Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Helen Norton

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law

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 Colorado Law faculty in 2007, after earlier serving 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. Her scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law, civil rights, and employment discrimination law. and she has been honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award on multiple occasions. She served as leader of President-elect Obama’s transition team charged with reviewing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2008, and is frequently invited to testify before Congress and federal agencies on civil rights law and policy issues.

Before entering academia, Professor Norton 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 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.

Articles

The Equal Implications of Government’s Hateful Speech, 54 WM. & MARY L. REV. (forthcoming 2012).

Campaign Speech Law with a Twist: When the Government is the Speaker, Not the Regulator, 61 Emory L.J. 209 (2011).

Norton (with Danielle Keats Citron), Intermediaries and Hate Speech: Fostering Digital Citizenship for the Information Age, 91 Boston U. L. Rev 1435 (2011).

The Supreme Court’s Post-Racial Turn Towards a Zero-Sum Understanding of Equality, 52 William & Mary L. Rev. 197 (2010).

Government Speech 2.0., 87 DENV. U. L. REV. 899 (2010) (with Danielle Keats Citron).

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).

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, 11 William & Mary Bill of Rights. J. 727 (2003).

Other Publications

Secrets, Lies, and Disclosures, 27 Journal of Law and Politics (forthcoming 2012).

Government Speech in Transition, S.D. L. REV. (forthcoming 2012).

Imaginary Threats to Government’s Expressive Interests, 61 Case Western Res. L. Rev. 1265 (2011).

Excluding Unemployed Workers from Job Opportunities: Why Disparate Impact Protections Still Matter, 2011 HASTINGS L.J. VOIR DIRE 1.

The Court’s Post-Racial Turn, Legal Workshop, Feb. 28, 2011.

Shining a Light on Democracy’s Dark Lagoon, 61 S. CAR. L. REV. 535 (2010).

Regulating Cyberharassment: Some Thoughts on Sexual Harassment 2.0, 87 DENV. U. L. REV. ONLINE 11 (2010).

Constraining Public Employee Speech, Legal Workshop, Oct. 19, 2009.

Government Workers and Government Speech,, 7 First Amendment L. Rev. 75 (2008).

The Antidiscrimination Law Implications of Excluding Reproductive Technologies from Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, 8 EMP. RTS. & EMP. POL’Y J. 523 (2004).

What Bush v. Gore Means for Elections in the 21st Century, 2 Wyoming L. Rev. 419 (2002).

Congressional Testimony

Federal Antidiscrimination Law Implications of Excluding Currently Unemployed Workers from Consideration for Job Opportunities, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2011).

The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act: Hearing on H.R. 3721 Before the Subcomm. on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 111th Cong. (2010).

The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act: Hearing on S. 1756 Before the S. Comm. on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 111th Cong. (2010).

Employment Non-Discrimination Act: Ensuring Opportunity for All Americans: Hearing Before the S. Comm. On Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 111th Cong. (2009).

Protecting American Employees from Workplace Discrimination: Hearing on H.R. 1431 Before H. Subcomm. on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions of the H. Comm. on Education and Labor, 110th Cong. (2008).

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007: Hearing on H.R. 2015 Before H. Subcomm. on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions of the H. Comm. on Education and Labor, 110th Cong. (2007).

Civil Rights Division Oversight: Hearing Before S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 110th Cong. (2007).

Press, Media & Publicity

The Unemployed Need Not Apply | The New York Times | Saturday, February 19, 2011

Courses:

Fall 2013	Antidiscrimination and First Amendment	LAWS 8035-001
Spring 2013	Constitutional Law	LAWS 6005-803
Fall 2012	Legislation and Regulation	LAWS 5205-802
Fall 2012	Torts I	LAWS 5425-803
Spring 2012	Constitutional Law	LAWS 6005-803
Fall 2011	Legislation and Regulation	LAWS 5205-802
Spring 2011	Constitutional Law	LAWS 6005-803
Spring 2011	Employment Discrimination	LAWS 7541-001
Fall 2010	Torts I	LAWS 5425-802
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