CU Law Profiles
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What do you consider to be one of your biggest accomplishments?
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Barbara Bintliff Faculty: Law Library Resources, Library Technology Raising my older son, getting him through high school and into college with my health and sanity more or less intact. |
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Richard B. Collins Faculty: Constitutional & Indian Law Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe (1985) |
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H. Patrick Furman Faculty: Criminal Clinics I'll give you two. Handling capital litigation is one of the most important things a criminal defense lawyer can do. I am proud to have participated in a number of death penalty cases, at all levels from the trial court to the United States Supreme Court. My job now is teaching, and I was deeply honored to receive the teaching Excellence Award from the student body. |
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Clare Huntington Faculty: Family Law, Immigration Balancing work and family. I love both my career and my family. I strongly believe that my work in one arena helps me in the other. |
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Christopher B. Mueller Faculty: Evidence, Civil Procedure, Litigation Here are three: Writing a treatise on Evidence Law, writing student hornbook and texts on Evidence Law; helping Colorado Music Festival find a new Conductor in Michael Christie (and survive the departure of the founder Giora Bernstein); helping keep the Boulder Open Space Department independent by insuring that Mountain Parks merged into Open Space rather than putting Open Space in the Parks and Recreation Department; managing to keep faith with my children through and beyond their teen years, seeing them go forth in the world while yet continuing to belong to their family. |
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Scott R. Peppet Faculty: ADR, Contracts & Ethics That my 13 year old step daughter occasionally thinks I'm worth listening to. |
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Carolyn Ramsey Faculty: Criminal, Legal History, Gender Law & Public Policy Balancing teaching, research, and the rest of my life. |
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Pierre Schlag Faculty: Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Torts My children, Nick, Kate, and Zoe. |
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Amy Schmitz Faculty: Contracts, Arbitration, Secured Transactions Getting this job to teach -- because although I truly enjoyed private practice, my passion has always been to teach, explore ideas, and to do my best to ?humanize? law and legal education. |
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Jane Thompson Faculty: CU Law Library, Faculty Services Becoming a Westerner. I moved to Colorado from Missouri in 1977 and have never regretted it. I love the natural beauty and independent spirit of the West. |
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Phil J. Weiser Faculty: Telecomm, IP & Antitrust Having a baby girl (Aviva) |
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Ahmed White Faculty: Criminal, Labor and Employment, Critical Legal Studies Passing the Louisiana Bar Exam after graduating from Yale Law School (no traditional grades) and not taking a review course (or at least not attending the one I subscribed to). |
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Cindy Gibbons Administration & Staff: Registrar Having two absolutely wonderful and highly accomplished children |
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Lorenzo Trujillo Administration & Staff: Assistant Dean of Students & Professional Programs The successful upbringing of my children. |