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The American Indian Law Program (AILP) at the University of Colorado Law school is thrilled to welcome Hannah Ahders ’25 as the 2025-26 AILP fellow. In this role, Ahders will work with AILP faculty, students, and community members in support of American Indian and Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

On June 5-6, the Getches-Wilkinson Center and the Water & Tribes Initiative hosted the 45th Annual Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources. As efforts to finalize the post-2026 Interim Guidelines ramp up, the aptly titled Turning Hindsight into Foresight: The Colorado River at a Crossroads gathered attorneys, government officials, tribal leaders, NGO representatives, students, filmmakers, and academics to reflect on the successes and failures of the past to facilitate a discussion of how to better manage the Colorado River in the future.

In August, Professor Adam Sopko will join the Colorado Law Faculty as Associate Professor. In this interview, Adam shares more about his work, the inspiration behind it, and some of her career accomplishments so far.

In August, Professor Ann M. Lipton will join the Colorado Law Faculty as Professor of Law  and Laurence W. DeMuth Chair of Business Law. In this interview, Professor Lipton shares more about her work, the inspiration behind it, and some of her career accomplishments so far. 

On June 24 and 25, Silicon Flatirons will aim to examine this urgent question at the inaugural Space and Spectrum Policy Conference hosted at Colorado Law. The event, titled “Challenges in Sustaining Space as a Resource,” will highlight the challenges of space sustainment, and explore technical, regulatory, and cultural issues that must be addressed.

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.

In the United States, law enforcement's use of geofence warrants—court orders compelling tech companies to provide location data for all devices within a specified area and timeframe—is among the most contentious digital civil liberties issues of our time. Federal courts have struggled to apply existing Fourth Amendment doctrine to such searches, and in the meanwhile, a three-step procedure developed by Google—currently the main purveyor of location data to law enforcement—has been doing most of the work that the law should be doing in channeling how law enforcement agencies conduct searches of geolocation databases.

Lolita Buckner Inniss, Dean and Provost’s Professor of Law, announced the appointment of eight professors to Colorado Law’s full-time faculty: Bryan Choi, Tony Derron, Ann Lipton, Jacob Nunnally, Govind Persad, Adam Sopko, Delaram Takyar, and Paige Wilson. 

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.

On Friday, May 9, graduates gathered with faculty, family, and dear friends for the 130th commencement ceremony honoring the Colorado Law class of 2025.