Lolita Buckner Inniss
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Road
Wolf Law Building Room 323
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 323C
E-mail: lawdean@colorado.edu
Lolita Buckner Inniss is the 17th dean, the second woman dean, and the first Black dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where she is also Provost's Professor of Law and an affiliate of the Center for African & African American Studies. As Dean she has worked to broaden access and equity for students, has filled vital teaching needs by hiring one of the most accomplished and largest cohorts of faculty in the history of Colorado Law, and has shepherded one of the largest clinical gifts in the history of the school. She received her A.B. from Princeton University, her J.D. from UCLA, and earned an LL.M. with Distinction and a Ph.D. in law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Canada. Her current areas of research are legal history and property law. A highly regarded leader and scholar with a prominent national and international voice in her fields, Dean Inniss is an elected member of the American Law Institute, Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Women in Legal Education section, a member of the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) board of directors and an advisor to the LSAC Investment Committee, as well as a member of the AALS Deans' Steering Committee. She is the author of scores of articles and essays, and of the prize-winning legal history book The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson (Fordham University Press, 2020). She is also the co-author and editor of the forthcoming book Social Movements and the Law (with Bridget Crawford) (University of California Press, 2024).
Forthcoming
| Talking About Black Lives Matter and #Metoo, (with Bridget Crawford) (University of California Press, forthcoming 2024). |
| 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, forthcoming 2024). |
Published Books
| 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
| 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). |