Options to attend in-person, via livestream, or on-demand.听
The University of Colorado Law School's Mini Law School will enter its twelfth season this fall, with sessions featuring the school鈥檚 new faculty members from across the country.听
Modeled after the popular Mini Med School at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado Law鈥檚 Mini Law School is designed to educate non-lawyers and help them better understand some of today鈥檚 most critical legal issues.听
This popular eight-week program provides an excellent lifelong learning opportunity for the Boulder community 鈥� and for participants across the country. The series kicks off on Sept. 6, with Associate Professor Blake Reid presenting on big tech and section 230. Each week, participants will hear from a new Colorado Law professor on a different topic, including:聽
路 States as Immigration Battlegrounds (Professor Deep Gulasekaram)听
路 Foreign Policy and Criminal Prosecution (Professor Wadie Said)听
路 Digital Technologies and Human Rights: Friends, Foes, or Frenemies? (Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy)听
路 National Security as Police Power (Associate Professor of Law聽Maryam Jamshidi)听
路 The Contagiousness of Police Violence (Professor Daria Roithmayr)听
Participants will have the option of attending the lectures in person, watching the live televised lectures remotely, or viewing a recording of the lecture on-demand.听
鈥淢ini Law School provides a superb foundation for exploring topics that focus on the most critical aspects of the legal system today,鈥� one participant stated in an anonymous review of the program. 鈥淪tudents of law or any related field stand to benefit greatly from this condensed and fast-paced introduction into the legal fields impacting us today at local, national, and international levels."聽
Registration is open now. Discounts are available for CU faculty, staff, and students; high school students; and K-12 teachers and administrators. Registrations are accepted on a first-come basis. For more information about the program, please email mini-law@colorado.edu or visit the program webpage.听
Key details聽
When: 6 - 7:30 p.m., Sept. 6 to Oct.18聽
Where: Wittemyer Courtroom at the Wolf Law Building on the Boulder campus. Livestream and on-demand viewing options are also available.听
Cost: Registration is $200 for the entire series.