Legal Instruction Resources

   Colorado Law's Anti-Racism and Representation Initiative  

• Colorado Law Launches Civil Rights and Racial Justice Certificate, July 14, 2021.
• Anti-Racism and Intersectionality Caucus Presents Findings in First Newsletter, Apr. 21, 2021.
• BIPOC Student Organizations

• S. James Anaya, Guest Commentary: Meaningful Change Requires Recognizing Racism’s Pervasiveness, The Denver Post, June 26, 2020.
• Fall 2020 Faculty Retreat Speaker: Dean G. Marcus Cole, Essay, 'I am George Floyd. Except, I can breathe. And I can do something.', University of Notre Dame Law School, June 8, 2020.

• Anti-Racism Resources
• Ally Dever, 5 Resources for Anti-Racism this Summer, July 28, 2020.

University of Colorado History:

• David M. Hays, The Rocky Road to Racial Integration at the University of Colorado, 44 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 96 (2004).
• Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Home-Grown Racism: Colorado's Historic Embrace - And Denial - of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, 70 University of Colorado Law Review 703 (1999).

Canvas Course on Inclusive Communities of Practice (self-paced).  

Center for Teaching & Learning, Inclusive Pedagogy.  ColumbiaX: Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the College Classroom (edX course).  

Ethnic Studies, Anti-Racism I and Anti-Racism II (free Coursera courses; taught by Professors Shawn O'Neal and Jennifer Ho).  

Jennifer Ho, Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19, Colorado A&S Magazine, Apr. 8, 2020 (rev. July 16, 2020)..

Masters of the Environment, MENV Anti-Racism Statement and Resource Guide.

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement (ODECE), Combating Racism Together: Track Our Actions, Resources, and Messages to Our Campus Community.

Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC), Effective Bystander Intervention Skills: for Faculty.  

   Colorado deadly force policing accountability bill, HB21-1250 Measures to Address Law Enforcement Accountability (introduced Mar. 30, 2021).

   Colorado protest policing intervention bill, SB 21-31 Limits On Governmental Responses To Protests (introduced Feb. 16, 2021).

   Colorado police reform bill, SB 20-217 Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity (enacted June 19, 2020).  

Allison Sherry, It’s Early, But Colorado’s Police Reform Efforts Have Already Resulted In Charges For Officers, CPR News, Aug. 3, 2021.

Jesse Paul, Colorado Law Enforcement Could Use Deadly Force Only as a "Last Resort" Under New Bill, The Colorado Sun, Apr. 1, 2021.

Jesse Paul & Thy Vo, Colorado Lawmakers May Change When Police Can Intervene in a Protest After Summer of Unrest, The Colorado Sun, Feb. 17, 2021.

Denver Police Update Use of Force and Body-Worn Camera Policies, Denver Police Department press release, June 7, 2020.

Racism Is a Persistent and Critical Public Health Issue, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, and Jessica Seaman, Colorado to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis After Push by Agency Staffers to Respond to Protests, Pandemic, The Denver Post, July 31, 2020.