Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Helen Norton
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University of Colorado Law School
Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-5751
E-mail: helen.norton@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
| Educational Background: | |||
| J.D. | University of California at Berkeley | 1989 | |
| B.A. | Stanford University | 1986 | with Distinction |
Bio:
Helen Norton joined the CU law faculty in 2007, and was recognized with the 2008 and 2009 Excellence in Teaching Awards. Earlier she served as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and as the E. George Rudolph Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of Wyoming College of Law. She holds a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she served as Associate Editor of the California Law Review, and a B.A. from Stanford University, where she graduated with distinction. Her scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law, employment discrimination, employment law, and torts. She served as leader of the President-elect’s transition team charged with reviewing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2008, and has testified before both houses of Congress on civil rights law and policy issues.
Before entering academia, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she managed the Civil Rights Division’s Employment Litigation, Educational Opportunities, and Coordination and Review Sections, and as Director of Legal and Public Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she practiced appellate litigation and engaged in administrative and legislative advocacy on a range of employment and civil rights matters. She currently serves on the National Advisory Commission for Workforce 2010 and on the Victims Assistance and Law Enforcement Board for Colorado’s 20th Judicial District. She previously served as co-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law’s Equal Employment Opportunity Committee and Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Profession, co-chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights’ Employment Task Force, volunteer attorney for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, board member for the National Employment Law Project, and President of the YWCA of the National Capital Area.
Articles
| Constraining Public Employee Speech: Government’s Control of Its Workers’ Speech to Protect Its Own Expression, 59 Duke L.J. 1 (2009). |
| The Measure of Government Speech: Identifying Expression’s Source, 88 Boston University L. Rev. 587 (2008). |
| Government Workers and Government Speech,, 7 First Amendment L. Rev. 75 (2008). |
| Re-Shaping Federal Jurisdiction: Congress’ Latest Challenge to Judicial Review, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1003 (2006). |
| Stepping Through Grutter’s Open Doors: What the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases Mean for Race-Conscious Government Decisionmaking, 78 Temple L. Rev. 543 (2005). |
| Not for Attribution: Government’s Interest in Protecting the Integrity of Its Own Expression, 37 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1317 (2004). |
| You Can’t Ask (or Say) That: The First Amendment Implications of Civil Rights Restrictions on Decisionmaker Speech, William & Mary Bill of Rights. J. 727 (2003). |
| What Bush v. Gore Means for Elections in the 21st Century, Wyoming L. Rev. 419 (2002). |
Congressional Testimony
| The Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Testimony before the United States House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (February 2008) (2008). |
| The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (September 2007) (2007). |
| The Civil Rights Division’s Title VII Enforcement Record, Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Department of Justice Oversight Hearing (June 2007) (2007). |
Courses:
| Spring 2010 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-803 |
| Spring 2010 | Employment Discrimination | LAWS 7541-001 |
| Spring 2009 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-804 |
| Spring 2009 | Antidiscrimination and First Amendment | LAWS 8035-001 |
| Fall 2008 | Torts I | LAWS 5425-801 |
| Spring 2008 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-802 |
| Fall 2007 | Torts I | LAWS 5425-803 |
