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
- 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
- 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)
- Harold H. Bruff, “With Right and Conscience: The President’s Lawyers in the War on Terrorism”
- Phil Weiser, “Telecom’s Brave New World”
- Lakshman Guruswamy, "Sustainable Energy: A New Framework"
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
- 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"
- Jack L. Goldsmith, “The First Two Terror Presidencies”
- Carol M. Rose, “Racing Property Racially: Restrictive Covenants from the City Beautiful to Shelley v. Kraemer—and Beyond.”
