Justice Melissa Hart
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
E-mail: melissa.hart@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
| Educational Background: | |||
| J.D. | Harvard Law School | 1995 | magna cum laude |
| B.A. | Harvard-Radcliffe College | 1991 | cum laude |
In 2018, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper named University of Colorado Law School Professor Melissa Hart to the Colorado Supreme Court. Hickenlooper said Hart is "without question a brilliant legal mind" and called her appointment "a great opportunity for Colorado."
Prior to being appointed to the court, Hart devoted her teaching and scholarship to employment discrimination, access to justice, and constitutional law. She has been teaching at the University of Colorado Law School since 2000 and served as director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law from 2010-2018.
A 1995 graduate of Harvard Law School, Hart clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Hart practiced law for several years in Washington, D.C., including as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, before becoming an educator.
Courses:
| Fall 2025 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Spring 2025 | Employment Discrimination | LAWS 7541-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2023 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2022 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2021 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2020 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2019 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Poverty Law | LAWS 7515-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Poverty Law | LAWS 7515-902 |
| Fall 2018 | Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project | LAWS 7285-801 |
| Spring 2018 | Seminar: Access to Justice?: The Provision of Legal Services for Middle- and Low-Income People | LAWS 8785-801 |
| Fall 2017 | Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project | LAWS 7285-001 |
| Fall 2017 | Poverty Law | LAWS 7515-801 |
| Spring 2017 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-002 |
| Spring 2017 | Employment Discrimination | LAWS 7541-001 |
| Spring 2017 | Employment Discrimination | LAWS 7541-902 |
| Fall 2016 | Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project | LAWS 7285-001 |
| Fall 2016 | Seminar: Access to Justice?: The Provision of Legal Services for Middle- and Low-Income People | LAWS 8785-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project | LAWS 7285-001 |
| Spring 2015 | Employment Discrimination | LAWS 7541-001 |
| Spring 2015 | Seminar: Access to Justice?: The Provision of Legal Services for Middle- and Low-Income People | LAWS 8785-001 |
| Fall 2014 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2014 | Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project | LAWS 7285-001 |
| Spring 2014 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism: What Kind of Lawyer Do You Want to Be | LAWS 5103-001 |
| Spring 2014 | Employment Discrimination | LAWS 7541-001 |
| Fall 2013 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism | LAWS 6103-803 |
| Fall 2013 | Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project | LAWS 7285-001 |
| Fall 2013 | Journal: University of Colorado Law Review | LAWS 7906-901 |
| Spring 2013 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism: What Kind of Lawyer Do You Want to Be | LAWS 5103-801 |
| Spring 2013 | Seminar: Education and the Constitution | LAWS 8285-801 |
| Fall 2012 | Seminar: Education and the Constitution | LAWS 8285-801 |
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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.