Professor Courselle's Presentations

CLE Presentations

Wyoming Public Defenders, “Ethical Dilemmas for Public Defenders,” December 2013, Casper, WY 

Wyoming State Bar Conference, “Eyewitness Identifications,” (with Jennifer Thompson and Katie Monroe (Rocky Mountain Innocence Center)), September 2011

Wyoming State Bar Conference, “How Reliable is this Evidence?  Lessons From Exonerations and the National Academy of Sciences,” September 2009

Wyoming CLE program, “Current Issues in Criminal Law,” October 2005

Wyoming CLE program, “Military Tribunals,” February 2002

Wyoming State Public Defender Conference, Sheridan, WY, “Preserving the Record, Remaining Persuasive,” (with Professor Leila D=Aquin), Fall 2001

Wyoming CLE program, panel member, “The Changing Landscape of Criminal Litigation: Retrospect and Prospect,” October 2000

International Education Presentations

University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Criminal Justice Seminar “Can Judicial Discretion in Sentencing Work? Lessons from the U.S. and Ireland,” April 2008

University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Criminal Justice Seminar, “Recent Developments in U.S. Sentencing Law,” March 2007

Presentations

National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts, Panelist, “Challenges for Low-Income Populations in the Criminal Justice System,” June 2014, Cody, WY

UW Federalist Society, “Mass Incarceration,” commenter, February 2013

Law and Literature Conference, “True Stories: The Appellant's Statement of Facts in a Criminal Appeal, Telling the Story that Should Have Been Told.” January 2013, Laramie, WY

Mountain West Clinics Conference, “Teaching Collaboration Through Modeling,” group facilitator with Dona Playton, Albuquerque, NM October 2012

Ohio Public Defenders, Appellate Defender Training, faculty member and presenter, “Integrating Facts and Legal Argument,” March 2014, October 2011

Northwest Clinics Conference, “Storytelling and Narrative: What is it and How Can We Use It in Our Advocacy?” (panel member), October 2011 

Wyoming Public Defender Conference, “Case Proceedings and Pleadings,” (presentation for support staff), September 2012, September 2011

Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, “True Stories – The Appellant’s Statement of Facts in a Criminal Appeal, Telling The Story That Should Have Been Told,” July 2011

National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, Appellate Defender Training, faculty member and presenter; “Transforming the Facts into a Persuasive Story,” “Persuasive Oral Argument,” “Strategies for Effective Oral Argument,” January 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, December 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, November 2001

University of Wyoming College of Law, Law Week, “Impacts of the BP Spill on the Cultures of the Louisiana Gulf Coast,” October 2010

University of Wyoming Shepard Symposium: “The Untold Story:  The Vanishing Louisiana Coastal Wetlands and its Impacts on Race, Class, and Culture Across South Louisiana, April 2010

Northwest Clinical Law Conference, University of Montana, “Supervising and Editing Students’ Written Work,” September 2009

University of Wyoming College of Law, Contemporary Issues in Sentencing and Punishment Panel, “A Comparative Approach to Addressing Increased Incarceration Rates,” September 2009

Wyoming Municipal Court Judges Conference, “Working with Pro Se Litigants,” May 2009

University of Wyoming College of Law, “Convicting the Innocent: The Causes and Consequences of Wrongful Conviction,” April 2009

University of Wyoming College of Law, “Racial Profiling,” February 2009

University of Wyoming College of Law, “Oral Argument,” April 2006

Symposium on State and Federal Sentencing Since United States v. Booker, “Slouching toward Booker and Beyond,” University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, March 2006

Wyoming Municipal Court Judges Conference, “Recent Developments in Criminal Law,” May 2004

University of Wyoming College of Law, Law Week, “Contemporary Death Penalty Issues,” October 2003

Wyoming Public Television, discussion of issues related to detention of U.S. citizens as “unlawful combatants,” Summer 2002

Rocky Mountain Clinical Teachers Conference, Estes Park, CO, “The Effect of Place on Practice,” October 2001

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