401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 461
Phone: (303) 735-5002
E-mail: teresa.bruce@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Bio:Teresa Bruce grew up in the Denver metropolitan area. She earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, with honors, from Colorado State University, and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Cornell Law School. After law school, Professor Bruce clerked for the New York State Court of Appeals, New York's high court, in Albany, New York. She also practiced in the commercial litigation departments of three law firms: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, in New York, New York, The Kobayashi Law Firm, P.C., in Denver, Colorado, and Brownstein Hyatt & Farber, P.C., in Denver, Colorado. She has been admitted to practice law in Colorado and New York.
Professor Bruce has represented both plaintiffs and defendants on numerous contracts, products liability, and fraud cases, including the following:
Contract Disputes
Products Liability Cases
Fraud Cases
Selected Publications
The Architecture of Drama: How Lawyers Can Use Screenwriting Techniques to Tell More Compelling Stories, 23 J. Legal Writing Inst. 47 (2019). |
Terrorism du Jour: How the Trayvon Martin Case Exposes an Endemic Regime of Fear That Keeps Black Males and Females of All Colors in a State of Subjugation, 21 UCLA Women?s L.J. 1 (Spring 2014). |
In the Language of Pictures: How Copyright Law Fails to Adequately Account for Photography, 115 W. Va. L. Rev. 93 (2012). |
Pornophobia, Pornophilia, and the Need for a Middle Path, 5 Am. U. J. Gender & L. 393 (1997). |
Doing the Nasty: An Argument for Bringing Same-Sex Erotic Conduct Back into the Courtroom, 81 Cornell L. Rev. 1135 (1996). |
Neither Liberty Nor Justice: Anti-Gay Initiatives, Political Participation, and the Rule of Law, 5 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 431 (1996). |
The Empathy Principle, 6 Tulane J. L. & Sexuality 109 (1996). |
Courses:
Spring 2024 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-802 |
Fall 2023 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-802 |
Fall 2023 | Advanced Appellate Advocacy | LAWS 6213-801 |
Fall 2022 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-802 |
Fall 2022 | Advanced Appellate Advocacy | LAWS 6213-801 |
Spring 2022 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-802 |
Fall 2021 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-802 |
Fall 2021 | Advanced Appellate Advocacy | LAWS 6213-801 |
Spring 2021 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-802 |
Fall 2020 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-802 |
Fall 2020 | Advanced Appellate Advocacy | LAWS 6213-801 |
Spring 2020 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-802 |
Fall 2019 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-802 |
Fall 2019 | Advanced Appellate Advocacy | LAWS 6213-801 |
Spring 2019 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-805 |
Spring 2019 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-803 |
Fall 2018 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-802 |
Spring 2018 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-805 |
Spring 2018 | Seminar: Advanced Torts | LAWS 8425-001 |
Fall 2017 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-805 |
Spring 2017 | Legal Writing II | LAWS 5223-804 |
Fall 2016 | Legal Writing I | LAWS 5226-804 |