Denise DeForest
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 422
Phone: (303) 735-7467
E-mail: denise.deforest@colorado.edu
Denise DeForest joined the University of Colorado after a career as a Colorado Administrative Law Judge, a Colorado Assistant Attorney General, an associate at a large Denver law firm, a member of police oversight teams in Denver and Omaha, NE, and an investigator for such entities as the Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. Senate and the Washington D.C. Public Defender Service.
Denise focuses her teaching on legal reasoning and other lawyerly skills. At CU, she teaches several courses for 3Ls who are beginning their preparations for the bar exam, along with skill workshops for 1Ls. Denise also still carries a torch for excellence in investigations, and she continues to teach investigative best practices throughout the US and Canada.
Denise obtained her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and has a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia.
Courses:
Spring 2025 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2025 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2025 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-803 |
Fall 2024 | Remedies | LAWS 7433-801 |
Spring 2024 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2024 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2024 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-803 |
Spring 2023 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2023 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2023 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-803 |
Fall 2022 | Remedies | LAWS 7433-801 |
Spring 2022 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2022 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2022 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-802 |
Fall 2021 | Remedies | LAWS 7433-801 |
Spring 2021 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2021 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2021 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-802 |
Fall 2020 | Remedies | LAWS 7433-801 |
Spring 2020 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2020 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2020 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-802 |
Fall 2019 | Remedies | LAWS 7433-801 |
Spring 2019 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2019 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-902 |
Spring 2019 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2019 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-802 |
Spring 2019 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-903 |
Fall 2018 | Remedies | LAWS 7433-801 |
Spring 2018 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
Spring 2018 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-801 |
Spring 2018 | Analytical Strategies | LAWS 7350-802 |
Spring 2017 | Advanced Legal Writing | LAWS 6226-804 |
Spring 2017 | Problem-Solving and Writing | LAWS 6816-801 |
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.