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

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  

Margot Kaminski, & Helen Norton (with Toni M. Massaro), SIRI-OUSLY 2.0 : What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment, in Robot Law: Volume II  (Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin, & Kristen Thomasen, eds.) 286 (2025). 

Helen Norton, Contesting 'Address': Conflicts Over the Words We Use to Address and Refer to Each Other, SSRN.com(forthcoming 62 Hous. L. Rev. 799 (2025)). 

Blake Reid, What Copyright Can't Do, 52 Pepp. L. Rev. 519 (2025). 

Jonathan Skinner-Thompson, The Idea of Air, SSRN.com (forthcoming, Utah L. Rev.) 

James Salzman, Mark Squillace, Sam Kalen, Michael Pappas, & James Rasband, Natural Resources Law & Policy (4th ed., 2025). 

Media mentions  

[Kristen Carpenter], Anna V. Smith, At U.N., Mining Groups Tout Protections for Indigenous People, High Country News (May 2, 2025). 

[Violeta Chapin], Kristian Lopez, 'It's an Insult': Immigrants React to $1,000 Offer from Homeland Security to Self-Deport, Fox 13 (May 7, 2025). 

[Deep Gulasekaram], Elliot Wenzler, Legal Experts Say Trump is Unlikely to Win Colorado Lawsuit Against 'Sanctuary' Policies. But He May Not Care, Denver Post (May 8, 2025). 

[Doug Spencer], Ross Rosenfeld, Republicans are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms, The New Republic (May 6, 2025). 

[Harry Surden], Liliana Salgado & Andrew Goudsward,  Family Creates AI Video to Depict Arizona Man Addressing His Killer in Court, Reuters (May 9, 2025). 

Faculty and Staff Activities 

Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns, & Money (May 2-9), blog posts available here. 

Shamika Dalton, Member Spotlight, Black Law Librarians SIS blog (May 8, 2025). 

Blake Reid's paper NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment, was listed on SSRN's Top Downloads list for: Law & Political Economy eJournal. 

Scott Skinner-Thompson (speaker), Law's Gender Ideology (King's College London, May 8, 2025); & Law's Gender Ideology (University of Brighton, May 7, 2025). 

Mark Squillace, Water Rights in the United States (Blue History Network, May 9, 2025); & Mark Squillace (panelist), "Public Access to Water Resources," at A Water's History of the United States (Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, upcoming, May 22, 2025, The Netherlands.)