
Professor Patience Crowder | Community Economic Development Clinic
Publications
“Contracting for Complexity: Collective Impact Agreements in Community Economic Development,” 26(1) Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 63 (Symposium) (2017).

Denver Law’s Legal Externship Program continues to thrive. Overall, our students contributed more than 52,000 hours of work in the field during the Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters. These two semesters alone placed students in over 275 externships. Enrollment in our program has grown almost 30% in two years and the demand continues. Thus far this year, we have added 80 new supervisors to our team, and we expect even more to join this summer, typically our busiest season.

The SEC appointed a host of people, including University of Denver Sturm College of law professor Jay Brown, to their PCAOB board. Read more...

The University of Denver Sturm College of Law's Professor Justin Pidot pursues a case defending several Native American tribes in response to President Trumps unlawful action that abolishes a national monument of major historic and scientific importance. His case rest on the grounds that this would breach the United States Constitution and the Antiquities Act of 1906. Read more...

University of Denver Sturm College of Law Schools Associate Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández writes an opinion piece for the New York Times regarding how ICE arrests undermine democratic values. Read more...

Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law Eli Wald recognized as one of the “Drivers for Change in Legal Services” by the International Bar Association. Read more...

A recent gathering marked the 30th anniversary of Denver Law’s Natural Resources Practitioner in Residence program, a capstone seminar taught each year by a prominent natural resources law lawyer. Each of the program’s 30 practitioners have had extensive experience in energy, resources or environmental law work. Founded in 1988 by Jan Laitos, John A. Carver Jr. Professor of Law, the seminar provides students an unparalleled opportunity to learn the state of the art of resources practice. The practitioner for the 2018 seminar will be Robert Randall, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.

University of Denver Sturm College of Law Professor Catherine Smith contributes to Supreme Court amicus brief for the Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD, et al v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Read more...