Denver Law’s Emerging Legal Scholars Initiative (ELSI) sponsors travel to legal scholarship conferences for scholars seeking to enter the legal academic. Recipients of ELSI travel grants attend panels on how to enter the legal teaching job market, network with members of the profession, and present works-in-progress.
ELSI Scholars Waris Husain , Adjunct Professor at Howard University Law School, and Darin Johnson, Chief of Staff in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Middle East Transitions, attended the 2014 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, hosted by the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.