Melanie Kay
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Colorado Law and Instructor
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 410
Phone: (303) 735-7781
E-mail: Melanie.Kay@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Bio:Melanie Kay joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2015. She teaches courses on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and ethical organizational and professional culture. She directs the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program at Colorado Law, which helps law students develop strong ethical, professional identities through a variety of programming and hands-on opportunities. Professor Kay also co-directs Colorado Law's Master of Studies in Law in Ethics and Compliance program.
Professor Kay joined the Colorado Law faculty after nearly ten years of litigation experience. She practiced environmental law with the non-profit, public interest law firm Earthjustice in Denver, Colorado, and has also practiced general civil litigation at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco, California and Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell in Denver, Colorado. Immediately after law school, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Procter Hug, Jr. in Reno, Nevada. Professor Kay earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, her M.S. in Environmental Geochemistry from the University of Montana, and her A.B. in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College.
Courses:
| Fall 2025 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2025 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-801 |
| Spring 2025 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2025 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-901 |
| Spring 2023 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2023 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-901 |
| Spring 2022 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-901 |
| Spring 2021 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-901 |
| Spring 2020 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Spring 2019 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-904 |
| Spring 2018 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-802 |
| Spring 2018 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-002 |
| Fall 2017 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-002 |
| Fall 2017 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-802 |
| Fall 2017 | Ethical Organizations and Professionals | LAWS 9003-901 |
| Spring 2017 | Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Creative Problem Solving | LAWS 5203-801 |
| Spring 2017 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-905 |
| Fall 2016 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-002 |
Our Vision
With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.