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In its latest ranking of the best LLM programs, the International Jurist commended the University of Colorado Law School for its LLM student experience, value, career assistance, and academics. Colorado Law was the only school in the nation to be recognized in all four categories.
On Friday, May 10, 2019, the University of Colorado Law School celebrated the commencement of the Class of 2019. The ceremony recognized 157 JD graduates, nine LLM graduates, and 10 Master of Studies in Law (MSL) graduates.
Marissa Kardon Weber's ('19) passion for conflict resolution and international human rights initiatives helped her secure a highly competitive postgraduate position with the International Criminal Court’s Prosecution Division in The Hague, Netherlands, which she begins in August.
Congratulations to the 176 Colorado Law students receiving their JD, LLM, and MSL degrees. Meet just a few of our talented, motivated, and innovative graduates.
The University of Colorado Law School’s pre-tenure faculty are making waves, placing articles in top law journals and national publications, organizing workshops and conferences on cross-cutting issues, and presenting their research and scholarship at the local, national, and international levels.
The percentage of 2018 graduates employed in long-term, full-time, non-school funded jobs for which bar passage was required or a JD degree was an advantage 10 months after graduation is the highest of any class in 11 years.
The Peggy Browning Fund has selected 2L Amanda Klitzke ('20) to serve as a 2019 fellow. She will receive a stipend to pursue a 10-week summer fellowship at the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA) in Dayton, Ohio.
Harry Surden and Margot Kaminski, associate professors at the University of Colorado Law School, are leaders in exploring the future of AI and how technologies using computer-based decision making offer major prospects for breakthroughs in the law—and how those decisions are regulated. They are organizing a May 3 conference titled "Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?"
Earlier this month, the University of Colorado Law School’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic presented at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights—the third time they've done so.
A new white paper authored by Sustainable Community Development Clinic student-attorneys Daniel Franz ('20) and Fripp Prioleau ('20), under the supervision of Professor Deborah Cantrell, seeks to understand the roadblocks to solar development on the University of Colorado Boulder’s campus and serve as a roadmap to guide future proponents of solar on campus.