Scott Moss

Scott Moss teaches and researches in labor/employment law (including discrimination and wages), pretrial litigation strategy and skills (including creating several innovative experiential skills courses), constitutional law (focusing on the First Amendment), and economic and statistical analysis. Students have voted him the annual teaching award at both CU and Marquette Law Schools, as well as a University-wide award for CU student support. His research and publications include: novel empirical studies of briefwriting, law school admissions, and judicial decision-making; litigation reform proposals for class actions, discovery sequencing, and settlement confidentiality; and nationally used practice publications, and a leading casebook, in employment law.

Moss spent over six years as Director of the Colorado Division of Labor Standards and Statistics, a 130-person agency responsible for the state's labor rights enforcement (wages and hours, public sector unions, farmwork conditions, health/safety whistleblowing, equal pay by sex, and transparency in pay and job opportuinities), labor policy (rulemaking, interpretive guidance, statutory reforms, and advising the Governor and legislators) and producing and analyzing the state's labor market data. For more on his policymaking, litigation, and economics work, visit his personal webpage.

As a public interest litigator, Moss has successfully challenged restrictions on voter First Amendment rights and illegal actions against immigrants, and set precedents on racial harassment, family/medical leave, illegal "outing" of sexual orientation, rights to challenge wage theft regardless of immigration status, and innovative class action procedures. His consumer and commercial litigation includes an $11 million securities fraud, consumer fraud, and fiduciary breach verdict on rare coin investments, a business's racketeering claim against a competitor funded by tax fraud, and contract cases. He's lost about as often as he's won, because that's how litigation and life go. Moss has negotiated and mediated numerous settlements, as well as counseled employers on personnel decisions, handbooks, and compliance. Moss also has been appointed to adjudicate personnel matters for county and state government entities.

Moss's service to CU and the legal community include: chairing the law school admissions committee for 10 years, as well as two search committees for director-level staff; officer in the ABA Labor & Employment Law Section; board member in Colorado's federal court bar association; regular invitations to testify at the legislature on employment and civil rights legislation; and speaking regularly at public and continuing education events of the ABA, Colorado Bar Association, National Employment Lawyers Association and its Colorado chapter (PELA), Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, and Association of Corporate Counsel.