Michelle Penn
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402 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 223M
Phone: (303) 492-2705
E-mail: michelle.penn@colorado.edu
Michelle joined the Wise Law Library in 2022 as Head of Faculty Services. Prior to joining Colorado Law, Michelle was the Faculty Services Librarian at the University of Denver School of Law and Fordham University School of Law. After receiving her JD from Washington University in St. Louis, she was a research fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, earned her PhD in History from the University of Colorado, and received her MLIS degree from the University of Arizona.
Courses:
Fall 2025 | Specialized Legal Research: Selected Topics | LAWS 6836-801 |
Fall 2024 | Specialized Legal Research: Selected Topics | LAWS 6836-801 |
Spring 2024 | Foundations of Legal Research | LAWS 5646-805 |
Spring 2023 | Foundations of Legal Research | LAWS 5646-802 |
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.