Lolita Buckner Inniss
Dean and Provost's Professor of Law
Published Books
| Social Movements and the Law, (with Bridget Crawford) (University of California Press, 2024). |
| The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson, (Fordham University Press, 2020). A scholarly review is available at Humanities and Social Sciences Online. |
Articles
| Abortion Law as Protection Narrative, 101 Oregon Law Review, 213 (Lead article, 2023). |
| Expanding the Boundaries of Knowledge About Slavery and Its Legacy, 94 Colorado Law Review 381 (Invited author, 2023). |
| Should I Stay or Should I Go?, 26 Green Bag 2D 19 (2023); republished on Taxprof Blog, "The Clash And The U.S. News Law School Rankings: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?". |
| It's About Bloody Time and Space, 41 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (2021) (Invited author). |
| Buckner Inniss (with Skyler Arbuckle), Slavery and the Postbellum University, 74 SMU Law Review (2021). |
| Race, Space and Surveillance: A Response to #LivingWhileBlack: Blackness as Nuisance, by Taja-Nia Henderson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones, American University Law Review Forum 213 (2020) (Invited author). |
| (Un)Common Law and the Female Body, 61 Boston College Law Review Electronic Supplement (2020) (Invited author). |
| 'While the Water is Stirring': Sojourner Truth as Proto-agonist in the Fight for (Black) Women's Rights, 100 Boston University Law Review 1637 (2020) (Invited author). |
Book Chapters
| The Past and Present of Slavery in the United States, in CRITICAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY: ON THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST (Adelle Blackett and Edward Van Daalen, eds., Brill, 2024). |
| Property Law Revolution, Devolution, and Feminist Legal Theory, in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN PROPERTY OPINIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod and Elena Maria Marty-Nelson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021) (Invited guest essayist). |
| Roxanne Shante's 'Independent Woman': Making Space for Women in Hip Hop, in HIP HOP LAW AND POLICY (Gregory S. Parks and Frank Rudy Cooper, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021) . |
| The Lucky Law Professor and the Eucatastrophic Moment, in PRESUMED INCOMPETENT II (Carmen Gonzalez, ed., University Press of Colorado, 2020) (Invited author). |
| Ships' Ballast as an Object of International Law, in INTERNATIONAL LAW'S OBJECTS: EMERGENCE, ENCOUNTER AND ERASURE THROUGH OBJECT AND IMAGE (Jessie Hohmann and Daniel Joyce, eds., Oxford University Press, 2019) (Invited author). |
| Cecelia Kell v. Canada, in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (Hart Publishing, September 2019) (with Jessie Hohmann and Enzamaria Tramontana). |
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.