Byron White Center News

The Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado Law School will host a virtual speaker series this fall exploring topics including police reform, citizenship, protest lawyering, voting rights, racial justice, and critical race theory.

Scholars and legal practitioners from across the country gathered virtually on April 3, 2020, for the University of Colorado Law School’s 28th annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference. This year’s conference marked the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and considered the continuing fight to secure voting rights, political representation for all, and women’s empowerment. Pictured L-R: Suzette Malveaux, Colorado Law; Reva Siegel, Yale Law; Carolyn Ramsey, Colorado Law; Julie Suk, CUNY Graduate Center.

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.

Associate Justice Elena Kagan of the Supreme Court of the U.S. will visit the University of Colorado Boulder campus Oct. 22-23, 2019, giving the University of Colorado Law School’s John Paul Stevens Lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at Macky Auditorium and meeting with students during select events.

On September 4, 2019 from 12:00-1:00 pm the Student Chapter of the American Constitution Society, along with the Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law , will host a talk with Caroline Fredrickson—President* of the American Constitution Society and author of a new book, “ The Democracy...

On March 21-24, 2019, University of Colorado Law School Professor Suzette Malveaux and Associate Professor Craig Konnoth attended the Fourth National People of Color (NPOC) Legal Scholarship Conference , the largest gathering of legal scholars of color in history. Approximately 600 law professors and scholars from across the United States...

Each year, the Byron White Center’s Marshall-Brennan Project chapter partners a select group of Colorado Law students (teaching fellows) with public school teachers in underserved high schools to teach a course about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The project also enables the high school students to participate in...

Suzette Malveaux, Provost Professor of Civil Rights Law and Director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law , joined African-American women law professors from across the country for the 13th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop and Writing Retreat , held...