Nondiscrimination Policy
The University of Colorado does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status in admission and access to, and treatment and employment in, its educational programs and activities. The University takes action to increase ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity, to employ qualified disabled individuals, and to provide equal opportunity to all students and employees.
Qualification for the position and institutional need shall be the sole bases for hiring employees, and the criteria for retaining employees shall be related to performance evaluation, assessment of institutional need, fiscal constraints, and/or, in the case of exempt professionals, the rational exercise of administrative prerogative.
All students shall have the same fundamental rights to equal respect, due process, and judgment of them based solely on factors demonstrably related to performance and expectations as students. All students share equally the obligations to perform their duties and exercise judgments of others in accordance with the basic standards of fairness, equity, and inquiry that should always guide education.
Student Organization Contact Information
OUTlaw, the GLBT and Allies Law Student Group
Contact:
Harold Whipp
President
E-mail: harold.whipp@colorado.edu
CU GLBT Resource Center
Phone: 303.492.1377
E-mail: glbtqrc@colorado.edu
Faculty Contact Information
None
Administrator Contact Information
None
Course Titles and/or Descriptions
- Antidiscrimination and First Amendment—This course addresses past and continuing debates involving potential tensions between antidiscrimination principles and free speech, free exercise, and establishment clause values. Examines constitutional protections under the First Amendment and the equal protection clause, together with an array of existing and proposed federal and state antidiscrimination laws regulating employment, housing, and public accommodations, among other areas.
- Employment Discrimination—This course examines statutory and constitutional prohibitions of discrimination in employment on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, national origin, and disability.
- Family Law—This course will address the legal rules regulating the family, examining in detail the rules of marriage and divorce. The course will focus in particular on how these rules differ depending on whether the family is wealthy or poor, traditional or nontraditional, and self-supporting or receiving public aid. This course will cut across traditional law school disciplines, such as civil, criminal, and constitutional law. We will consider some of the following important and complex questions: What is a "family"? This theme will arise throughout the course as we examine how the definition of "family" varies according to the context, reflecting society's values and policy goals. How does, and how should, family law address nontraditional families? How do race, gender, and class affect family law?
- Gender Law—This course examines the relationship of law and gender in criminal law, education law, and constitutional law, using feminist theoretical perspectives as the organizing principle. Each perspective is applied to cases and materials on such topics as violence against women, prostitution, pornography, and discrimination in education and athletics.
- Parent, Child, and State—This course will examine the legal rights of parents and children in a constitutional framework, as well as the state's authority to define and regulate the parent-child relationship.
Domestic Partnership Benefits
The University of Colorado offers benefits to same gender domestic partners (SGDP). See the university benefits guide for more information.
Additional Information
OUTlaw provides professional, social, and academic support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) law students
and their straight allies. OUTlaw also endeavors to make the law school's general population aware of issues, legal and
otherwise, that are important to the LGBT community. OUTlaw helps students who are interested in working in LGBT law to
explore their career options. People of all genders and of all sexual and political orientations are welcome.
A student has many
possibilities for participating with or belonging to OUTlaw. As an officer, a student may set up future activities, fund-raisers, or
recruiting events. They may also assist in community outreach and involvement, assisting with making national and metro
area contacts. Any member or nonmember is free to simply attend any OUTlaw event to learn more about specific topics, or
they may actively participate in the community by joining one of our volunteer opportunities. Students can also volunteer to act
as representatives to the Colorado Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, the Boulder LGBT attorney's, or the National Lesbian and
Gay Bar Association.
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