Lauren Valastro
 |
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Road
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 105V
Phone: (303) 735-2168
E-mail: Lauren.Valastro@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Bio:Lauren Valastro is a Visiting Clinical Associate Professor and the Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic.
Her scholarly inquiry lies at the intersection of procedure, U.S. retirement policy, and the resulting tensions inherent in a system serving a diverse constituency with varied needs and retirement objectives.
Valastro serves as Investment Counsel for a Silicon Valley private equity firm, and before going in house, she was a partner at a prominent litigation boutique where she advised corporate clients and litigated an array of complex financial, healthcare, and environmental disputes. She has successful first chair trial and appellate experience.
Valastro received her B.A. from Texas Tech University where she graduated first in her college class. After receiving the Chancellor's Scholarship for full law school tuition, she earned her J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law, where she was a Comment Editor on the Law Review and a clerk for the Honorable Ruben G. Reyes.
Courses:
| Spring 2025 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
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.