Ferguson Statement
As members of the Denver Law faculty and staff, we stand in solidarity with the families of Michael Brown in Missouri, Eric Garner in New York, Tamir Rice and John Crawford in Ohio, and Marvin Booker here in Colorado, as well as with their supporters across the country. As legal scholars, practitioners, activists, educators, parents, and citizens who care about the integrity of our criminal justice system, we are deeply saddened by these cases of law enforcement violence. These deaths, only the latest in a long and shameful series of incidents in which police have killed unarmed men and boys of color, illustrate all too vividly that our criminal justice system forfeits the lives of black and brown men and boys to over-policing and dehumanization. We pledge to engage our students and our community to understand how the constitutional values we hold dear can find expression in our biased criminal justice system. We endorse requests for the United States Department of Justice and other authorities to investigate these cases further and to implement processes designed to eliminate structural racial biases in our criminal justice system. We dedicate ourselves to combating the issues raised by these cases with understanding grounded in history, activism based in praxis, and a vision of justice rooted in hope.
Robert Anderson
Lawyering Process Professor
Debra S. Austin
Lawyering Process Professor
Tanya Bartholomew
Lawyering Process Professor
Nashwa Bolling
Associate Director of Budget, Research and Analysis, University of Denver
J. Robert Brown, Jr.
Professor
Stefanie M. Carroll
Administrative Director, Academic Programs
Bernard Chao
Assistant Professor
Christine M. Chao, Ph.D.
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Clinical Psychology
Federico Cheever
Professor
Yvonne Cherena-Pacheco
Associate Director of Admissions
Roberto Corrada
Mulligan Burleson Chair in Modern Learning and Professor
Patience Crowder
Assistant Professor
Laura Dean
Assistant Dean, Alumni Relations
Micah Desaire
Faculty Support Team
Nancy Ehrenreich
Professor
Jennifer-Grace Ewa
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Open Space
Interdisciplinary Research Incubator for the Study of (In)Equality (IRISE)
Ian Farrell
Assistant Professor
Lauren L. Fontana
Civil Rights Clinical Fellow
Alexi Freeman
Lecturer
Director, Public Interest
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Visiting Assistant Professor
Linnéa Geiger
Program Coordinator, Alumni Affairs
Rashmi Goel
Associate Professor
Lisa Graybill
Lecturer
Felicia Ho
Career Consultant, Office of Career Development and Opportunities
Brianna Johnson
Program Coordinator, Living and Learning Communities, University of Denver
José R. (Beto) Juárez, Jr.
Professor
Sam Kamin
Professor and Director, Constitutional Rights and Remedies Program
Tamara Kuennen
Associate Professor
Margaret Kwoka
Assistant Professor
Christopher Lasch
Associate Professor
Nancy Leong
Associate Professor
Kristian McDaniel-Miccio
Professor
Viva R. Moffat
Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Andrea Montague
Career Consultant – Public Sector, Office of Career Development and Opportunities
Suzanna Moran
Lawyering Process Professor
Jonna Perlinger
Administrative Assistant, Student Law Office
Justin Pidot
Assistant Professor
Patty Powell
Associate Dean and Lecturer
Joycelin Randle
Director of Development
Paula Rhodes
Associate Professor
Tom I. Romero, II
Associate Professor of Law, Affiliated Faculty Department of History
Assistant Provost of IE Research and Curricular Initiatives
Roderick Rose
Associate Director of Admission, University of Denver
Laura Rovner
Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director & Associate Professor of Law
Nantiya Ruan
Lawyering Process Professor and Director
Hartje & Reese Lawyering Process Chair
Cathay Smith
Community Economic Development Clinical Fellow
Catherine Smith
Professor
Keelie Sorel
Social Justice Program Coordinator, Living and Learning Communities, University of Denver
Mary Steefel
Director, Academic Achievement Program
Judith Stein
Career Consultant, Office of Career Development and Opportunities
David Thomson
Lawyering Process Professor
Kyle Velte
Lecturer
Randy Wagner
Administrative Director, Strategic Initiatives
Robin Walker Sterling
Assistant Professor
Lindsey Webb
Assistant Professor