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<span>Professor Colene Robinson and Josi McCauley 鈥�06 Honored at the Colorado Office of the Child鈥檚 Representative Annual Conference</span>
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<div><p>Professor <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=188" rel="nofollow">Colene Robinson</a>, co-director of Colorado Law鈥檚 <a href="/law/academics/clinical-education-program" rel="nofollow">Clinical Program</a>, and <a href="https://coloradochildrep.org/meet-an-ocr-attorney/name/josi-mccauley/" rel="nofollow">Josi McCauley</a> 鈥�06 each received awards at the 2022 <a href="https://coloradochildrep.org/" rel="nofollow">Colorado Office of the Child鈥檚 Representative</a> (OCR) Annual Conference, held on September 12 and 13.</p><p>
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Professor Robinson was named the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Child Representation Award. This award is given to an attorney who 鈥渉as demonstrated extreme generosity and support for other OCR attorneys, whether it is taking the time to answer questions on the listserv, sharing motions and trial notebooks, or simply taking time to discuss a complicated case.鈥�<p>鈥淧rofessor Robinson is so deserving of this award,鈥� remarked fellow clinical law professor <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=193" rel="nofollow">Ann England</a>. 鈥淪he has spent her entire career working to improve and strengthen the representation for abused and neglected children. Her work as a lawyer, then in policy and now as a professor has made concrete and lasting changes for our most vulnerable people in society.鈥� </p><p>Professor Robinson鈥檚 nomination extolls her contributions to the legal community describing how she 鈥渉as been a cornerstone of attorney support and mentoring for more than 15 years in Colorado.鈥�</p><p>Professor Robinson鈥檚 teaching and scholarship center on child welfare and juvenile delinquency. In addition to her work co-directing the law school鈥檚 Clinical Program, she directs the <a href="/law/academics/clinics/juvenile-and-family-law-clinic" rel="nofollow">Juvenile and Family Law Clinic</a>, through which students represent children and parents in child welfare cases and youth in delinquency and truancy matters. She also co-directs the <a href="/law/academics/areas-study/juvenile-and-family-law-program" rel="nofollow">Juvenile and Family Law Program</a> (JFLP).</p><p>
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Before joining Colorado Law, Professor Robinson represented children and families throughout Colorado and New York City. She was recognized as one of 10 national Civitas Childlaw Scholars and completed her law school education in a specialized program for child advocates at Loyola University Law School in Chicago. After clerking for the Connecticut State Supreme Court, she worked in New York City Legal Aid Society's Juvenile Rights Division. She moved to Colorado to become the Program Director of the National Association of Counsel for Children and directed the NACC Resource Center.<p>鈥淧rofessor Robinson is tireless in her pursuit of justice,鈥� said Professor England. 鈥淐olorado Law and its students are lucky to have such star.鈥�</p><p>Josi McCauley, a 2006 graduate of the law school, was awarded the Covino Advocate of the Year Award. This award recognizes an attorney who demonstrates exceptional advocacy skills, integrity, and compassion in their representation of children.</p><p>McCauley鈥檚 nomination describes how she has 鈥渄edicated her legal career to advancing the rights of children at both the trial and appellate levels and has emerged as a true leader in this area of the law.鈥� The nomination eloquently outlines how McCauley holds herself to the highest standards and 鈥渄emonstrates the utmost diligence, professionalism, and compassion.鈥�</p><p>A dedicated children鈥檚 rights advocate, McCauley has devoted her career to advocacy on behalf of the most vulnerable members of society and to the moral obligations she sets for herself in the practice of juvenile law. McCauley was herself a student in the Juvenile and Family Law Clinic the first year it was offered at Colorado Law. She now practices in the 8th Judicial District of Colorado.
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<p>鈥淚 am thrilled to offer my heartiest congratulations to Professor Robinson and Josi McCauley. It is wonderful to see two members of our law school family receive such well-deserved acknowledgement,鈥� said law school Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss. 鈥淏oth of these star lawyers have made an enormous impact protecting the interests and lives of our state鈥檚 children and families. We couldn鈥檛 be prouder.鈥�</p></div>
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<div>Professor Colene Robinson, co-director of Colorado Law鈥檚 Clinical Program, and Josi McCauley 鈥�06 each received awards at the 2022 Colorado Office of the Child鈥檚 Representative (OCR) Annual Conference, held on September 12 and 13.</div>
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<div><p>The <a href="/law/research/byron-white-center" rel="nofollow">Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law</a> celebrated its eleventh annual <a href="/law/research/byron-white-center/constitution" rel="nofollow">Constitution Day Project</a> this September. Each year, volunteers teach challenging constitutional questions in Colorado high schools to commemorate the 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution. </p><p>This year鈥檚 Constitution Day curriculum covered the right to privacy and offered students the opportunity to discuss same-sex and interracial marriage, the right to contraception, and the recent Dobbs decision. 鈥淲e hope high school students will think about how the Constitution impacts their lives, often in ways they never realized. This year鈥檚 topic is particularly poignant not just for youth but for everyone 鈥� how and why should our private lives be subjected to government intervention?鈥� commented the Project鈥檚 manager and co-director of Colorado Law's Clinical Programs, Professor <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=188" rel="nofollow">Colene Robinson</a>. </p><p>
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This year over thirty student and attorney volunteers signed up to teach. Volunteers worked with more than 400 students in schools across the Front Range. Teachers were excited for students to discuss privacy issues with members of the legal community.<blockquote><p>One teacher shared that, after Constitution Day, one of her students and the student鈥檚 father 鈥渉ad a conversation about the topic and, [despite coming] from very different perspectives,鈥� they were able to 鈥渉ave a conversation that was based in facts鈥� as a result of the lesson. </p></blockquote><p>Students 鈥渞eally enjoyed the topic and left feeling like they better understood the issue and the stakes of what could happen in the future,鈥� reported another teacher. Volunteers were impressed by how much students already knew about the Constitution and by their thoughtful questions.</p><p>The Center has expressed gratitude to this year's volunteers, whose 鈥渄edication to bringing the Constitution alive in high school classrooms allows us to have these hard conversations,鈥� added Professor Robinson. </p><p>The Byron R. White Center's director, Professor <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=884" rel="nofollow">Suzette Malveaux</a> remarked, 鈥淭his kind of civic education and engagement is critical to our democracy.鈥�</p><p>If you are interested in getting involved with next year鈥檚 Constitution Day Project, please fill out this form: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoEcyLiWsdEZJYacOmbcDlXJ_ptR4ikJ4YrARqDYNujZgXUg/viewform" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/H2qTZTSAunUejy5m6</a>.</p></div>
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<div>The Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law celebrated its eleventh annual Constitution Day Project this September. Each year, volunteers teach challenging constitutional questions in Colorado high schools to commemorate the 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution. </div>
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The <a href="https://colorado.edu/law/academics/clinical-education-program" rel="nofollow">Colorado Law Clinical Program</a> is welcoming new leadership for the 2022-23 academic year鈥擯rofessors <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=188" rel="nofollow">Colene Robinson</a> and <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=373" rel="nofollow">Violeta Chapin</a> will serve as co-directors.<p>Professor Robinson currently teaches the <a href="/law/academics/clinics/juvenile-and-family-law-clinic" rel="nofollow">Juvenile & Family Law Clinic</a> and co-directs the <a href="/law/academics/areas-study/juvenile-and-family-law-program" rel="nofollow">Juvenile and Family Law Program</a> (JFLP). She has been on the faculty of the law school since 2005 after nearly a decade of representing children and families throughout Colorado and in New York City.</p><p>Professor Chapin teaches the <a href="/law/academics/clinics/immigration-clinic" rel="nofollow">Criminal & Immigration Defense Clinic</a>, having joined the faculty in 2009. Prior to joining Colorado Law, she served for seven years as a trial attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She has represented both adult and juvenile indigent defendants with serious felony offenses at all stages of trial.</p><p>鈥淲e are both feeling very excited to lead the Clinical Program at a time when experiential education is in high demand from students, alums, and employers seeking to hire graduating law students with real client experience,鈥� remarks Professor Robinson. 鈥淭here is truly no replacement for this kind of hands-on participation in the legal system when it comes to connecting theory with practice.鈥�</p><p>The Colorado Law Clinical Program, founded in 1948, has long played a crucial role in providing free legal services to a diverse array of community members. The Program spans a wide range of legal areas including wage theft, wrongful convictions, fair and just access to technology, affordable housing, new entrepreneurship, environmental justice and domestic and international indigenous rights.</p><p>鈥淭he Clinical Program is very grateful to Professor Deborah Cantrell, our previous director, who excelled at managing the myriad practice and logistical issues of running nine Clinics,鈥� says Professor Chapin. 鈥淪he wisely and consistently emphasized the importance of clinical teaching and education for our students, advocating for the program as zealously as she advocates for her clients.鈥�</p><p>
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Professor <a href="https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=262" rel="nofollow">Deborah Cantrell</a>鈥攚ho will continue her work teaching the Sustainable Community Development Clinic鈥攋oined the Colorado Law faculty in 2007. Before coming to the Centennial State, Professor Cantrell served as a Senior Lecturer of Law, Research Scholar, and Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School, ran a regional anti-poverty law program in California, and supervised a statewide direct legal aid program for the rural elderly in New Mexico.<p>Professor Cantrell led the Clinical Program with great dedication for 16 years. During her tenure, the Clinical Program鈥檚 capacity to serve our Colorado communities markedly grew, including supporting the launch of the <a href="/law/academics/clinics/samuelson-glushko-technology-law-policy-clinic" rel="nofollow">Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic</a>, and envisioning and creating the <a href="/law/academics/clinics/sustainable-community-development-clinic" rel="nofollow">Sustainable Community Development Clinic</a>. Under Cantrell's leadership, the Program organized and facilitated an ongoing learning community among faculty who teach clinical courses to explore issues related to pedagogy, social justice and diversity and inclusion. It also fostered collaborations among faculty鈥攂oth those who teach clinical course and those who lead experiential offerings outside of the Clinical Program.</p><p>In 2013, Professor Cantrell received the Clifford J. Calhoun Public Service award鈥攖he Law School鈥檚 highest service-related honor. Then, in 2020, Professor Cantrell received the <a href="/law/2020/08/24/professor-deborah-cantrell-recognized-clinics-work-advocating-mobile-homeowners-across" rel="nofollow">Boulder County Public Health鈥檚 Heathy Community Award</a> in recognition of her work through the Sustainable Community Development Clinic.</p><p>鈥淚t has been an honor to lead the Clinical Program, and to be a part of Colorado Law鈥檚 ongoing and sustained commitment to public service,鈥� reflects Professor Cantrell. 鈥淭he Clinical Program is a true place of collaboration and innovation. I鈥檓 grateful to my faculty and staff colleagues for their steady engagement, and to the hundreds of student attorneys who participated in the Clinical Program during my tenure and provided thousands of hours of free legal services across our communities.鈥�</p></div>
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<div>The Colorado Law Clinical Program is welcoming new leadership for the 2022-23 academic year鈥擯rofessors Colene Robinson and Violeta Chapin will serve as co-directors.</div>
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