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The Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment at the University of Colorado Law School has raised $840,000 to launch a first-of-its-kind fellows program that will train the next generation of natural resource leaders.

University of Colorado Law School Associate Professor Ming Hsu Chen was one of 13 faculty members across the CU Boulder campus selected to participate in the Research & Innovation Office's (RIO) 2020 Faculty Fellows cohort. The Faculty Fellows program supports CU Boulder’s most promising faculty in achieving their research goals and promotes collaboration by "shrinking the campus."

An interdisciplinary team led by the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School, in partnership with Dr. Scott E. Palo and CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, had a role in influencing groundbreaking national policy for small satellites at the Federal Communications Commission.

As an incoming law student, Vanessa Cortez ('20) didn’t have many connections to the legal profession. Relationships built at Colorado Law and beyond helped Cortez grow her support network and advance toward her goal of helping Coloradans in need.

As declines in the Colorado River's flow pose a risk of forced water curtailments in the coming decades in Colorado and the rest of the Upper Colorado River Basin, communities should consider what kind of insurance is needed, argues a new report coauthored by Anne Castle ('81), senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at the University of Colorado Law School.

On Oct. 22, 2019, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan spoke to a sold-out crowd of over 2,000 people at CU Boulder’s Macky Auditorium—with hundreds more watching via livestream nationwide and internationally. The fireside-chat style event was moderated by Provost Professor of Civil Rights Law and Director of the White Center Suzette Malveaux.

Professor Helen Norton, who holds the Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Chair in Constitutional Law, will deliver the 45th annual Austin W. Scott Jr. Lecture on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 5:30 p.m. in Wittemyer Courtroom. The lecture is presented annually by a member of the faculty engaged in a significant scholarly project selected by the dean.

The University of Colorado Law School will celebrate six alumni and friends of the law school at its 39th annual awards banquet on Thursday, March 12, 2020, at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver.

Constitutional law tends to focus on the rules that apply to what the government does—like the rules that apply to the laws that the government enacts to the government’s taxes and the government’s decisions to arrest and imprison. What’s less clear are the constitutional rules that apply to what the government says. In her new book, The Government’s Speech and the Constitution, constitutional law scholar and Professor Helen Norton investigates the variety and abundance of government speech.

We spoke to four alumni making their mark in entrepreneurial and business law.