresented groups based on racial, sexual, immigration, religious, and gender biases. The conference highlighted themes from Associate Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson's recent book by the same name.

Two new Dean’s Choice Awards established by the University of Colorado Law School’s Law Alumni Board—the Brooke Wunnicke Outstanding Mentor Award and the Sonny Flowers Award—will recognize alumni for their mentorship of other attorneys and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The University of Colorado Law School will celebrate eight alumni and friends at its 40th annual awards celebration on Thursday, June 17, 2021. The ceremony will be held virtually.

The campus and broader community are invited to participate in four open forums with the finalists for the dean of Colorado Law position on Feb. 3, Feb. 9, Feb. 11, and Feb. 16. The four finalists will also each meet in sessions with Colorado Law students; faculty; staff; advancement personnel; student leaders; assistant and associate deans; the provost; the dean; and the search committee.

The University of Colorado Law School is pleased to announce that voting rights activist and bestselling author Stacey Abrams will be the speaker for the Colorado Law Class of 2021 commencement recognition ceremony, which will be held virtually.

Finalist interviews will take place virtually in February, including a public session with each candidate.

Kathleen Lord, a veteran litigator whose decades of experience include positions with the Colorado State Public Defender and Federal Public Defender’s Office, has joined the University of Colorado Law School’s Korey Wise Innocence Project as a legal fellow.

University of Colorado Law School Professor Kristen Carpenter, an American Indian law scholar with expertise in property, cultural property, human rights, and Indigenous peoples, has been appointed as a justice of the inaugural Supreme Court of the Shawnee Tribe.

Dean S. James Anaya joined 156 law school deans from schools across the country in a published statement addressing the 2020 election and the events that took place in the United States Capitol last week. The statement marks a rare occasion. It is unusual for such a diverse group of law deans to come together to speak as one on an issue that falls outside the ambit of legal education.

Following a successful launch in 2020, the University of Colorado Law School’s Race and the Law lecture series will continue in 2021 with an impressive lineup of faculty and alumni speakers.