Colorado Law Professors Join Top Law Schools as Visiting Faculty

September 18, 2008

Three of Colorado Law’s professors were invited to be visiting professors at the nation’s top law schools. Professor Phil Weiser is spending the Fall of 2008 teaching at New York University’s School of Law in New York City.  He graduated from NYU in 1994 and is returning to his alma mater to teach a Law and Innovation Seminar and a Telecommunications Law course. At Colorado Law, Professor Weiser founded the Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law and the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. He teaches in the areas of telecommunications and information policy.

This fall, Professor Lakshman Guruswamy is visiting the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. He is on a research sabbatical to investigate issues surrounding energy justice. At Colorado Law, Professor Guruswamy teaches International Law, International Environmental Law, and U.S. Environmental Law, and is widely published in these subjects in legal and scientific journals and is also the Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Security.

Professor Laura Spitz is visiting Emory Law School in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 2008–09 academic year, and teaching courses in bankruptcy and commercial transactions. At Colorado Law, she teaches Contracts, Advanced Contracts, Commercial Transactions, and Bankruptcy. Her research focuses on the effects of economic integration and trade liberalization on transnational and domestic regulation in North America.