2014 News Archives

November 20, 2014 — The International Human Rights Clinic at the College of Law successfully represents UW student in immigration case.

October 27, 2014 — Tilman Jacobs joined the University of Wyoming College of Law faculty as the Robert J. Golten Fellow of International Human Rights in the fall of 2014.

October 21, 2014 — The University of Wyoming College of Law will be holding the first annual Spence Law Firm Historical Trial Production on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the College of Law Large Moot Court Room.

October 15, 2014 — Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kite (J.D. ’74) and Wyoming Attorney General Pete Michael (J.D.’85) made a visit to the College of Law’s new Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources (EENR) Law Clinic last week.

September 30, 2014 — On September 30, 2014, Devan Krey argued before the United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit.

August 18, 2014 — The Summer Trial Institute is boot camp for future trial lawyers, and their participation is made possible by a fund established by Judge James E. Barrett, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for 40 years.

June 27, 2014 — The University of Wyoming College of Law’s Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies (CLERR) recently received a $25,000 gift from BP America to develop CLERR’s summer energy law institute.

June 6, 2014 — The Wyoming Center for the Study of Written Advocacy has announced the recipients of the grants for presentations at the upcoming Legal Writing Institute (LWI) Conference in Philadelphia.

April 9, 2014 — The University of Wyoming College of Law houses the only experiential learning program in the Mountain West Region focused on international human rights protection and promotion. Under the supervision of experienced lawyers, Wyoming students have the opportunity to apply what they are learning in the classroom to pressing legal issues in the best interests of real clients both in the United States and abroad in the International Human Rights Clinic.

March 14, 2014 — The University of Wyoming College of Law will be hosting the annual Honor’s Banquet on April 5th, 2014, at 6:00 pm at the Hilton Garden Inn in Laramie. At the Honor’s Banquet we recognize all of the named scholarship recipients in the current law school classes, including the announcement of the prestigious Brimmer Scholarship and the inductees of the Order of the Coif.

February 18, 2014 — This year’s Jessup team enjoyed unprecedented success at the recently concluded international law moot court competition held Feb 14-16th at DU law school.

February 12, 2014 — The College of Law Women's Law Forum in conjunction with the Wyoming State Bar, the Wyoming Trial Lawyer's Women's Law Caucus, and Woodhouse Roden Nethercott, LLC is hosting a Women's Law Summit Meeting on April 4, 2014.

February 7, 2014 — The William T. Schwartz Professor of Law endowment is awarded to a distinguished member of the law faculty who demonstrates a high degree of integrity, professionalism, and scholarship. The professor is chosen by the dean of the College of Law in consultation with the Schwartz family. The professor holds this prestigious position for 5 years, with the chance of renewal if there is continued evidence of high standards of teaching, scholarship, and integrity. The funds from this endowment can be used to enhance salary and to support the recipient’s teaching and scholarship activities.

January 28, 2014 — The Center for the Study of Written Advocacy at the University of Wyoming College of Law has announced the second annual Writers' Retreat.

January 16, 2014 — The College of Law is hosting the Richard E. Day Client Counseling Competition. This particular competition provides students of every level a chance to develop his or her client interviewing techniques and problem solving skills.The competition is scheduled for January 21-23, 2014.