Faculty Colloquia & Distinguished Lecturers
Schultz Lectureship Series
The Schultz Lectureship Fund was created in 2007 by the generosity of John H. (’53) and Cynthia H. Schultz to support a lecture each year by scholars in the fields of oil and gas, energy, or natural resources law.
Recent lecturers and topics have included
- Jim Burke, "The Oil-Water Nexus: Where Development Meets the Environment."(watch video)
- Tony Clark, "Ensuring Reliability and a Fair Energy Marketplace." (watch video)
- Jeff Bingaman, "Energy Innovation Series and 5th Annual Schultz Lecture" (watch video)
- Dr. Daniel Yergin, "The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World"
- Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, "Addressing the Nation's Energy Challenges" (watch video)
- James E. Rogers, “A National Energy Policy for the 21st Century” (watch video)
- Bruce Kramer, “Split Estates: A New Equilibrium between Surface and Mineral Owners”
Austin W. Scott, Jr. Lecture Series
Austin Scott was a member of the Law School faculty for 20 years. He was an excellent and much beloved teacher as well as a prolific writer. His scholarly work was in the fields of criminal law and procedure. In 1973, former Colorado Law Dean Don W. Sears established the Lecture Series in his memory. Each year, the Dean of the Law School selects a member of the faculty engaged in a significant scholarly project to lecture on his or her research.
Recent lecturers and topics have included
- Scott Moss, "No Longer a Second-Class Class Action? Finding Common Ground in the Debate over Wage Collective Actions with Best Practices for Litigation and Adjudication" (watch video)
- Jennifer S. Hendricks, "Essentially a Mother" (watch video)
- Frederic Bloom, "Silence and Noise" (watch video)
- Kristen Carpenter, "Indigenous Peoples and the Jurisgenerative Moment in Human Rights" (watch video)
- Melissa Hart, "Some Ethical Obligation of the Modern Law School" (watch video)
- Amy Schmitz, "Access to Consumer Remedies in the Squeaky Wheel System" (watch video)
- Aya Gruber, "Murder, Minority Victims, and Mercy: The Problem of Sexist and Racist Leniency in Murder Cases" (watch video)
- Carolyn Ramsey, "Intimate-Partner Violence and State Intervention: A New Historical Perspective" (watch video)
- Scott Peppet, "Augmented Reality & Freedom of Contract" (watch video)
- Ahmed White, “The ‘Little Steel’ Strike of 1937: Class Struggle, Law, and the Limits of New Deal Liberalism” (watch video)
- Dayna Bowen Matthew, “A Legal Prescription for Health Care Disparities in America” (watch video)
John R. Coen Lecture Series
John Coen was a distinguished member of the Colorado bar and an able public speaker. In 1955, his widow Adrian S. Coen, established the lectureship in his memory. The purpose is to bring a prominent and distinguished lawyer, jurist, or scholar of law to deliver an annual lecture to Colorado Law’s students and faculty on a legal subject of interest and benefit to the profession, preferably with some public or political aspect.
Recent lecturers and topics have included
- Gregory B. Craig, "A Question about the State of Our Union: Is the Rule of Law Strong?" (watch video)
- Lucinda A. Low, "The Trump Administration and International Law and Institutions" (watch video)
- Eric L. Talley, "Is Law a Driverless Car? Assessing How (or Whether) the Data Analytics Revolution Will Transform the Legal Profession" (watch video)
- Dan Kahan, "Are judges politically biased? An experimental examination." (listen to podcast)
- William L. Ury, "Getting to Yes in the World: Reflections 30 Years Later" (watch video)
- Angela P. Harris, "The Treadmill and the Contract: Race, Class and the Environment in American Law" (watch video)
- Geoffrey R. Stone, "The Framers' Constitution: An Answer to the Current Supreme Court's Conservative Activism" (watch video)
- William Eskridge, "Discrimination to Protect Liberty" (watch video)
- Cass R. Sunstein, “Are Judges Political? Bush, Confirmations and Beyond”
- Michael McConnell, “Religion and Republicanism at the Founding”
- Martha Fineman, “Children in Law and Society: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights”
- Erwin Chemerinsky, "The Assault on the Press"